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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 10h

Went to see this today. If you’re in or around London and have the time, I’d heartily recommend. It’s a superb show.

Ohio review – spine-tingling folk harmonies and life’s big questions

Abigail and Shaun Bengson meditate on family, faith and loss in story and song, featuring a revelatory depiction of degenerative hearing

www.theguardian.com

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World Soccer @worldsoccermag.bsky.social · 22h

📚 To mark the 65th anniversary of World Soccer, we dived into the archives to pick out some of the most iconic covers from the magazine’s six-and-a-half decades... 🧵

🗓️ October 1960
This is the cover of the first-ever edition of World Soccer, out almost exactly 65 years ago.

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Mattzki @mattzki.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got round to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social’s excellent history of the ways mankind has been convinced the world will end. First three quarters of the book; weirdly optimistic. Last bit; “Oh my God! What are we doing? We’re all going to die!” #conflicted

Cover of Dorian Lynskey’s book ‘Everything Must Go - why we are obsessed with the end of the world’

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 1d

Proper tour this … 💪🏻🤣

Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 1d

What better time of year to spend time under the trees.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

sunshine under tall trees in the park. their green leaves remain for now. hints of autumn to come.

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous

Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 3d

Light & Shadow

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor.

So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

Light and Shadow at Nine Elms London Underground station

Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 2d

This will be good…fact.

Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 2d

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, that’s a microTruss!

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

France’s latest government lasted 13 hours and 47 minutes

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

FRENCH PM LECORNU RESIGNS

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 2d

When train trips go wrong … 🤦🏻‍♂️

doc7austin 🇳🇱 @doc7austin.bsky.social · 3d

New video !
Imagine you buy a ticket on "Treno Turistici Italiani" Rome-Munich, which advertised a culinary experience for dinner and breakfast in the dining car. And then this service is denied. How would you call it ?

Full video: youtu.be/uRRIwg7WVgc

Scam or Scenic Journey? The "Oktoberfest Special" Night Train from Rome to Munich

YouTube video by doc7austin’s DreamlinerCentral

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 2d

This is an interesting thread. It turns out I have countless cultural holes… 😏

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 3d

That is a good thing! Lots of great ideas for future trips 👍🏻😊

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. 👍🏻

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 4d

That looks like a great trip. Another one to add to the ever-growing list. 😊

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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 4d

Just published ...I have a small stock £25 post free! signed email me [email protected]

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David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 4d

Limmy sums up the feeling of being middle aged very well here, I think. Or at least, my feeling of it.
It's not that I don't enjoy things, nor that I don't get pleasure out of brilliant art, music or literature. It's more that I'm very rarely surprised by anything anymore.
youtu.be/5T6omDi0pwg?...

I miss new things

YouTube video by Limmy

youtu.be

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 4d

I was just about to say exactly that - fabulous little number that 👍🏻🎸

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 4d

🤣🤣

Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 4d

Gonna tell my kids this was Fleetwood Mac.

Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 5d

Good grief! 😳

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 5d

Fair point

David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 5d

Occurs to me that since I got my passport renewed in 2020 (yes, I know) I've used it dozens of times, but never to travel; only to vote or go through various "prove you're a sensible adult human being and not a criminal" checks.
Essentially it's just been a very bulky and expensive ID card.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 5d

Sunshine for a grey day. Headphones on!

Episode 270 - Soundscene from Northward Hill Nature Reserve (19mins)

A short but mighty episode recorded in Kent in May. A woodland full of birdsong, including a nightingale.

> bit.ly/LenNtgl

a large tree sloping right over a path in woodland. bright green colours from May.

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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 6d

People who live in London: I’ll be doing a work-in-progress at Top Secret Comedy Club on 10th November.

It’ll be utterly unlike this essay in every way.

thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk/events-listi...

Madeleine Brettingham: Work In Progress - Top Secret Comedy Club

Madeleine Brettingham is a writer-turned-performer who’s quickly become one to watch on the stand-up circuit, scooping a string of competition wins including winning the prestigious So You Think You’r...

thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk

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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 7d

Oh wow.

Frenchbloke @darkoutside.co.uk · 7d

whilst the James Last version is almost surely an urban myth, this version of New Order's 'Blue Monday' is very much real
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJy5...

Ai Xiang Qing Gan Lan

YouTube video by Frankie Kao - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 6d

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

The Problem of Writing Poems
in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

a comm n
pr ble whe writin
p ems in the shape of decid o s
trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t
sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he
oems will begi to shake hemselves
ge tly ntil their letters loos n
d
like leaves, an
they
start
to
float
down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social · 6d

If you remember Reggie Perrin, this is definitely worth your time. Excellent piece.

Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 6d

"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."

I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.

madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...

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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 7d

Cursive and non-cursive.

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