davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026#NowMunching Toblerone: maybe the best choc ever? Still gutted that years ago I left two enormous bars I’d bought for our then small daughters in the overhead locker on a flight back from Zurich. I hope the cabin crew/ground staff enjoyed ‘em #chocolate 100
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Up the corner shop for wine and chocs. Smells like Autumn, feels like Autumn, is Autumn 🍂 160
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The sky over #RichmondPark this week, psychedelic filters applied (click for full versh) 290
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026‘Is it raining in New York/Down 5th Avenue/And off Broadway after dark/You love the lights, don’t you’ #NowPlaying 💙 040
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A couple of nice things from this quarter’s ’Vintage Vinyl Saturday’ at our local Mind shop, both NM ✔️ #records #jazzvinyl #jazzfusionvinyl 030
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The frittata before she goes under the grill; spuds, allotment courgettes, fresh basil & rosemary, oeufs, fromage. It looks very much better irl than the iPhone camera represents, you’ll have to trust me on this 140
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Went up the corner shop for rum & chocs; back home as we tucked into our respective KitKats and Crunchie and reminisced about 70s confectionery Mrs H remembered this. You can keep your madeleines M. Proust 240
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Served with green salad topped with feta, toasted pine nuts & some Mrs H allotment toms, with a basic vinaigrette ✔️ 050
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I salivate every time I think of doing this and cannot get enough. Parboiled new potatoes lightly squished with a spoon before being doused with olive oil, seasoned with fresh rosemary, salt and pepper and shoved in the oven for 30 mins at 200C. Absolutely blimming superb #spuds 🥔 3130
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Autumn-flowering crocuses on a blissfully warm & sunny walk in #RichmondPark today 030
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What I love about this is you doing Serious DJ Things and me making sure you don't knock your drink over 120
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe 150
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026‘And what a year when the exams/And crops all failed’ #NowPlaying #XTC What a sublime LP, trad. shout out to @mick1960.bsky.social 250
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This record turns 40 next week PAY NO MORE THAN £4.49 ‘In the land of a thousand doses/Where nostalgia is the opium of the age/Our place in history is as/Clock watchers, old timers, window shoppers’ #BillyBragg 1110
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026‘I have to be careful not to preach/I can't pretend that I can teach/And yet I lived your future out/By pounding stages like a clown’ 070
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026‘I'm making a stand against the world/There's those who would hurt us if they heard/And it's always in the back of my mind’ #NowPlaying #TheJam #VeryOldRecords 1130
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"You've got guts. I've known dozens of girls, been in love with some. But an American girl I've never seen and never shall see will hear my last words. Rather sweet. June, if you're around when they pick me up, turn your head away" 110
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Richmond Park most certainly slipping from late summer into autumn today 140
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A pint in the sun in #Hackney whilst waiting for @campfreddy.bsky.social and in readiness for the thrills of Tracey & Ben later #OutOut 4100
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why is my Insta feed asking me this? I mean, I’m not sure I’m best qualified to reply 120
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026…and it turned out John Lewis have ‘concessioned’ Rough Trade to sell a very few mega selling records in their stores, and so….👇🏻 010
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Tonight I am in love with this picture of Frank #Sinatra on the set of 'Marriage On The Rocks' (1965) 📸 Robert Willoughby 070
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Been to Dulwich Picture Gallery so many times but only today discovered (thanks Mrs H) the chapel that adjoins and pre-dates it. It’s beautiful and smells of ancient polished wood. This window depicting scenes from the Passion commemorates Private Arthur Broomfield, killed in Burma on May 3rd 1942 3140
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Very much enjoyed ‘Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography’ @dulwichgallery.bsky.social today 📸 Here’s ‘Bowery’ (1937) by Aaron Siskind. More on my Insta. 130
davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trad. ‘Books Read In August’ post (missing ‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by #DeborahLevy which I forgot to put in the pic). The #KateChopin was a revelation: pioneering (1899), evocative, sad. The #JoanDidion was exceptional #SummerReading 📚💙 030
![Beneath a pic of the sleeve of 'The Symphonic Ellington' (Reprise, 1963) text from my old blog reads...
"Of his many European tours, the most successful ever undertaken by Duke Ellington began early in 1963 during the worst winter in a hundred years. Foot-stamping queues, packed, enthusiastic houses and newspaper superlatives were the rule, and a crowded itinerary was somehow fulfilled as Duke and his men flew in and out of frozen airfields. Duke also found time to realise a long-standing ambition; to record those of his extended works which had been orchestrated for his own band and symphony orchestra"
"Duke Ellington arrived in Milan early one February morning to discover that the musicians of the La Scala Orchestra would be available to him for only two hours at 5pm. He had to write something that would not need much rehearsal and would take as little time as possible to record. He picked up his pencil at 10am and wrote this piece"
[from the LP sleeve notes by Stanley Dance]
In the unlikely event that there is a Heaven, and in the even unlikelier event that they will let me in it, this will be playing there.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d5fgblyoefj6xk7wslmqikdd/bafkreig7gwzxed5b372veheax7jgdmb7qcukwy5auc7ev5aeozfoi5ao7i)
