@howdavies.bsky.social
Husband, father, archivist, information manager, cricket umpire, sunny optimist. Not necessarily in that order...
Some art deco in my latest #Blipfoto entry.
Reception at Shoreham airport blipfoto.com/entry/3401159286993192340
Is this instead of the constant tinnitus or as well as?
01.08.2025 07:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This song both describes the process, and is a product of the process. Kudos.
31.07.2025 08:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 31 - free
If you’re free you can do what you want. Like retreat to a garden shed and make your music, push it out there and see. Beware this earworm, somebody needs to cover it and make a hit.
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Day 30 - justice
Eddi playing with you here - this is about what’s NOT fair.
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Day 29 - blackmail
Of the emotional kind.
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As in....they are not geese. They're a shelduck, if they are an anything.
28.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also a fun fact….not geese!
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Day 28 - mafia
Not really mafia, this, but feels pretty close, what with the gunshots and screeching tyre effects and the homage to The Maltese Falcon.
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That is sad news. Peter was a great tutor and opened my eyes to lots of new approaches when I was at King's (astonishingly 40 years ago now).
28.07.2025 09:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 27 - death
This, from the soundtrack to the film Chronicle of a Death Foretold, is the opening Bolero Lento, and just drips foreboding.
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Day 26 - who
Something from The Man Who…that’s what.
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Day 25 - suspense
My own meta-drôlerie means I had to leave everyone in suspense overnight for this anti-climactic post!
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See my new #Blipfoto entry. I proved my age today by banging on for half an hour about Herbie Hancock in his various phases.
Waiting for Herbie Hancock blipfoto.com/entry/3395493145708856306
As of five minutes ago, there is one single return ticket available for tomorrow night’s Herbie Hancock gig at @barbican.bsky.social. Be quick! So pleased to have snaffled the one other remaining return!
24.07.2025 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 24 - disappear
Some kind of meta-drôlerie in the source calendar vanishing today! Anyway, here’s the Screaming Blue Messiahs.
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Day 23 - guilt
Survivor’s guilt: “if I’d have known that the boy was drowning I’d have thrown the kid a line.” is quite the lyric.
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Day 22 - hunch
A hunch is really just a guess dressed up as a flash of inspiration.
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Day 21 - bones
“Sir, I’ve found remains. Bones.”
“Human bones, constable?”
“I don’t think so, sir”
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Day 20 - witness
Wherein Mr Cave imagines witnessing the great tempest that accompanied the birth of Elvis.
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Whatever piece of AI tech or translator was used to produce this piece, it really wasn’t up to the job.
20.07.2025 07:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 19 - victim
Jim tells it.
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Day 18 - investigate
“Looking, looking…”
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Day 17 - vigilante
Couldn’t make up my mind about yesterday’s prompt. Gave up in the end and just picked something from the Watch album.
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Day 16 - police
Remembering Benjamin Zephaniah today. Not forgetting Smiley Culture, too.
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See my new #Blipfoto entry.
Waiting for Madeleine Peyroux blipfoto.com/entry/3391865246011359712
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Day 15 - fingerprints
I believe the Yellow Pages ad “Let your fingers do the walking” in 1970 used the tune of Yellow River. And that is enough for me.
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Day 14 - discover
“It took me so long to find out…
And I found out”
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Day 13 - thief
From the great man now trying to stop our water being stolen from us.
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Day 12 - poison
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