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Chris Barrett
@mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
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Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover Cycling/Walking Everywhere https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/ Nottingham, UK
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 25d
New Blog Post: Holiday Listening 1 (The Necks In Northumberland). A little look at a record I took on holiday...
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Holiday Listening Part 1 (The Necks in Northumberland)
My last holiday listening piece looked at music conceived for specific locations - duets for musicians and resonant buildings. This time ro...
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1h
Reprisals against the whole country of Norway would be incredibly undignified, even by his standards...
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1h
keep reading it as antifa, which is giving it a different spin.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1h
Alto flute makes its own party.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1h
it's no sex bladder, this
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 3h
I'd give it 10 minutes. I've just dropped a heavy hint to the Nobel committee.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 3h
THE PERFECT PONTIFF DOESN'T EXIST
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
www.theguardian.com
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Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 4d
Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians
Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 18h
INXS Kick. Don't know what I was thinking. So bad.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21h
when you're umpiring village cricket, and haven't got time to change before dinner. #notout
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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 1d
I think they chose them themselves. No weirder than this:
Liz Truss official portrait - crouching and staring into camera wearing weird baggy trousers and pointed shoes
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21h
when you're umpiring village cricket, and haven't got time to change before dinner. #notout
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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 1d
I think they chose them themselves. No weirder than this:
Liz Truss official portrait - crouching and staring into camera wearing weird baggy trousers and pointed shoes
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h
Yeah, I'm not good on day to day interactions, but my creepy castle vocab is strong.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h
Lovely stuff.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h
I find it's better to try and get on with things, to take my mind elsewhere, but I know that's not always possible. Be kind to yourself.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h
Yeah, I'm having a they can't work out what it is phase. Unsettling.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h
bisto will eff you up
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h
Yes, if a bit more gonzo.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
the odd decent pun thread
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
#np Szymanowski - 1st Violin Concerto/3rd Symphony - Tetzlaff/VPO/Boulez
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
Actually, might have been Dave Smith.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
Yes.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, might be a few forms involved.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
I'm begging of you please don't take my bread.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
People got badges, like the sew-on ones you got for swimming distances.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
It got used at my primary school, but not by me. There was an awards scheme for gymnastics - BAGA.
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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d
Nice. I was once sent to his flat to interview him as part of my college course. Students dispatched to meet experimental composers across the capital.
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