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Matt

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Enjoy cooking, baking, and gardening. Big sports fan - football, cricket, rugby league. History graduate. Music lover.

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · Jan 1

A year of songs:
I said this morning that one thing I want to do this year is to post more music content on here. So (foolishly) I've set myself a challenge of posting a song each day. To make it harder I'm imposing 2 rules: I can only use each artist once, and the song titles should cycle A-Z.

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 5h

In which case I'll have to go with my second guess... a graveyard 🪦

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 6h

The Reform party conference? It's the most classless place I can think of.

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 8h

Back home, so back to American cooking. Painted Hills Poratoes: layers of red onion, peppers, potato and grated cheese... baked long and slow in the oven with a bit of chicken stock. Served with lamb rump.
Recipe from Jamie Oliver.
#food #foodsky #homecooking #dinner #America #Wyoming

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 9h

I'd cook you dinner every night

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 12h

The evidence would suggest not

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 12h

A year of songs, day 284:
According to Chris Martin, this track was written in ten minutes and was included as a secret track on the 2015 album 'A Head Full of Dreams' as a last minute addition. Chris also revealed the song is his favourite off of the album.
#music #Coldplay #rock #pop

Coldplay - X Marks The Spot (Audio)

YouTube video by GaboColdplay

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 12h

Did you not receive any hugs as a child?

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks

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😭

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

Dinner at a lovely pub in Hartlepool. Couldn't resist the local Teeside classic of chicken parmo (breaded chicken smothered in bechamel sauce and cheddar cheese). Followed by chocolate brownie filled with cherries.
#food #foodsky

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

A little walk around Hartlepool before dinner
#sightseeing #history #Hartlepool

Lighthouse and a memorial to those killed in the 1914 Bombardment of Hartlepool

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

How's he taken it?

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

Mince pies are also in the shops. But I won't be touching one until at least 1st December!

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

That feels too Christmassy for October

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

The Museum of Hartlepool. It is soon to be revamped (it needs it!) but good to learn a bit if local history.
#history #museum #Hartlepool

A Neolithic skeleton found near Hartlepool

A fishing boat and light from a lighthouse, celebrating Hartlepool's fishing heritage

130 ceramic poppies to remember those who died during the bombardment of Hartlepool by 3 German warships in December 1914

A small exhibition celebrating LGBTQ+ history in the local area

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

On board the HMS Trincomalee
#museum #history #navy #ship

The benches where ordinary sailors would have eaten

On the deck with lots of cannons ready to be fired

Down in the barrel store, which would have been below sea level

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

A visit to Hartlepool en route to back home. The National Museum of the Royal Navy is the first stop.
#museum #history #navy #ship

Outside the nautical instrument shop, one of many reconstructed buildings on the quayside at the museum

Inside the pub, where young men would have been pressganged into joining the navy

HMS Trincomalee, which was built in the early 1800s by The East India Company. It is the oldest surviving British warship.

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

Wish I was in London. This looks like fun.

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

Woof!

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

"The living daylights" by A-Ha appears to be missing. What went wrong?

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

A stroll around Alnmouth this morning
#outdoors #beach #seaside #Northumberland

Looking out towards the beach at Alnmouth

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

Far more jobs require a degree these days than used to be the case. Nursing being a prime example.

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 1d

A year of songs, day 283:
I first came across this track on a compilation album my dad bought called 'Music of the Millennium', which celebrated some of the best artists of the 20th century. Needless to say, I immediately fell in love with this number.
#music #pop #80s #synth #PetShopBoys

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED]

YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone

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Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 2d

The fact is that whilst 4% of house sales are over £1 million, these sales bring in around 1/2 of stamp duty revenue. So I don't think scrapping all stamp duty is a good idea at all.

Matt @matt600000.bsky.social · 2d

Feel free