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Marc Petty
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Light lunch in the Kitchen @ The Castle. Would recommend ✅

#Whittington #Shropshire 🏰🍽️
Whittington Castle is a ruined 13th century keep in north Shropshire. The Kitchen @ The Castle at, wait for it, Whittington Castle. Pro tip: if you're going to the cafe, you don't need to pay the £2 parking charge, but you will need to type your rego on the screen inside the restaurant. I went for a smoked salmon, cream cheese and spinach panini, with salad and chips. Fresh as, and would recommend ✅ The soundtrack was provided by a random selection by the Beatles, which included some very deep cuts, so ✅✅ from me!
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The Daily Record: if you're going to release an album with song titles like Running Around The White Picket Fence, Smother It In Honey and Maps To Help You Lose Your Way it better be good. This is VERY GOOD. One of the great Australian guitar bands of the last 30 years 🔥

#BluebottleKiss #Patient 🍯
The cover of Patient, Bluebottle Kiss' third album from 1999. Here's an interview from 2022 with band leader (and principal songwriter) Jamie Hutchings on the occasion of the record's re-release: https://themusic.com.au/features/bluebottle-kiss-patient-reissue-feature/IcY5NTQ3Njk/10-10-22 and the album itself: https://bluebottlekiss.bandcamp.com/album/patient-2022-remaster
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
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You’ve gotta be quick mon
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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🎶 It's the end of the grit as we know it 🎶 Bin dereliction at Raven Meadows in Shrewsbury town centre. Sad.

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Shrewsbury #Shropshire 💛🙁
A sad, neglected and thoroughly vandalised grit bin sits forlornly at the bottom of a flight of steps in the environs of Shrewsbury Bus Station at Raven Meadows. Remember people: a grit bin is for life, not just for winter ✊
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I had a trip to #Coalbrookdale Community Centre this afternoon to watch Ocean with David Attenborough at the bi-weekly Gorge Film Club. Stunning cinematography and a profound message of hope for the future of our seas. Very highly recommended ✅

#Ocean 🎥
Film poster of Ocean with David Attenborough. Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge Community Centre, which hosts the Gorge Film Club every other Monday afternoon.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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One from the back lanes of All Stretton
#GritSaltBinMonday
A grit salt bin in a lane in All Stretton. The sunlight is partly shining on it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🎶 Stay on these roads, we will grit - I know 🎶 Primed and ready to provide assistance on an icy stretch just outside Yeaton 💪

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Yeaton #Shropshire 💛
An old-style Glasdon grit bin (I think; it's the knuckle-and-rod hinge that gives it away 😉) sitting on a grass verge in a hollow on the edge of Yeaton, a small village near Baschurch in north Shropshire.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Beautiful skies over the Shire this afternoon 🌤️

#OldWoods #Shropshire 🥶🚴
Herringbone skies over the Shrewsbury-Chester railway line at the site of the former halt at Old Woods in north Shropshire.
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Low winter sun on the River Perry at #Yeaton this afternoon:

#Shropshire 🌤️🚴🥶
The River Perry (a tributary of the Severn running through northwest Shropshire) photographed from an overbridge on the minor road between Yeaton and Grafton.
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The Daily Record: ahoy NZ Indie fans! Here's an interesting curio from the hallowed halls of Fog City Enterprises: Robert the Record by, erm, Robert! Guitar, drum and bass-heavy Post-Punk reigns here, with a sound that's somewhere between the Fall and Gordons to my ears... 1/2 🧵

#RobertTheRecord 🥝
Cover of Robert the Record by Robert. The album, originally released in a limited run of 500 back in 1986, has recently been reissued by Bunkerpop, and more details can be found here: https://www.fusetronsound.com/products/robert-robert-the-record
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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'Blending bin'... 🫣 - Grit Salt bin near Stokesay Castle #GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#CravenArms #Stokesay #Shropshire
A yellow Grit Salt bin overgrown by verge-side plants
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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🎶 I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my... message on a grit bin 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Grinshill #Shropshire 💛
An autumnal, leaf-covered yellow grit bin takes centre stage in front of a stone wall in a grassy wayside verge on the edge of Grinshill village in north Shropshire. In the background, the burnished deciduous trees and evergreens of Corbet Wood can be seen rising up.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Standing sentry 💂

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Clive #Shropshire 💛
The familiar curves of a yellow Glasdon grit bin standing at the top of the holloway leading into Clive village. In the background, a row of old cottages (possibly built for local quarry workers?) can also be seen.
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Hedgerow Cranesbill was still flowering well in the afternoon sunshine on Pigeon's Rough, near Shrewsbury, last Thursday afternoon:

#WildflowerHour #Shropshire 🟣
The pink petals of Hedgerow Cranesbill illuminated by the afternoon sun in front of gateway at the entrance of Pigeon's Rough, a large area of private woodland a few miles north of Shrewsbury.
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Anthony Scully's sumptuous long-range strike was the stand out moment of an open-ended but scrappy encounter from which Town deservedly claimed all three points. A MASSIVE victory and, at last, we finally have parity between points won and games played 🎉

#Salop 💙🧡
Players and fans celebrate as one, as Shrewsbury Town claim a well-deserved 1-0 victory against Newport County at the Croud Meadow. The evocative nighttime scene is illuminated by the new LED bulbs in the floodlights of the East Stand.
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The 4 stages of a new Cate Le Bon album: 1. Hmmm, not really hearing it with this one, but I'll try again 2. Oh, this is interesting, let's have another spin 3. This is good... where's the lyric sheet 4. INJECT THIS INTO ME - I don't want to listen to anything else!

#CateLeBon #MichelangeloDying
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Braved Storm Claudia for lunch with a mate at Rhubarb in the Drapers Hall, and very glad I did! The interior is everything you'd expect of a building that dates from 1483 - and the food, service and prices were just as good. I went for a fish finger BLT, which was 👌

#Shrewsbury #Dining 🍴
The Drapers Hall is a Grade Two, 16th century meeting house built by the Drapers' Guild at St Mary's Place, in the centre of Shrewsbury. Church Street and the spires of St Alkmund's and St Julian's can be seen in the background. Entrance sign for the Rhubarb restaurant in the courtyard of the Drapers Hall. A fish finger BLT open sandwich. Incredible value for £10.50, and very tasty indeed!
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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One of the many old stone quarries in Corbet Wood, its edges having been softened by many years of natural regeneration

#Grinshill #Shropshire 🍂🌤️🪨
An old stone quarry at Corbet Wood, Grinshill in the mid-afternoon sun on a late autumn day in November.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Late autumn colour on the edge of Corbet Wood this afternoon from the track that winds around past Grinshill village to the stone quarry at the top of the ridge

#Shropshire 🍂🚴🌤️
A burnished mature oaks dominates the middleground on the undulating slopes of Corbet Wood. It runs seemlessly into Grinshill, which is one of the most well known of north Shropshire's distinctive sandstone hills and escarpments.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The driveway from Merry Lane to Black Birches in the late autumn sun this afternoon

#Shropshire 🍂🌤️
An autumnal avenue of trees at Black Birches, a country house situated near Sansaw Heath in north Shropshire.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The Daily Record: celebrated Neil's 80th by playing my favourite of his albums while doing the dishes earlier. The musical interplay between him and the Horse on this record is 🔥🔥🔥

#NeilYoung #Zuma 🎂🎈
Cover of Zuma by Neil Young
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A mate recently lent me the DVD of this astonishing documentary by Wim Wenders about the life of Sebastião Salgado. It is, at times, harrowing viewing but ultimately a story of hope that brilliantly details the essential contradictions of the human character. Highly recommended ✅

#SaltOfTheEarth 🎥
Cover of the 2014 documentary film Salt of the Earth
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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It's spreading...

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Cheshire 😯
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An out of Shropshire one. This one was spotted near to the Peckforton Hills in Cheshire.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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🚨 NEW Cummings Your Way 🚨 Dan and Lee revisit #Shrewsbury, shake off their linguistic prejudices, sag sumptuously, then groan under the weight of ecclesiastica - all to achieve sartorial symbiosis amid the cool pink sandstone of #Shropshire's handsome county town.

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Shrewsbury
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🎶 Wait! Oh yes, wait a minute, Mister Postman. Wait! Wai-ai-ai-ait Mister Postman. Mister Postman look and see (oh, yeah), is there some grit salt in your bin for me? 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Shrewsbury #Shropshire 💛📮
This week, we're on Howard Street in Shrewsbury - home to the town's Royal Mail sorting office. Positioned at the entrance to the building we find a faded yellow Glasdon grit bin standing in front of wall, which is replete with a variety of work-related signage.
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM