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Cape Town Hammer ⚒️

@sjh66.bsky.social

Swallow from the UK 🇬🇧 inhabiting Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦, writer/blogger 📝 craft beer 🍺 enthusiast, West Ham United ⚒️ and Prog Rock 🎸🎹 fan.

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After yesterday's one-sided T20 World Cup semi-final between RSA 🇿🇦 and NZ 🇳🇿 hopefully today's match between ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and IND 🇮🇳 will more competitive #COE 🏏🏆

05.03.2026 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In honour of yesterday's win ⚒️😁 #COYI

05.03.2026 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yesssssss West Ham finally manage to hold on to a lead ... Fulham 0 v 1 West Ham. A MASSIVE three points... #COYI ⚒️😁

04.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We can finish the Premier League now please #COYI ⚒️😁

04.03.2026 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OK, not a great start for South Aftica with early wicket loss. Dodgy catch removing the captain didn't help either. Competitive total, 169, posted in the end thanks to Jansen's 50. Early wickets vital in the NZ run chase... #COZA 🇿🇦

04.03.2026 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watching RSA 🇿🇦 v 🇳🇿 NZ in 🏏 T20 World Cup ... #COZA 📣

04.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A beautiful day in the North of England 🙂

03.03.2026 09:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Woodcut

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify I couldn't resist another (digital) spin of the new Big Big Train album and I have to admit it gets better with every listen 👍 ....
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...

03.03.2026 08:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

Awesome ..... not long until they are playing Minecraft, creating their own world to inhabit 😁🧠☢️ #armagedontime
www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

28.02.2026 13:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weekend Project with new Arduino Nesso N1. My go to with any new gadget or gizmo, a weather station. The program connects to WiFi, gets weather info from OpenWeather API and then displays a summary of the current conditions. Button on the Nesso and touchscreen to refresh or auto 10 mins 🤓 #geeksrule

28.02.2026 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

England v Pakistan at T20 World Cup, England being England and making hard work of a relatively low score by Pakistan ..... #COE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

24.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Having fun with my new IoT device. Not sure what I am going to do with it yet when I am back in Cape Town 🤓 #geek #nerd #IoT #Arduino

24.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Hour Before It's Dark (Full Suites Version)

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Back to the Latest Release thread with 2022 epic AHBID from Marillion .....
open.spotify.com/album/5vyd07...

23.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is a banger to start the album 👍🤘

23.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Favourite track ? For me its "The Old Man And The Angel" 🧓👼

23.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Once Around The World

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify back to more recent times, a paltry 38 years ago for a classic album from It Bites ....
open.spotify.com/album/4mbynq...

23.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Selling England by the Pound (2007 Stereo Mix)

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Back in time after playing some recent releases, a mere 53 years ago ..... more than a lifetime for some sadly ....
open.spotify.com/album/1rZGSW...

23.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I too am easily swayed seeing what others are playing 😀

23.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dominion

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Continuing the "Latest release" thread with 2025's Dominion from IQ ....
open.spotify.com/album/0jGsa4...

23.02.2026 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Widdershins

#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Kicking off the week with the latest from @gandalfsfist.bsky.social ....
open.spotify.com/album/0FyxRv...

23.02.2026 08:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

For me Woodcut is the best release of the year and has the makings of a classic album from the band.

19.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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##NowPlaying ##ProgRock #Spotify Second last leg of today's travel, coach from Birmingham to Manchester ... accompanied by the latest offering from Big Big Train ... 🚎🎶

open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...

19.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Arrived in the UK yesterday after my first day flight from Cape Town ✈️ ... Stayed at the Gatwick Yotel last night in a one person pod, very funky. Very convenient for the flight, right next to Wetherspoons as well 👍 🍻
2nd day of travel, coach Gatwick to Birmingham then Birmingham to Manchester 🚎

19.02.2026 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Off to England for a few weeks visiting family and friends. Not looking forward to the 30C drop off in temperature 🥶🌡️

17.02.2026 12:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One step closer to the DeLorean time machine from Back To The Future .....

14.02.2026 04:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A good days writing yesterday. Currently into the 3rd year of my semi autobiographical story of a young computer programmer from the 1990's. The plan was to cover my 33 years in IT, at this rate the book will be over 6000 pages long. I may need to do some editing !!

11.02.2026 07:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watched "Mixtape" on the BBC iPlayer. Quite interesting story with a few twists, sometimes predictable at times but had an excellent sound track from the 80s and 90s 🎵🎶🎵

08.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Santana I meant :-)

08.02.2026 08:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Santan, Bristol Colston Hall for me 🎸

08.02.2026 07:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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#NowPlaying #ProgRock #Spotify Another play of the new album from Big Big Train, starting to appreciate it more every time I play it. Maybe its the chilled atmosphere of Sunday morning after a West Ham win that makes it sound even better 😀 ...
open.spotify.com/album/5eq5Jy...

08.02.2026 07:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0