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Ah, the smell of burning wafts out of vents as heaters are turned on and six months of accumulated dust burns off electric coils. Is it winter now? Oh do fuck off. It'll be 90° a week from now. No, really.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe one more small one before bed.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 17h

I'd take a picture but that would mean getting up off the sofa and walking all the way to the kitchen #TooBloodyLazy #AndDrunk

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 17h

There is no coconut. Lots of condensed milk and vanilla and some raisins.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 18h

I know! I might have to put on a pair of socks.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 19h

It has to be a B word! I fuckin love pizza and cars btw.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 20h

70 - nil? That's almost a cricket score. If Australia are playing Nepal.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 20h

Oh the rock star life. Birds, boats, booze... books?

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 22h

It's always better when there's 12 inches. Reggae! Honestly, your mind's in the gutter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qU...

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WAILING SOULS - Bandit Taking Over [1981]

YouTube video by Bionic Dub

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I hear the Prince Charles has a new lease and won't be closing after all. Very good news.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A follow-up to last night's rant about YT cooks. There are some I know of who fulfil the criteria for being 'ordinary'. This one for instance. He films in his kitchen using the kind of utensils and implements you and I have, and the chip pan is always on the cooker. www.youtube.com/@BakingOnABu...

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Baking On A Budget

Hello and welcome to Baking On A Budget. Here I’m baking healthy, delicious and nutritious cakes, pies, bread and main meals like breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’ll show you just how inexpensive it is ...

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I think I prefer it to 'Gold', but only just.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

charge, oh yes. Everything will be as it might be in a normal kitchen like yours and mine. No $1500 knives. No cutting boards the size of an airport runway. No $600 Le Creuset pots. And the veg will be like the veg we get from the supermarket - not perfect. Let's see you work with that. Hoo hah!

Rikki Fulton playing Dirty Dickie Dandruff, the Gallowgate Gourmet in Scotch and Wry

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I love how the 'experts' say you should keep the lid tightly closed when you're cooking rice but don't explain how to stop it foaming up in the pan and spilling all over the cooker, which never happens for them, oh my word no. There'll be some changes to the way TV and YT cooks operate once I'm in

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It happened again today. I remember this one, and another that I can hear in my head but I can't remember the title or the artiste, and searching for Bob Marley tribute song is quite obviously hopeless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwPY...

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LONE RANGER / TRIBUTE TO BOB MARLEY - REGGAE 7inch vinyl record

YouTube video by toku toku

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Spot on. This gif thing is frustrating.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I worked with someone in my first job here (this chap actually) who'd say it to the customers, and before I knew it I was doing it. It worked its way into my being.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What a life Steve Winwood has had. Being in a hit rock band almost before he'd left school and spending the rest of his life as a successful musician. What a dream.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I would never say aloominum. Hell, I don't even use that most Texas of sayings - y'all, and its variations. I do say howdy thought.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's a damn shame. Maybe I'll have a decko at what's at the back of those pantry shelves later today.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Cheers Gary. Several Americanisms and Texanisms have become part of my vocabulary during these past few decades but Fall isn't one of them, ah tell yuh hwut.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trying out-of-date foods is one of my favourite hobbies. I've rarely had a failure, even with a best/use by date of five years previously. There are usually one or two of that vintage in the pantry.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes Fred, we know you have no fears about walking along narrow ledges with a 200 foot drop on the side. Stop showing off.

Fred Dibnah walking along the top of a narrow medieval castle wall

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How 70s is that! I think you could be right about the year. It feels like an early to mid 70s colour rather than later.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We had a ferocious rainstorm a little over an hour ago. Almost three quarters of an inch of rain which, by the way, was coming down sideways because of the wind. I can't believe the leccy didn't go off. All gone now. It gave my plants a good soaking.

A Manhattan cocktail in an etched coupe glass

A Doppler radar image of heavy rain over Austin

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Any road up, that was one of them which I haven't heard for maybe 40 years or more. Reputedly the first all-female German punk band. But! Today there was a second one and both of them were absolute belters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=80bu...

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HUGH BROWN AND RANKING JOE - BATTLE OF LION + DUB

YouTube video by leggotherydim

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I'll be listening to an old John Peel show and occasionally I'll hear a song that I not only remember but kept on one of my Peel cassettes. I couldn't afford to tape every show so I'd have to dub my favourites onto a 2nd cassette and use the first one again. A regret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-M...

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Carambolage - Rampenlicht

YouTube video by MikeyRemembers

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Dagnammit. It's a raccoon rubbing its hands together and saying "Excellent". The internet is broken. I'm sending mine back for a replacement.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I wouldn't trust me as far as I could throw a Cap Metro bus.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Damn straight! You'll like Texas, plenty of squirrels and possums and raccoons to chase.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

That's a good deal. It's not my favourite beer style but I had one this year to keep in with the season.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fair do's Cooper, he gave you the box to tear up. You're right though, you're 35 in dog years, old enough to drink beer!

Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Lidl seem like they're onto a winner with the Festbier suitcase. Everyone's snapping them up.

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