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YouTube video by Dougie Bee Paper Dolls

Sorry for wrong link in previous post (now deleted).
This is my downstairs neighbour’s solo project. I love it (sound up)

Paper Dolls youtu.be/iiLb4CLwqfg?si… via @YouTube

Told it might be a Godin 🤔

Black electric buoys with no obvious conventional pick ups

@stigjones.bsky.social Any ideas on this guitar? Played tonight at the Link and Pin blues session (Woy Woy NSW)
@darkdoorstep.bsky.social suggested I ask you

Absolutely so 👏

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Watching Only Connect from last night. Nomination for Best Team Captain Quote of the series goes Crunchers’ captain for:
‘I love a bit of calculus’

I know exactly what you mean, Richard. X has irretrievably changed for the worse but the richness it used to have isn’t yet evident on Bluesky. I do miss the old days 😢

For anyone confused by multiple red herrings being thrown into the debate on assisted dying this interview is certainly worth a listen. Kim Leadbeater addresses the issues head on with eloquence and logic.

Thanks, Col. I’m still finding my feet here but everything good. I hope you’re OK

Exactly so. I agree there are concerns to be addressed in the legislation. But the need to improve our palliative care provision is not an argument against this law change. It is not an either/or debate.

You are right, Jenny. The various voices raised against this law change (from Gordon Brown to this waste of space MP) all seem to have God in the background. They conflate and confuse arguments, but this is essentially a simple issue: a personal right and choice when faced with terminal illness.

There are few issues on which I profoundly disagree with Gordon Brown. The basic human right to ‘Assisted Dying’ in cases of terminal illness is one of them.

Lose the chorizo 😕

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It’s great. Some of those early episodes are eye opening for me. I think you will know a lot of the artists mentioned but some of the interactions between artists, writers and producers are really interesting.

Yeh I know. I was just being flippant. Anyway, I’m pleased you managed to get upright again. 🤗

Followed this thread, Stig, sorry about your ‘incident’.
At what point do we stop saying ‘I fell over’ and start saying ‘I had a fall’?
Has it to do with age?

Sign outside football ground Annan v Kelty Hearts

Stand inside Annan’s Galabank Stadium with pitch in foreground

Mine too

I know! I’m seriously thinking about going to watch Annan Athletic v Kelty Hearts this afternoon at Galabank. It’s only a 25 minute drive.
Annan manager is called Wullie Gibson, gotta love it when someone opts for that abbreviation.
#NUFC

Blue and yellow flowers and matching motorcycle in front of Kelso Town Hall

Love, Kelso, here’s one from a while ago when they had kindly arranged flowers to match my bike 🙄😊

I know some folks don’t consider listening to an audio book as ‘reading’ it. It’s not a distinction that is important to me. I recently listened (again) to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies on long car journeys. The hours and miles flew by.
If asked whether I’ve read them I will probably say yes.

I bought a memory-foam mattress topper this week (from M&S). Should have done it years ago.
I love it!

What a beautiful start to my day here in the Scottish Borders 😊

Yes, you do look quite young and virile 🙄
Morning, Stig

Indeed! I’ve been thinking about it for a while but I really don’t want to let anyone down and I’m not sure how it might work.

The day is fighting back!

As Rishi Sunak moves us on from 30 years of political failure by appointing David Cameron as Foreign Secretary, surely there must be governmental roles for Nick Clegg and George Osborne. 🤔🙄

Hugs, Judy 🤗

Wall plaque at the childhood home of philosopher Michel Foucault

On a day out in Poitiers I came across this. Wouldn’t it be great if the world adopted some of Foucault’s thinking just now?