JohnM
@jm60.bsky.social
#MDANT🎖️🤩
Old, aching and wobbly.
Way back last century I was a Punk Rock Kid.
Now:
A good sit down with any of:
a nice cup of tea
a Kit Kat
a beer
or a single malt whisky.
And some David Bowie.
Old, aching and wobbly.
Way back last century I was a Punk Rock Kid.
Now:
A good sit down with any of:
a nice cup of tea
a Kit Kat
a beer
or a single malt whisky.
And some David Bowie.
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'City Lights Bristol' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
'City Lights Bristol' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt
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I know the BBC are preoccupied, but I've recieved no reply re my complaint about how incompetent the Red Team were on Bargain Hunt (October 26th broadcast). And how they didn't even appear to be taking the game remotely seriously.
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I know the BBC are preoccupied, but I've recieved no reply re my complaint about how incompetent the Red Team were on Bargain Hunt (October 26th broadcast). And how they didn't even appear to be taking the game remotely seriously.
Archive photo.
Circa 1988 with a Commodore Amiga 500 plugged into a Philips portable TV. Probably playing New Zealand Story or Carrier Command.
Collection of shabby plants.
Vinyl collection in the background, starting with the Adverts ‘One Chord Wonders’ Always alphabetical. Still have them all.
Circa 1988 with a Commodore Amiga 500 plugged into a Philips portable TV. Probably playing New Zealand Story or Carrier Command.
Collection of shabby plants.
Vinyl collection in the background, starting with the Adverts ‘One Chord Wonders’ Always alphabetical. Still have them all.
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archive photo.
Circa 1988 with a Commodore Amiga 500 plugged into a Philips portable TV. Probably playing New Zealand Story or Carrier Command.
Collection of shabby plants.
Vinyl collection in the background, starting with the Adverts ‘One Chord Wonders’ Always alphabetical. Still have them all.
Circa 1988 with a Commodore Amiga 500 plugged into a Philips portable TV. Probably playing New Zealand Story or Carrier Command.
Collection of shabby plants.
Vinyl collection in the background, starting with the Adverts ‘One Chord Wonders’ Always alphabetical. Still have them all.
Now playing:
‘I reach a higher plane when I speak so slow and hardly breathe.
They're gonna run out of shapes when they fetch my family.
I must confess I'm gonna see that man again.
I'm gonna turn back the clock and set foot in Kansas’
youtu.be/66m8dZBe02Q?...
‘I reach a higher plane when I speak so slow and hardly breathe.
They're gonna run out of shapes when they fetch my family.
I must confess I'm gonna see that man again.
I'm gonna turn back the clock and set foot in Kansas’
youtu.be/66m8dZBe02Q?...
The Wolfgang Press - Kansas
YouTube video by 4AD
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Now playing:
‘I reach a higher plane when I speak so slow and hardly breathe.
They're gonna run out of shapes when they fetch my family.
I must confess I'm gonna see that man again.
I'm gonna turn back the clock and set foot in Kansas’
youtu.be/66m8dZBe02Q?...
‘I reach a higher plane when I speak so slow and hardly breathe.
They're gonna run out of shapes when they fetch my family.
I must confess I'm gonna see that man again.
I'm gonna turn back the clock and set foot in Kansas’
youtu.be/66m8dZBe02Q?...
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Sunset. 3°C and a cold night to come. A Barn Owl swooping.
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sunset. 3°C and a cold night to come. A Barn Owl swooping.
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Listen to the quiet voice
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Listen to the quiet voice
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#NowPlaying Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound (1979) Nelson hand brake turns his career and produces a fine, frenetic, pointilistic, and definitive New Wave LP. Devo & XTC are all manifest influences. Best track, Revolt Into Style, harks back to his guitar pyrotechnic heroics #MusicSky
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#NowPlaying Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound (1979) Nelson hand brake turns his career and produces a fine, frenetic, pointilistic, and definitive New Wave LP. Devo & XTC are all manifest influences. Best track, Revolt Into Style, harks back to his guitar pyrotechnic heroics #MusicSky
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Greetings from Glasgow. I’m thrilled to be back in the UK for the week. Great people, good food, brisk weather. Can’t beat that!
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Greetings from Glasgow. I’m thrilled to be back in the UK for the week. Great people, good food, brisk weather. Can’t beat that!
I can’t resist a laid-back horse with a golf course on his head.
Okebamba-kun, a laid-back horse with a golf course on his head, is the PR ambassador for Oketo Town, Hokkaido.
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I can’t resist a laid-back horse with a golf course on his head.
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It's Pollen season again.
"This is my story, your story; my shadow, your shadow; my life of drifting air, my book"
On the left: the 1995 Ringpull hardback of Jeff Noon's Pollen.
On the right: our 2025 30th anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Aliya Whiteley and a new afterword by Jeff.
Coming out next month.
On the left: the 1995 Ringpull hardback of Jeff Noon's Pollen.
On the right: our 2025 30th anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Aliya Whiteley and a new afterword by Jeff.
Coming out next month.
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's Pollen season again.
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'Fear of a Blank Planet ' from 2007 one of the very best #PorcupineTree albums. Followed them since hearing 'Up the Downstair' on BBC radio in 1994 #StevenWilson #ColinEdwin #RichardBarbieri #GavinHarrison also guests #AlexLifeson #RobertFripp #nowplaying #DailyVinyl #vinylcommunity #VinylBlueSky
November 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
'Fear of a Blank Planet ' from 2007 one of the very best #PorcupineTree albums. Followed them since hearing 'Up the Downstair' on BBC radio in 1994 #StevenWilson #ColinEdwin #RichardBarbieri #GavinHarrison also guests #AlexLifeson #RobertFripp #nowplaying #DailyVinyl #vinylcommunity #VinylBlueSky
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There were 92,400 Lego cutlasses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. This one was found in August by Laura Dale on a beach near Newquay some 28 years after it plummeted into the ocean.
Photo: Laura Dale
Photo: Laura Dale
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
There were 92,400 Lego cutlasses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. This one was found in August by Laura Dale on a beach near Newquay some 28 years after it plummeted into the ocean.
Photo: Laura Dale
Photo: Laura Dale
Bar’s open!
Cheers Dears! 🍻
Cheers Dears! 🍻
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Bar’s open!
Cheers Dears! 🍻
Cheers Dears! 🍻
Getting a bit parky out there.
Send thoughts and prayers to us arthritis suffers…
Send thoughts and prayers to us arthritis suffers…
a man is covered in snow and says `` i should like another blanket please ''
ALT: a man is covered in snow and says `` i should like another blanket please ''
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November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Getting a bit parky out there.
Send thoughts and prayers to us arthritis suffers…
Send thoughts and prayers to us arthritis suffers…
Sunday afternoon music.
‘Fires on spires and chimneys of black
Fields on horizons with pylons that crack
With singing sad wires of council house mystics
To apply their statistics
And read the tea leaves,
Time knows no limits for days such as these….’
youtu.be/mOS6WmQ_TU4?...
‘Fires on spires and chimneys of black
Fields on horizons with pylons that crack
With singing sad wires of council house mystics
To apply their statistics
And read the tea leaves,
Time knows no limits for days such as these….’
youtu.be/mOS6WmQ_TU4?...
Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape (Live)
YouTube video by Be Bop Deluxe - Topic
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sunday afternoon music.
‘Fires on spires and chimneys of black
Fields on horizons with pylons that crack
With singing sad wires of council house mystics
To apply their statistics
And read the tea leaves,
Time knows no limits for days such as these….’
youtu.be/mOS6WmQ_TU4?...
‘Fires on spires and chimneys of black
Fields on horizons with pylons that crack
With singing sad wires of council house mystics
To apply their statistics
And read the tea leaves,
Time knows no limits for days such as these….’
youtu.be/mOS6WmQ_TU4?...
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‘Condemned to be a stranger
Subway dweller, dead-end danger.
Peeking through the dust of friends
Who never gave, they'd only lend.
Every sneer is thrown away
With practised gestures of disdain
The outlaw stance is so pedantic
Hate the world, it's so romantic
Young savage’
youtu.be/necOxH0vRzg?...
Subway dweller, dead-end danger.
Peeking through the dust of friends
Who never gave, they'd only lend.
Every sneer is thrown away
With practised gestures of disdain
The outlaw stance is so pedantic
Hate the world, it's so romantic
Young savage’
youtu.be/necOxH0vRzg?...
Young Savage
YouTube video by Ultravox - Topic
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
‘Condemned to be a stranger
Subway dweller, dead-end danger.
Peeking through the dust of friends
Who never gave, they'd only lend.
Every sneer is thrown away
With practised gestures of disdain
The outlaw stance is so pedantic
Hate the world, it's so romantic
Young savage’
youtu.be/necOxH0vRzg?...
Subway dweller, dead-end danger.
Peeking through the dust of friends
Who never gave, they'd only lend.
Every sneer is thrown away
With practised gestures of disdain
The outlaw stance is so pedantic
Hate the world, it's so romantic
Young savage’
youtu.be/necOxH0vRzg?...
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Do you ever dream of running away to a cabin in the woods....
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/6388...
#linocut #foresterscottage #printmaking
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/6388...
#linocut #foresterscottage #printmaking
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Do you ever dream of running away to a cabin in the woods....
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/6388...
#linocut #foresterscottage #printmaking
sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/6388...
#linocut #foresterscottage #printmaking
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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What’s your favourite song about the rain?
‘Checking in every morning
To the sound of steam and caffeine
The sludge in the bottom of the cup
Just like the sludge in the stream.
Slag heap keeps growing higher
Every morning the sky, it's on fire
And it's only 9 AM again
youtu.be/lM8vCMJIsuo?...
‘Checking in every morning
To the sound of steam and caffeine
The sludge in the bottom of the cup
Just like the sludge in the stream.
Slag heap keeps growing higher
Every morning the sky, it's on fire
And it's only 9 AM again
youtu.be/lM8vCMJIsuo?...
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What’s your favourite song about the rain?
‘Checking in every morning
To the sound of steam and caffeine
The sludge in the bottom of the cup
Just like the sludge in the stream.
Slag heap keeps growing higher
Every morning the sky, it's on fire
And it's only 9 AM again
youtu.be/lM8vCMJIsuo?...
‘Checking in every morning
To the sound of steam and caffeine
The sludge in the bottom of the cup
Just like the sludge in the stream.
Slag heap keeps growing higher
Every morning the sky, it's on fire
And it's only 9 AM again
youtu.be/lM8vCMJIsuo?...
Sunday lunchtime. Dreich.
Endless mugs of strong tea and DB at his melancholic best.
‘Living in lies by the railway line
Pushing the hair from my eyes
Elvis is English and climbs the hills
Can't tell the bullshit from the lies
Screaming along in South London’
youtu.be/xHPIAFaKd1I?...
Endless mugs of strong tea and DB at his melancholic best.
‘Living in lies by the railway line
Pushing the hair from my eyes
Elvis is English and climbs the hills
Can't tell the bullshit from the lies
Screaming along in South London’
youtu.be/xHPIAFaKd1I?...
David Bowie - Buddha Of Suburbia (Official Video)
YouTube video by David Bowie
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sunday lunchtime. Dreich.
Endless mugs of strong tea and DB at his melancholic best.
‘Living in lies by the railway line
Pushing the hair from my eyes
Elvis is English and climbs the hills
Can't tell the bullshit from the lies
Screaming along in South London’
youtu.be/xHPIAFaKd1I?...
Endless mugs of strong tea and DB at his melancholic best.
‘Living in lies by the railway line
Pushing the hair from my eyes
Elvis is English and climbs the hills
Can't tell the bullshit from the lies
Screaming along in South London’
youtu.be/xHPIAFaKd1I?...
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I recently deleted a chunk of muted words and phrases and goodness me, that was a mistake. My feed was *unbearable* for a minute there.
Anyway, regular reminder that mute is really good here and you can, and should, mute anything and everything that’s upsetting you. There’s no shame.
Anyway, regular reminder that mute is really good here and you can, and should, mute anything and everything that’s upsetting you. There’s no shame.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I recently deleted a chunk of muted words and phrases and goodness me, that was a mistake. My feed was *unbearable* for a minute there.
Anyway, regular reminder that mute is really good here and you can, and should, mute anything and everything that’s upsetting you. There’s no shame.
Anyway, regular reminder that mute is really good here and you can, and should, mute anything and everything that’s upsetting you. There’s no shame.
The single funniest line in cinema history. You’re welcome.
two men are crying in the rain and one of them is saying `` we 've gone on holiday by mistake '' .
ALT: two men are crying in the rain and one of them is saying `` we 've gone on holiday by mistake '' .
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November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The single funniest line in cinema history. You’re welcome.
Sunday night - winding down to ‘Someday World’ by Brian Eno/Karl Hyde.
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Sunday night - winding down to ‘Someday World’ by Brian Eno/Karl Hyde.