Bimbling down the auld Corpse Road with a view to a pint or two... Love a good walk, pubs, music, beer, art, cider, Leicester Tigers RFC, the Sooty Show. https://corbypubsafari.blogspot.com/
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Best Focus album? This was from the auld fella’s collection and the only Focus album he had so it’ll always be my favourite. From the days when bands knew the true meaning of indulgent double albums, it has their best single, and limited yodelling. Focus - Focus III (Polydor, 1972) #Vinyl #ProgSky
Good job there were stewards there to direct us, we could still be in there now 😳 Glad your performance under GAIA went well Annie, helluva venue to sing at.
I totally had the best time with Gaia! The audience were fab, looks like not many but they were on raked seating on stage! Top of the world Ma! Photocredit: Dez
Some chance, we ‘still’ haven’t got the Hover Boots they promised would be standard by now…
Some recent Sculptural highlights. See alt txt for details. #SculptureSaturday
The Shildon Hens ‘are’ the four secret special guests?… Don’t worry Si, I know you can’t confirm or deny.
Lipton exploiting Plants now… Bastards!
Neil Young seemed to think so…
Theme and Variations - Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1972 Cheltenham House, Cheltenham. #SculptureSaturday
Some more from Tipping Point, Corby. @lukejerram.bsky.social
Tipping Point - Luke Jerram, soundtrack by Dan Jones Hazel and Thoroughsale Woods, Corby @lukejerram.bsky.social
Not sure who the singer is but she’s making a jolly fine job of Radiohead’s Creep, and sounds very good from our position outside Paletto Lounge. 🎤
The bright lights and top pints of Corby Town… #BSkyBeer
…and we go again. Strangely confident of the full 500 with this one 🙏
Should be a Hoot! Mystic Mark predicts you’ll be back in shorts by October…
…or singing so well, or dancing so well, or acting so naturally, or designing clothes lines, or indeed raising the seemingly well balanced child of an alcoholic who drank himself to death.
I had no idea she’d achieved so much, bit of a legend really.
The orange arsehole on his way to Europe?
Talking of difficult music, this abstract, experimental album by Edmund Davie appeals to my need for the random, sometimes atonal in music. Not ‘currently’ danceable. oMMM - Parallel Lines Converge (Alien Jams, 2014) #Vinyl #Electronica
This is going to be fun - I'll be speaking at Cirencester History Festival on Saturday 1st November, in the beautiful St John's church. Expect lots on gothic architecture, the sublime, and why Henry VIII is villain number 1 in the story of British art! cirencesterhistoryfestival.org/event/bendor...
Not an easy listen even for Florian Fricke. An album I spent many years playing at 33rpm before finally spotting the 45rpm on the label 😳 Popol Vuh - Sei still, wisse ICH BIN (Innovative Communication, 1981) If you’ve half an hour spare the film can be viewed here: youtu.be/6km-c4VFTNg #Vinyl
From tomorrow in Corby…
I'm doing a thing under the world tomorrow night. GAIA
Kirsch is one of those drinks I got a taste for on skiing holidays back in the late 80’s, but seems to be rare as hens teeth in the UK, so took a punt on this Romanian Cherry Schnapps. My fear that it would be just a sweet Cherry flavoured spirit have thankfully proved unfounded…
Helluva busy day, top achievement though… #The500
Thursday night has become Vedett Night at the village Cycle Club…
Outstanding pint.
Two pint O’Porter, and two for the ladies 😬 Five Points Railway Porter and Lenton Lane Cloudburst Session IPA at the Alestone, Aylestone Leicester. #BSkyBeer
Bought mostly for the terrific dust jacket by artist and illustrator Ronald Glendening (1926-2013). Not expecting much from the story tbh, but nice that it’s set in Herefordshire. #BookChatWeekly
Emergency Apple Pie Drop to Aylestone. The Scarlett Crofton just about keeping us going until the Bramleys are ready 🌱
Spitfire heading to Rutland…
So many things have done well in the veg patch this year, though not the Sweetcorn or Squash which despite regular watering never really ‘got-on’. Plenty of Carrot this year, joining the Tomato and Courgette glut in a batch of Veg Chilli. Hendo’s is not as good as Worcs Sauce obvs’, but needs must 🌱
Could be worth dusting off the Lederhosen for 😳
Germany Calling! Festbiers coming up at Beerhouse in Market Harborough. #BSkyBeer #Oktoberfest
Today’s top charity shop bargain, these delicious Raspberries by miniaturist Ian Traill-Stevenson. Should look nice once I’ve got it out of this nasty cheap photo frame and into something more befitting.
Top trivia*, the Skittles Table (shown here) at the former White Lion see’s regular service at the Weston-by-Welland Church Fete. [*this is why I don’t enter pub quizzes]
Next up, a much easier proposition…
I’ll see what i can do…
Presumably his experience of Perry was much sweeter and/or peary than he knew Perry had to be. Mine was med/dry and tasted of Melons and Grapefruit, clearly not a Perry 🤷♂️
At an Apple Day event a chap quite forcibly told me my Perry, made from Perry Pears, and a recent CAMRA festival award winner in the Perry class, wasn’t in fact… Perry 😳
Hmm 🤔, time to get some maps out and see if I’ve got an appropriate lump of stone. Oh! I have…
Bit of the Birdsong and Rainfall with the strong coffee this morning. VLMV - A Study Of The English Countryside (Erased Tapes, 2025) @erasedtapes.com #Ambient
Out for 496. Hoping for a better result with the next one… #JigsawDisappointment
The view from the rear carriage on the Dean Forest Railway. #WindowsOnWednesday
The Plough at Caldecott is about to change hands so a lucky break for your Rutland 100%er…
Extraordinary album. She made a great contribution to Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart album around this time too.
You wait and you wait for a documentary about one of the great women of modern culture, then two come along at once. Nothing Compares reminds us why Sinéad O'Connor was so much more than an outstanding talent, but the big surprise for me was the documentary on Twiggy who I knew too little about.
Well it is #ToadTuesday
Next up, a small bottle-lift, one of those that I gave Daddy RFCider at some point, now returned as his drinking days are sadly past. Must have given it him earlier than I thought, ‘Best Before 2015’😳… Nah! #BSkyBeer 🇮🇪
Absolutely banjaxed, barely enough strength to open a sharing can of Arbor C-Bomb, but Citra O’Clock must be observed. Cheers!… #BSkyBeer
I wondered whether the length of the undecorated bottom half suggests it originally projected from a wall high up.
Full-fat garden day, first lawn cut in what seems like months, and the veg patch tidy up starts in earnest. Need to mow the orchard too but first it needs clearing of a carpet of windfalls 😬 🌱
My Quince are still looking good, no splitting, none that I can see falling yet, just starting to yellow up.
I wasn’t planning on pressing this year but all of a sudden there seems to be a lot of (smallish) fruit. Dry conditions and now these bloody gales have resulted in a lot of fallers, which is my job for the week. Seems to be a bit early too, but won’t be pressing until mid-Oct at the earliest.
A ‘convenience’ format at best, but if you’re gonna…
I doubt there are many tbh…
If I had one of these I’d definitely be on the Tape Wanker trend…
A Pick ‘n’ Mix of recycled tile fragments in an alcove of Tewkesbury Abbey. #TilesOnTuesday
If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.
Good progress but it’s become increasingly clear there are at least three pieces missing 🥺
Cheltenham, so snooty… #ThickTrunkTuesday
You are a Lord though… yes?😳
Despite the serious downturn in the weather the auld Tomatoes are clinging on and still ripening nicely, so no letup… Tonights Tom Glut solution is Venison Meatballs in a Ras el Hanout spiced sauce. This required a splash of wine so it’s also Sherry O’Clock 🌱 #Sherry
Captain Beefheart’s Magic
The ‘electoral pact with the Lib Dems’ shows the level of Tory Thick we’re dealing with here. Labour are more likely to shake hands with Reform right now, I can’t see the LD’s making the same stupid mistake again.
I wish these were more widely available, these are my No.1 crisp choice, all the easy crunchability of Walkers, with the full-on Pickliness of Monster Munch.
…and so it begins, again. Praying for #The500
Karen snapped up this pair of useful oak frames for me at the weekend. I’ve only just had a chance to look at them and… 😳 wait-what! I’m guessing these photos of the Viaduct at Quakers Yard originally hung in the construction company’s offices or similar. #RailwayHistory @cymrurails.bsky.social
*trampled in the stampede*
Time for Bluesky folk to step up and show their quality. A poor Cheltenham bird seems to have lost its wings, and stuff. Someone on here must know who it belongs to. Come on Bluesky, do your thing, let’s get this… err… Torso, back to its owner. #LostProperty
Apparently one of the oldest examples was found in Gotland. @helenaullmark.bsky.social
[*only]
One thing we’ve learned from the Trump/Farage con jobs is there’s little value in pointing out the obvious, that Yaxley-Lennon is a grifter, fleecing his acolytes, using them to do the dirty work whilst acquiring wealth from the safety of the rear. His supporters genuinely don’t care…
Today’s top* Charity Shop winkle, what we think is an Antique Norwegian ‘Horn Ring’, probably silver but not marked, these are a very old thing though still made apparently. 🇳🇴
Because a Toad is not just for Tuesday.
“Attention ladies and gentlemen, the Beerhouse Buffet is now open, I repeat, the Beerhouse Buffet is now open”
I missed my Pickled Onion on the way home so we’ve gone a bit Snack Barmy…
Filthy wet drive home dodging boy racers and grey cars operating on stealth mode (“Turn your fucking lights on you cunt!), home to boozy bosom of Beerhouse… #SundaySnackage
11 minutes of pure filth.
#ShunterSunday at the Dean Forest Railway, Class 09 No. 09106
The genius of the duvet is it comes with built in ‘leg out the side-ability’ for just these occasions.
Cheltenham Minster (St Mary’s Parish Church) has a very fine Scratch Dial on the face of the South Aisle. #SundialSunday
The Denny Windows, The Chapel of St Catherine & St John, Tewkesbury Abbey. #StainedGlassSunday
Rainy days like this only serve to highlight the folly of the national rollout of Sundials, a lesson Cheltenham Council clearly have yet to learn! The Human Sun Clock, Sandford Park, Cheltenham. #SundialSunday
Citra O’Clock seems to come round earlier each day! @oakhamales.bsky.social Citra at the Sandford Park Alehouse, Cheltenham. #BSkyBeer #Pubs
They ‘were’ watched by the world, Sky News ensured that by treating the event like Royal wedding coverage.
The UK media show once again that if you want us to cover your protest you’re going to have to smash things up and assault the police, anything less is just not newsworthy…
Karen does the Dean Forest Railway Diesel Gala, almost willingly 😬
“I want more life, Fucker!”
I have no idea how to use Excel, but am just about getting the hang of pen and paper. Here’s a bonus pic for Greg.
“Evenin’ all. How’s everyone’s weekend going? I’m avoiding discussing current events, so here instead is a picture of me glaring at a human”. - A Horse
My (ahem!) ‘spreadsheet’ was rather basic and amateurish, but I have to say it was bang-on in the detail and didn’t let us down once.
Archie operating in his highly successful ‘Influencer’ role.
It wouldn’t be a day out on the trains without coming home with some cheap vintage memorabilia, once again praying for all 500 pieces on what could be a very challenging puzzle…
There’s more! Slo-Mo at Whitecroft.
Steamin’?
