It got a bit damp toward the end, that's for sure!
High functioning introvert. Author of The Financial Wellbeing Book, The Four Cornerstones of Financial Wellbeing, and founder of the Institute for Financial Wellbeing. Plus 3 novels (so far). Lover of music, cricket, and joyful things
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It got a bit damp toward the end, that's for sure!
I bought a great collection this week. It included Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. That's already been sold. Lasted ten minutes at the front of one of the boxes. #sellingvinyl
I amassed a load of singles (1,000+) when buying collections. Can't sell 'em. So, last week, a chap came and took them all away in exchange for a couple of albums I wanted. Third punter who comes up today asks: "Do you sell singles?". #sellingvinyl #ornotsellingvinyl
I'm at Tobacco Factory Sunday Market #sellingvinyl today. Got some great new stock! Come and say hi. Or if you're going to the women's rugby just down the road, pop in to the market first!
I Capture The Folly.
Oh well done. That is quality.
I can't get my head around that chart - it looks like something from The Day Today!
Messaging my wife to ask if we have any tahini. The brilliant AI on my phone changes it to: Do we have Elliott Heany. As the saying goes, what a time to be alive
Dead Behind The Eyes is out in paperback on October 8th. 'Like a French Inspector Morse' CK McDonnell Preorder your copy from your favourite bookshop. #crimefiction #procedural #France #mystery
Second spin for this, loving it. Feeling Strangely Fine was one of my favourite albums of the 90s #saturdaymorningmusic
Something to stir the soul.
Elderly Neighbours. Fool burglars into thinking you haven't gone on holiday by having the curtains of every room drawn all day long and parking your car tight up to the garage door. @twoptwips.bsky.social
Is the floor tom a bit more boomer than on other kits? #closebutnocigar #whenjokesdontquitework
Nothing puts you in your place quite like being alone at home with the family dog, who, rather than sit with you, trots around the house seeing if anyone else is at home before going back to her bed.
And now he's expected to be fit. All part of the Aussie pre series mind games?!
I’m not, I do second Saturday each month
After a lifetime of deliberation, and oscillating between many different options (including Think Lizzy, Peter Frampton and Talking Heads), I have finally reached my decision. The best live album ever is King Curtis Live At The Filmore West.
Food! Lamb, Rice, Onions, Mustard, Salt. Amla = a goosebury? Not actually sure what specific dish that is making! Cook and Butcher would come in handy.
Nothing demonstrates the gulf that now exists between the UK and the US that when an American has an accident, the first people who get called are their business partner and their medical provider.
We can have a debate about the merits of the flag and national identity. But now is not the time. We must understand that nothing good can come from the so-called “natives” raising the flags in “protest”, and plastering them across public space. apple.news/AsgEnhstpRyK...
Restructuring county cricket is the game’s equivalent of “As the new head of marketing, the first thing we need to do is to redesign the web site”. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
Think I might become a Quaker! This is superb. It will take 5 minutes, but it really is worth reading all of it. cc @lettersofnote.com
I loved talking at this event a few years ago (and would love to again, hint hint!). If you are a paraplanner, I'd say this is a must attend event.
Thought: The irony of white supremacists is that they assume that white people are the best. And yet their very existence disproves that theory. Catch 22.
What I've read says it was instigated by far right organisations. Nationalism is such a dumb concept. Where does it stop? I'm European. I'm British. I'm English. I'm from Kent. I'm from North Kent. I'm from Chipstead. I'm from Coulsdon Lane. Which identity do you choose?!!?
Just been reading that. Rather surprised that such a ban is even possible. Surely there is a mandate that the elected officials need to be available for challenge and explanation?
I passed several English flags today. I felt embarrassed and confused. Embarrassed because I assume it is a far right nationalistic thing, which I find dumb. Confused because I'm not actually sure if that is what's going on. Thanks for ruining our flag, 'patriots'.
You'll enjoy some of my #sellingvinyl stories from selling at markets. Some of them are hilarious, some very sweet - enjoyed making a young man's year (his words) this morning as he found Sinatra's Live At The Sands in my collection today
Wellbeing in action
Just saw this tweet and looked back at the thread. It’s a long way from that last tweet to the first one! 🤣 #easilydistracted #squirrel
This is why I do this. Not for the money. Not for the records I keep for my collection (well maybe a bit for that). But for moments like this. Making someone's day (or, as this fella put it, his year). #sellingvinyl
A young fella casually looks through my stock, and gets to S. He stops. His mouth drops. He turns to his girlfriend, mouth still agape. When he regains the ability to speak, he explains he's been looking for this album for 10 years. Frank Sinatra Live At The Sands #sellingvinyl
A chap buys two records. I ask him if he wants to buy a tote bag to put them in. He replies: "No thanks, I've got loads of tote bags. I'm a millennial." #sellingvinyl
A young Asian man takes a picture of my wall and tells me he’s going to listen to them all because I must like them so much to hang them up. He’s got quite the musical ride coming!! #sellingvinyl
A chap buys a soul compilation. He tells me about a single he recently bought - Frank Wilson – Do I Love You (Indeed I Do). His is a repress, but suggests I might want to keep my eye out for it. An original 1965 copy sold in 2020 for $100,000! #sellingvinyl
Please tell me that was the England bowler John Lever?! I love the idea that he opened a record shop on is retirement!
A lady (in her 60s?) comes over, pointing to the copy of Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks' I have on display. "That's nostalgic", she tells me. "I borrowed a boyfriend's copy and smuggled it into the house in my satchel without my parents' seeing to tape it." #sellingvinyl
I’m #sellingvinyl at Tobacco Factory Sunday Market this morning. Some stalls here I haven’t seen here before. Come along and say hi, and get some Twerker cheese while you’re at it!
Walking the dog, saw a lady in her 60s who was our kids' favourite dinner lady. She had a stroke 10 years ago. Just passed her walking down the lane, one leg in a brace, with a long stick, concentrating hard on walking. A reminder to appreciate what you’ve got when you’ve got it.
Despite that tweet, nothing is gonna change my love for you.
What is your immediate reaction to the word ‘scam’ in terms of how serious a crime it is? Please reply from 1 (not serious) to 10 (extremely serious). Please share the question to maximise results.
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I've just Googled it, and there are lots of reports of M&S having commented.
@ianmooreauthor.bsky.social Do I remember you saying that Andy Roberts is a mate of yours? If so, please tell him I am absolutely loving this album!
The Vanishing Point is very good.
In a case of the triumph of hope over reality, I've just paid to have my 3 novels in print for another year. I'll not make the money back, but it would please me if a few more people read them (The Vanishing Point is best) www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Chris...
Interesting. In 2000 it was 47 times, and in 2014 it was 120 times. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
The background is the point of the picture. It's the visual version of the track Have A Cigar. How the music business (represented by the studios) take advantage of the artist. If the studio wasn't in the picture, it could be just any business deal.
I was today old when I found out that the 'Terry and Julie' of Waterloo Sunset was Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, who were dating at the time.
A music recommendation from my #SundayMorningMusic. In Search Of Amelia Earhart by Plainsong. This is a new album to me, and I’m loving it. Think: early Neil Young, or Easy Chair by The Byrds, but British.
1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 5 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. The media, their framing, IS the problem
What publication is that from , James?
Easy one (I hope!). Byron Place
Blimey, that’s proper bleak!
Oh for sure.
A local infants school. Elderly male (of course) neighbour regularly complained about the noise. Sent a video as proof of the noise of children playing. So they wrote back - he didn't have permission to video, so they were sending it to the police. Never heard from him again!
That's all the vinyl, CDs and downloads added together. I have around 1800 vinyl personally. My stock is separate (that's around 3,000). Do they blur? Darned right they do! 😂
It is just the Sunday I'm afraid. Would have been nice to say hi!
Correct! Have yourself a point, sir!
A young lady tells me that her younger sister used to think that Elton John was two people: Elt and John #sellingvinyl
Want to earn a point? What album am I currently playing at the market? "Won't you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen." #sellingvinyl
Lovely chat with a young lad who is getting into The Who. He has Who's Next, but was unaware of Tommy. He buys Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy. It's the best Of the 60s singles, which he's never heard. I'm so jealous that he's going to hear those songs for the first time! #selingvinyl
Chap comes up and eagerly asks me what is the music I'm playing. Thinking I have a new convert to Ernest Ranglin, I tell him it's a track called Congo Man. "Amazing," he says. "This used to be the title music for Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares." #sellingvinyl
It's double header weekend, I'm #sellingvinyl at Tobacco Factory Sunday market today. Come and say hi, and I'll keep posting any fun chats I have (which, frankly, is the main reason I do this - that and buying collections!)
She's got class. I haven't.
There is a model railway exhibition nearby. We discuss with one chap who has been there all day what records would a model railway enthusiast buy. He eventually buys Traffic and Van Morrison, which seems about right #sellingvinyl
A lady buys Almost Blue by Elvis Costello, and we confide in each other that we both cry every time we hear the second verse of Good Year For The Roses #sellingvinyl
A chap holding a Samuel Beckett book he has just purchased buys Blue Train by John Coltrane from me. We agree that on no condition should he try reading one whilst listening to the other #sellingvinyl
I’m selling vinyl at Wells market. Come and say hi! #sellingvinyl
A lady with two sausage dogs comes into my stall to tell me that one of them is called Ziggy Stardust, the other Penny Lancaster. Then, as if delivering a punchline, that her name is Liz Taylor #sellingvinyl
It is a masterpiece, Dave.
😂 Nice oblique reference!
Just thought of a new saying. When offered a mint, Take the hint.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Signed up to a free trial of the @telegraphnews.bsky.social in order to read an obituary of a friend's father. Which means I got an email newsletter today. Scrolled down - oh my, the relentless negativity! What must that do to you, reading so much doom and gloom every day?!
That's ridiculous closing the day's play now. England need 35 - that'll take what, 5 overs? And it's India bowling, so that will only take them an hour and a half to bowl them. 😉
Total lack of interest, especially if, like me, you don't fit the standard profile. And I'm a better option!!
Suggestion. If someone is looking for a market that is imperfect so that they can start a new business, try lettings agencies. My goodness, the service levels if you are trying to let a property are utterly atrocious.
I've just got sacked as a mirror polisher. A pity, I could really see myself in that job.
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
I’m an inactive Green Party member and dropped leaflets for them at the last GE. I’m on several WhatsApp groups for the area. So I’ve interacted with a lot of Green Party members. I wouldn’t describe a single one of them as ‘crystal’ or ‘woo’ types. And nobody has ever even hinted at antivax beliefs
#ILoveBristol
#ILoveBristol
If you want to find out whether you are overwhelmed or not, just ask one of your followers on Bluesky. We can tell! (btw was in Oxford this weekend and passed the Story Museum where you helped my son with his drawing at the Phoenix comics event for several year - I'm still grateful! Happy memories)
That's fabulous
Last time I saw that view it was covered in metal red poppies. It was an extraordinary sight.
I think I saw a Hugh Cornwell Pasties once
Jason Manford and Harrison Ford doing a great job on @skysportspl.bsky.social golf commentary
Well the new album by @theswellseason.bsky.social is predictably magnificent #saturdaymorningmusic
Getting strong “I’m really sorry I was caught” vibes today
She did suggest that at one point!
A woman laments giving away her record collection, as her daughter is now collecting records, and they share exactly the same musical tastes. This is a tale I hear often. But good news - she buys 3 records off me! #sellingvinyl
A young woman with a baby on her hip picks up an album from my punk box. The cover is a drawing of the band. She points to the screaming mohincan'ed singer, and says: "That's my uncle!". #sellingvinyl
Back at Tobacco Factory Sunday Market today #sellingvinyl. Already had a surprise toddler dance to Ramblin' Man by The Allman Brothers. Clearly going to grow up to be a rocker! Come and say hi and buy a record?
A serious record collector gets stuck into my more expensive stock. His patient wife chats to me. She seems proud of his passion, even as she ribs him for the amount of money he spends. I ask her what she gets to spend money on in return. She replies: “Ice cream” #sellingvinyl
An Australian gentleman spies my rare AC/DC album, and wonders if he can fit it in his luggage. Sadly, he concludes that he cannot. #sellingvinyl
I’m sweating buckets #sellingvinyl at Wells market today. If you want to bring me an ice cream, you’d be very welcome!
Saw Stevie Wonder at Blackweir Fields in Cardiff last night. Two reviews. 1. Stevie was fabulous 2. I'm never going to one of those Hyde Park type concerts again. From ticket price to beer and food, you are fleeced every step of the way. Horrid experience