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They had the chance to play PIL ‘Rise’ on Pick of the Pops today. Instead we got Double ‘The Captain of Her Heart’.

Roddy Frame - The North Star

I haven’t played this in ages. Now I remember why it’s one of my favourite albums.

In the final minutes of It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey gets to see what the world would look like if it was ruled by a malicious megalomaniac with no empathy and no concern beyond increasing his own personal wealth. Thank goodness that'll never happen.

That looks a great haul!

I’ve been renamed Betty tonight by a patient. ‘Her name may well be Alex but I’m calling her Betty’.

Totally going with it.

I started Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor this morning.

Massive away win for the little fella.

In Warwick it was ‘I Ackie’. Or maybe Aye Ackie. ‘I Ackie I see *name* running towards me, one two three and out’. If you got in you said I Ackie three times.

I LOVE this book. It is next to my bed and if I can’t concentrate on a book I’ll pick this up and dream of all the scents I’ll never try.

Yorkshire Bedtime Tea (all day long), sparkling water (with harsh, spiky bubbles, sloe gin.

*been. Obviously.

Manics

I’ve ben looking at ‘Wicked’ Threads and BLOOMING HECK. And this is coming from someone who ‘sang’ Defying Gravity twice with a colleague on a night shift the other week, just so we both got to do all the parts.

In the interests of balance, we really do need a Liverpool Paul McCartney Airport, and instead of 'Above Us Only Sky' the motto should be 'JET! woo-oo-a-oo'.

And as I went to bed last night I thought NO! I saw the Evermore picture and realised you were asking about Folklore and I was talking about Evermore being the TS album I loved. But I’d still pick Folklore 🤩

Folklore. It’s pretty much the first Taylor Swift thing I listened to. It’s glorious. I don’t really listen to anything else of hers.

I started using a new toaster 3 weeks ago and I still haven’t found the exact spot the dial needs to be on. I’m not even anywhere in the right zone.

I cannot wait to rewatch this (even though I’m out that night). I’ve not watched it for a few years.

PLEASE BE UPSTANDING FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

I’ve just inhaled fizzy water at ‘Ian Cornetto’.

Today I resigned as the organiser of the ward’s Secret Santa. I was forced into doing it every year since about 2010 and hated it. FREEDOM.

Today is my last day in Ceredigion. It was a glorious day and I had the best pistachio ice cream.