More CDR goodness from the shelves. Matt Valentine MV & EE. CoM #2 “I burned one with God but cocola if I’m peaking which way is the sky?”

The only perspective on AI that matters

The new Myriam Gendron is gorgeous (like her others). Perfect Sunday music.

Gastr box-set worth every penny. Lovely stuff.

After work swim to wash off the week. Cant beat that.

Another after-work swim 🙌🏼

That blending of fact, fiction and something in between. Memorial Device and The Shadow Ring.

Swimmin’ in the rain at lunchtime.

Two days swimming on the bounce.

Latest The Ted Hughes Society Podcast: #TerryGifford poet, mountaineer, ecocritic and scholar of Ted Hughes scholar reading a selection of poems from his unpublished 9th collection, and from his superb 8th collection, 'A Feast of Fools' (Cinnamon Press, 2018).

Bob Morley and the Whalers

Roberto Bolaño on why you need poets to rob a bank.

L.S. Lowry sketching Stockport Viaduct, 1962, by Crispin Eurich.

Lovely swim day.

We're moving next weekend (very excited) but doing the agonising "sorting the books into coming-with and going-to-2nd-hand piles".

Clearing out boxes. Date this!

After a mad busy two weeks moving home. Managed a late swim today. 5pm. Just me and the ducks in the water. Felt fit after lugging boxes and furniture for far too long.

I'm done with Twitter now and using the socials less anyway. I'm on BlueSky with the same handle if anyone wants to link up.