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Andy Leslie
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Wildlife Photographer. Music lover. Folkie but with a lot of rock.

Broad tastes in art, literature and music. Curmudgeon.

Husband/ Dad/ Grandad.

COBOL programmer once upon a time.

Ex-DEC Customer Services
#ThingsFoundInBooks, #BooHewerdine & Yvonne's new collaboration is an album written in response to a notice board in Culzean Castle’s secondhand bookshop

Notes, photographs, old receipts, letters, postcards etc had been collected and kept on the board on the wall among the bookshelves

Recommended
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"Another Place", Crosby Beach.
November 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Thank your god for #immigrants.

RIP Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 1963 – 2016

#GeorgeMichael
#Wham
#Music

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George Michael - Faith (Official Video)
YouTube video by georgemichaelVEVO
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Destructive twat.
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Can I just say that Nigel Garage and his cohorts can all just fuck off?

I can?

Great! Don't mind if I do!
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Meanwhile in 1972... A truly memorable tune.

youtu.be/q7ECmSUD2xw?...
Hold Your Head Up - Argent | The Midnight Special
YouTube video by The Midnight Special
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#Kerning issue
October 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Modern cars have too many gadgets and goodies.

This morning in the Tesco car park I was reversing out of a parking spot and it insisted on showing me a video of a granny getting run over.
October 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Wednesday , we were on the Brittany Ferries' "Galicia" travelling from Cherbourg to Portsmouth under blue skies and on a millpond Channel.

Great crossing!
October 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Reposted by Andy Leslie
👀 ⛳️ 🏌️‍♂️ 🏆 #RyderCup
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Still sounding great after 52 years...

#PaulMacCartney #Wings #BandOnTheRun
September 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#BarStewardSonsOfValDoonican

Latest and perhaps greatest album.
September 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Depeche Mode passed me by completely. I was busy with kids and a lot of business trips abroad in the 1980s.

So, let me ask the musicologists here: what albums of theirs should I listen to?

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Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again (Official Video)
YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I've just plowed through J.K. Rowling's latest Strike novel writing as Robert Galbraith.

The Hallmarked Man entangles several love stories and crimes, as before, I recommend it.

If you haven't read the Strike books, I recommend all of them, acknowledging that Rowling isn't the greatest person.
September 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings playing "Clock O'Clay", the lyrics a poem by John Clare, part of his first collection, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, published in March 1820. The poem is a descriptive celebration of the ladybird.

youtu.be/idSiDLAyATA?...

#JonBoden #RemnantKings
"Clock O'Clare", performed by Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings
YouTube video by Andy Leslie
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September 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
King Kong Ping Pong.
September 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#Trifid / #Dalek interbreeding experiment.
September 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
No clothes in Tesco Carmarthen except a small bargain rail.

I guess they're making room for Christmas.

After all, no-one needs clothes in the Autumn.
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
September 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Once again, listening to one of my favourite tracks on my favourite album of all time.

The lyrics for the whole album are insanely good.

My favourite lines from this particular track (IYKYK):

"For want of the price
Of tea and a slice
The old man died"
August 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM