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Oh my gawd, the prices for the Ilaiyaraaja UK show next year are absolutely ridiculous. £500 for seated stall tickets at the Hammersmith Apollo?! (and that’s before you apply the obscene booking fees). The only tickets under £100 come with a restricted view!

20.12.2024 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been to quite a few fairly large Tamil music shows this past year (here in the UK) & I cannot get over the level of commercialisation at these shows. £250+VIP seating, paid meet & greets, constant sponsor shout-outs, logos displayed (& ads run!) behind artists whilst performing on stage. Wild.

15.12.2024 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Eeks the final episode of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is up on iPlayer already but I’m not sure I’m ready to face that quite yet…

15.12.2024 11:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait, did they re-film some of the Anne Boleyn execution crowd scenes, to replace Tom Holland with the new actor playing Gregory Cromwell?! 😆

01.12.2024 15:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That said, even with a lifetime of not eating meat, my carbon footprint is never recovering from this.

30.11.2024 04:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I’ve just ruined long haul travel for myself forever - for *reasons*, I treated myself to a business class flight home from Costa Rica, and oh gawd, now every flight I take from hereon out is going to be full of regret and envy, isn’t it?

30.11.2024 04:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Making the most of the 4+ hour delay to my flight home by rewatching all of Wolf Hall. I honestly could listen to Mark Rylance read the phone book and be content. Perhaps I should line up a few episodes of Bing too, just in case the delays continue.

30.11.2024 01:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sloth in a tree

Toucan in a tree

Scarlet macaw on a tree stump

White faced monkeys in a tree

Ah sod it, deleted those posts because I don’t want to appear like I’m picking on someone or being an arse for petty reasons. Instead, here’s some more photos from Costa Rica (yes, I’m still here!) because, who doesn’t love sloths, monkeys & colourful birds?!

27.11.2024 02:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photo of a Keel-billed Toucan in tree taken from a distance.

Photo of a Green Macaw on a tree stump, taken from a distance

In today’s edition of ‘Just Look Up’, I saw keel-billed toucans and green macaws (all whilst I was lazying by the pool)! Quite some distance ‘up’ mind, so my photos don’t quite do justice to the beauty of these birds.

21.11.2024 21:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Plus, whatever the pros & cons of this place, at least it isn’t Threads! I mean, that place is just plain weird (& not in a good way!) How are there so many people in this world with such strong opinions on tipping etiquette or who don’t realise that US cultural norms ≠ the rest of the world 😆

20.11.2024 02:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Initial thoughts on Bluesky: I do feel somewhat “safer” posting my inane holiday musings/photos but it definitely feels more like a space for keeping up with (both “IRL” & online) friends than somewhere I’d first go to for political/social insight/discussion/news. I guess this will change over time!

20.11.2024 02:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo taken at dusk looking out over the sea from a small beach in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica

Sunset in Puerto Viejo

20.11.2024 02:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very bad, unfocused, photo of a raccoon running off in the distance

My attempts to take a photo of a raccoon were slightly less successful 😆

18.11.2024 22:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Woodpeckers drinking from a banana flower

Yellow pit viper up on a tree

White faced monkey in a tree

18.11.2024 22:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Turns out you don’t need to do much to see the wonders of Costa Rica’s incredible wildlife - you’ve just got to look up 🦥

18.11.2024 22:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Photo of a sign post in Costa Rica advertising “run down, local fud” for sale.

One for my Scottish friends 🫢

17.11.2024 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone know when the endorphins are supposed to kick in? I’m constantly being told the exercise will make me feel good but quite honestly, right now I feel like absolute garbage.

16.11.2024 22:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photo of a beach in Costa Rica

Turns out that a 20km bike ride in the midday Costa Rica sun, when you’ve done sod-all exercise in about 2 years, is a really bad idea but you are rewarded with a nice beach or 2 to lay down & pass out on, when it all gets too much

16.11.2024 20:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I need the number of his stylist. I’ve been nothing but a big ball of frizz since I arrived in CR & this one is just casually hanging out along the roadside, looking like he just walked out of the salon 😆

16.11.2024 12:33 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0