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This is so cool. I'd love to sit and watch the whole thing, the sound is pretty poor but it's a snap shot of a moment in time. The eye of the storm. This is how it happened.

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This is probably my favourite Ryan Adams era. The band, the hair, the look. It all built up to this, and probably fell off afterwards or not long after. The band complements the song so we'll, yet Ryan is playing some distorted lead guitar parts not in keeping with the song but it just works. That was the magic he had back then.

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Over the past couple of days I've been sorting out the attic. It's a job that gets done every couple of years but this time it was in a terrible state. The middle section is now well organised, the Christmas section is also ready to go, the clothes are a work in progress but should be fine once I've sorted what I'm getting rid of. The best part about going through all that stuff is finding little gems that I'd forgotten about. The travel box has loads and loads of memories from the US and other parts of the globe. I'm impressed with myself that I went to that extreme to actually keep receipts from restaurants and room key cards etc and tape them all to a journal and write about it. I'm so glad I did it. It goes deeper than photos can ever get. I forgot I had chips from MGM Grand and other Vegas casinos. Loads of stuff like that. Genuinely priceless.

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Autumn Skies

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Out of absolutely nowhere, the back garden lawn actually looks great. Not everywhere but that's due to work I've been doing in various places. I have to say, this is ALL down to granular fertiliser with a high nitrogen level. It's pretty amazing actually. I'll take this as a big win and use this knowledge next spring and summer.

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Very happy to have received this.

A time capsule into a world that doesn't exist anymore. Doing "the 92" is a bucket list item for me, rather than a long process, I think I'll just get it done over the course of a season in the future (distant future).

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Coincidentally as @ryans had a jam earlier on, I was planning on having one tonight too. Love this song, so I decided to try to include my own guitar fills. As you can see, I don't have much success and other guitar fills are coming in all over the place stealing my thunder. It made me laugh anyway.

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The front lawn continues to look good - I must say my camera has taken it upon itself to enhance the green colour of the lawn, in reality it's a bit more dull, might even give it a feed this weekend.

The tree is about to fully shed. Always gets a nice range of colours.

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In the bleak mid winter...are we there yet?! No not really. But it is looking fantastically bleak and barren in the garden. The evergreen shrub on the left is going to be moved soon as it will go crazy in a few years and take over, I'm going to plant another Japanese maple next to the current one I have nearest to the camera. Can't wait to renovate in the spring, though it will probably get ruined by the boys playing football but we can deal with that at the time. I also want to try to have a flowering pot plant on that patio stone all year round. This one should be in bloom for another 2 weeks or so. Need to do some research into what can come next.

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What an absolutely huge album this was. Flows so well from track to track.

There was something special about TLSP. The magic they brought when they were together.

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Nice to see lots of activity around the Xmas EP with @ryans, I too have some ideas but nothing solid yet in terms of material, however one thing I am working on is quite exciting and it'll be a really cool surprise if it happens. I won't say what it is as I think it would be a good thing just to put out there.

I don't want that to sound more "important" than what it is. Just something fun, and quite wholesome in my opinion.

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I was messing about with Chat GTP earlier on and giving it some daft prompts for my own amusement. I think I just inadvertently created a damn good Strongbow ad for a lads mag in the 80s.

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The gardens 22.10.24

I brought down that tree on the floor yesterday. It's a cherry blossom but the quality of blossom was poor, and it was a bit overgrown and the leaves weren't a very nice autumn colour. This summer I've massively scaled back and simplified the back garden in order to have a good size football pitch. The trampoline is now partly on the patio too as I thought it looked ugly in the garden.

The front is still fantastic. I went to Agrovista to pick up some autumn fertiliser earlier. Looking forward to giving that a go in a couple of weeks.

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This plant has been in my garden all summer, I initially thought it was a weed, but planted it in a pot as it was growing so quickly and the leaves looked interesting. Anyway, turns out it's a chrysanthemum. What a great bloom! A very nice surprise.

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The birds (swallows?) buggering off to warmer surroundings. Making a hell of a racket in the process.

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Bishop Muzzarewa RIP

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