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Anthony Pooley
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Inveterate musician
Blog: STRUMpit.org
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Today's bit of advent calendar tat is... a motorized disco ball snowman!
A plastic snowman an illuminated rotating disco ball head sits on a bookshelf casting colored spots of light over the books. Beside home sits a plastic clockwork cat on a roomba vacuum.
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Personally I wear black *every*day!
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Here we go: December 1st, and today's piece of tat from the advent calendar is... a clockwork cat vac!
#CatsofBlueSky
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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"I do Treats. Not ironing".
#CatsofBlueSky #Caturday
SanFran, a longhair calico cat, sits on a countertop next to an iron, looking on disapprovingly.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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For SanFran, "Black Friday" means examining the insides of her eyelids - all day.
#CatsofBlueSky
SanFran, a longhair calico cat, sleeps on a blue sofa next to an orange cushion (she's been there for hours...)
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Frisco, not feeling the urge to rush out and go shopping on this sunny Black Friday #CatsofBlueSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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SanFran wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving* 🦃🍁
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* if you give her a treat...
SanFran, a longhair calico cat, sits on a table staring pointedly at the camera.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Frisco and Nala spending some quality mother/son time behind the sofa today #CatsofBlueSky
Frisco, an orange cat, lounging on a grey cat mat behind a blue sofa, with his mom, Nala, a shy tortoise cat.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Time to break out my favorite Playlist...
#PNW #SeattleRainFestival
A photo of an iPad screen displaying a Playlist titled "A Rainy Day in Seattle", with a header photo of the Space Needle viewed through a rain-soaked window.
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Today SanFran just want to snuggle up and snooze... #CatsofBlueSky #Caturday
SanFran, a longhair calico cat, lies curled up on her side on a red armchair, next to a person dressed in black.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Here we go again - #MeanGirls Week2!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"Give. Me. The. Treats."
#CatsofBlueSky
SanFran, a longhair calico cat, sits on top of a scratching post, starting pointedly and imploringly at her human, who is too dumb to give her all the Treats.
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Here's what the Melody Maker had to say about the show. It was pretty special #TheSundays
THE SUNDAYS' SECOND COMING is so utterly majestic, so unquestionably celestial, so distinctly holy, that it is too good. They are too good to be true. The problem is we don't deserve them. Us mere mortals, with our pollution, our litter, our bad manners, our belches: we are not fit for this — this snow-voice, this chorus, this deity, this love.
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The Sundays - Leeds Warehouse, 21st May 1989
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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SanFran (a longhair cat) had a fight with a strip of fly paper. The fly paper won... #CatsofBlueSky
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Here we go... #MeanGirls #MusicalTheatre #GuitarSky
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Mean Girls the Musical is bonkers - I play 7 instruments and use 6 of them in the first 10 minutes of the show! #MusicalTheatre #GuitarSky #MeanGirls
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The guitar tutor is IN...
#CatsofBlueSky
SanFran, a longhair calico cat sits on a kitchen table, next to an orange-brown electric guitar, with one paw on a binder of sheet music.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Nala is a shy cat, but she loves napping in a sunny spot #CatsofBlueSky
Nala, a shy tortoise cat, rests quietly on a wood floor next to the back of a rattan sofa on a sunny day. Window frames form shadows on the floor.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Pedalboard for my acoustic instruments for Mean Girls. I'm playing steel string and nylon-string acoustics, Tenor Banjo, ukulele and mandolin. This board EQs and switches them all, then routes the signal to a DI, which sends it to the house mix. #MeanGirls #MusicalTheatre #GuitarSky
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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SanFran caught my mouse. No work possible... #CatsofBlueSky #Caturday
SanFran, a longhair calico cat, lies across a desk in front of a computer with a computer mouse between her paws. Under her head is a piece of sheet music, which I'm supposed to be studying...
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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There is a mandolin tucked away out of sight at the back, plus a ukulele. No baritone in this show (although I have one!). I don't have a Tenor Guitar though, and Christmas is coming...
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Playing Mean Girls the Musical - more gear than I have ever used for one production! #GuitarSky #MusicalTheatre #MeanGirls
A very happy pit guitar player sitting on a stool surrounded by guitars, amplifiers and pedalboards
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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In the Pacific NW, beauty is right outside the front door #PNW
The mailboxes outside my house, surrounded by trees in beautiful fall colors
November 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM