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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's now gone like this... Given it's almost an hour after sunset and this is looking westwards, I can only think that the illumination is the reflection of the sunset on the sea...

An evening sky; while generally dark blue, clouds are illuminated on their underside and lit violetly/pinky/purple.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Septembers reading included... Always pleasant to escape into Edward Thomas's Fenlands. Otherwise, a mixed bag...

A pile of books, hardbacks and paperbacks, spines to view, with a background of plants (sage, and an apple tree).

In no particular order, the books are:

Rebecca Solnit Men explain things to me
Edward Storey Portrait of the Fen Country
Lafcadio Hearn Some Japanese Ghosts
A Goudie & H Vies VSI: Landscapes & Geomorphology
Jasper fforde Something Rotten
Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles
Gavin Knight The Swordfish and the Star
James Shapiro 1606 Shakespeare & the Year of Lear
Andrew Crumley Mr Mee
Jenni Erpenbeck Things That Disappear
Wm Shakespeare King Lear

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don't you just love it when after a long week and a difficult day, the Apocalypse goes and turns up Friday evening?

A vivid band of fiery orange-red cloud against a blue sky with silhouettes of a tree, a house roof and another tree along the bottom.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

More mist and less mellowness in Manchester...

The view south down Deansgate with a verticality of buildings; tall ones in the distance disappear into mist.

In the foreground, a man stares at buildings. A glazed office block reflects a band of brightness while behind it, an incomplete building disappears into mist; it's higher levels lacking windows. Behind the van, two closer buildings made of sandstone frame the modern newer ones in yellowy-brown, their lines of perspective drawing the eye towards the unfinished building looming over them all.

Does this even make sense??

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I Spy Autumn. Mists - 5 points Now looking for mellow fruitfulness...

An early morning park. Across the grass a tree line is silhouetted against a light blue sky. Grey clouds above are edged with pink along their lower sides.

A slight haze may be visible above the grass.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I do wish people would stop calling these 'donations' and start calling them what they really are, 'downpayments'.

Front top corner of Sunday Telegraph: headline reads 'Farage: £72m war chest will ready us for power

Reform receives second £36m donation from a crypto billionaire in just two days

By Gordon Rayner ASSOCIATE EDITOR'

Screenshot of The Guardian online front page with a picture of Robert Jenrick sat in a television studio alongside Angela Rayner. The headline reads:
'UK politics live
Reform's Robert Jenrick ‘very confident' £72m donations are 'perfectly legal'

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New second hand record shop has opened in Kendal (Revolving Eye, in the New Shambles)... ...rude not to have a mooch, at least, and came out with these. Lost my Levitation cd a while back but, bizarrely, the sticker on the back of this one looks really familiar...

A record and four compact disc cases displayed on a bench.

At the back is a 10" Bark Psychosis single ('A Street Scene'), an image of coloured blurred lights in a dark environment viewed through a wooden window frame. The art is credited to David McKean.

Leaning along the bottom of this are two cd cases; on the left, a bizarre collage that is Levitations first proper album, 'Need for Not' and next to it, a grey and white drawing of a skull that is the cover of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'I See a Darkness'.

Lying flat are two more cd cases: on the left is a painting of emblems on a beige background being the cover of David Sylvian's 'Gone to Earth's and next to it, an abstract multi-coloured design for David Toop's compilation, 'Ocean of Sound'. Coincidentally, both of these were designed by Russell Mills.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I appear to be in the middle of a Robin sing-off between this fellow & another hiding over the way. This one's been on the fence, in the tree, round the apple branches & on the grass. Not had a lot of birdsong round here for a while, or maybe it's been too wet for me to be outside to hear it?

A robin (bird) sat on a fence, staring straight at the camera.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

August books; been a difficult month, hence perhaps the retreat into varieties of fiction.

A pile of books, mainly paperbacks, with the colourful spines on view.

In order of reading, the authors and books are:
Robert Holdstock Lavondyss

Solvej Balle On the Calculation of Volume I

Jasper fforde The Well of Lost Plots

Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man

Robyn Hitchcock Stranded in the Future

J L Carr What Hetty Did

Jenni Erpenbeck Kairos

W E Bowman The Ascent of Rum Doodle

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll..

A picture of the blue sky reflected in the reflective windows of a tall glass-faced building. In the centre is a very small white shape which is probably a plane.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spectacular sky this evening. Could say it's to do with the light show for The Cure, but we're definitely in the wrong part of Greater Manchester for that.

A skyline: below are the silhouettes of several trees and a house. The sky is clouded with a band of pinkish-orange lit cloud; all the rest, the top half of the photograph is grey except for a small pink smidge in the top right corner.

A skyline: below is the silhouette of part of a tree at the left hand side and a house with a full, deciduous tree next to it. The sky is clouded with a band of scarlet cloud across the middle of the photograph.lit cloud; all the rest, the top third of the photograph is grey/blue.

A photograph of the silhouette of a fir tree; from the top appears to appear an orange/red cloud against a grey cloud background.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

That pleasant day-after ache of a good day's walk yesterday.

Silhouette of a kestrel hovering in the sky

A mottled grey cloud covers almost all the sky and the top two thirds of the picture with brighter patches towards the left where a small flash of blue is seen.
Foreground is moorland with two trees on the right: one in full leaf, one seemingly leafless to the left. A figure walks between the two

A grey heron on a piece of water. The foreground water sparkles and behind the heron is vegetation of the canal side.

A silhouetted stone sticking straight up into the sky; above the sun shines through cloud in line with the stone.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Night time visitor patrolling the garden again.

A hedgehog on a lawn facing to your right. As it's night time, it's not very clear but possibly a light is reflected in an eye.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

July's Bookpile: matters of myth, folklore, trees and tides. Interesting reading all; pleased to venture further into @hookland.bsky.social.

A pile of books on a bench with their spines to view, mainly paperbacks, with one book stood behind with the title showing.

In no specific order, the books are:
Donovan Hohn Moby Duck

Laurence Mitchell Flint

Patrick Taylor. Timber Circles in the East

Charlie Watson Seahenge: An Archeological Conundrum

Mark Fisher The Weird and the Eerie

Roger Deakin Wildwood

Robert Holdstock Mythago Wood

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

David Southwell Hookland Fragments vol 1

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains

A sepia photo of Guy Chadwick sat in front of a fireplace with a bunch of flowers at the front right; Guy is staring out of the picture at the viewer, wearing dark clothes with his hands lightly clasped to the left. He looks slightly quizzical, as if bemused to be on the cover of his first solo record instead of a House of Love album.

His name is in capitals across the middle and the album title, 'Lazy, soft and slow', in handwriting under it.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Moonwatching. Suspect the discoloration may be due to the ash from Dovestones fire blowing west. Tonight though, the drama of the terminator line, especially in black and white, highlighting crater walls, if not their floors...

The moon at about first quarter: a crescent in light brown/orange. Some details picked out of crater walls as the sunlight touches them.

A hazy, almost half moon. Still slightly brown with details of the plains ('Seas') obvious.

A three-quarter moon in an orangey-brown. A crater (named Copernicus) is obvious on the equator just beyond the dark of the terminator line, which marks the line of the lunar sunrise.

A black and white picture of a three-quarter moon, focussing on the terminator line. At the top, a crescent of rim walls of the crater Plato are visible even though the rest of the crater is in darkness.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Pleasant Sunday afternoon in the garden with a good book and bees flitting in and out of their home in a compost bin. There's a bustling in the hedgerow behind me, but I think it's just a blackbird.

A photograph close-up of a bumble bee walking over some stalks of grass, looking as if it is heading to the bottom left of the picture.

It looks very furry.

A bee entering the gap between the shell of a black plastic compost heap and a plastic screen. Some green grass shoots cross the picture while some light brown dead grass is to one side.

The cover of a paperback book in mottled sunshine; the sunlight illuminates the title, 'Wildwood' and subtitle, 'A journey through trees' and the authors surname, Deakin'.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I have honestly been thinking of reading this...

A Penguin Modern Classics book cover: Anna Kavan's 'Ice'. A simple sketch of a woman in headscarf and long dress in a circle constructed of arc's. The colour scheme is greys and white with black lines.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The June reading pile. Three read for the second time, at least two to be reread at some time.

A pile of books, hardback and paperback, stacked in a pile with the titles on the spines visible. Behind is a sage bush, home to a variety of ladybirds and their aphids. The authors and books are:

Jenny Erpenbeck The Old Child/The Book of Words

Paul Hanley Das Gruppe at Band on the Wall

Jamie Woodward VSI: The Ice Age

Jasper fforde Lost in a Good Book

M John Harrison. The End of Everything

Brian Fagan The Little Ice Age

Jemma Wadham Rivers of Ice

Glyn Hughes Millstone Grit

Sam Weller Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And you may say to yourself it's only furniture And you may say to yourself there's no room for it And you may say to yourself anniversaries are close And you may say to yourself

A partly dismantled Ladderax unit; two side panels and the crossbrace remain with a shelving unit at the top; shelves are propped up nearby and a vacuum cleaner is on the floor to clear dust.

A line of small, ornamental glass elephants, decreasing in size, originally linking trunks and tails, but bits have broken over the years. They are arranged on a window ledge with slate rooftops in the background.

A dried Honesty leaf on a wooden surface.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Your last saved image is your current mental state.

A poster from a Manchester pub window advertising Monday night salsa sessions.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The May Bookpile; memoir heavy, fiction light. Much on loneliness in various forms, some interesting routes to pursue forwards...

A pile of books, spines read (in no particular order):
Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs

Jeanette Winterson - Why be happy when you could be normal?

Haruki Murakami - What I talk about when I talk about running

Olivia Laing - The Lonely City

Patti Smith - Devotion

Jeff Young - Wild Twin

WG Sebald - Campo Santo

Xiaolu Guo - My Battle of Hastings

John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Well, that was deeply unusual, but apparently not unpleasant.

Screenshot of an activity tracker displaying a 43 minute nap, from 1534 to 1617.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The April bookpile. Really enjoyed this month's reading! Some real treasure there, including @zebko.bsky.social and @reversediorama.bsky.social new books. The sooner read, the sooner re-read.

A pile of books in the sun, with their spines showing.

In no particular order, the books are:

Bryan Waterman Television Marquee Moon (33 ⅓)
C P Lee Like The Night
Sarah Hall Sudden Traveller
Olivia Sullivan Oracles
George MacDonald Fraser The Candlemasse Road
David Keenan Boyhood
Jasper fforde The Eyre Affair

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Thank you; you too. Maybe the last day the walk to the bus looks like this.

Trees in a Spring park. The sun shines on them from the side, bringing out the colours of the leaves: the fresh green of the young leaves contrasts with the bright red from other trees, all contrasted by the dark of the trunks and the shaded colours of the unlit leaves.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can't help but feel my local NHS is trolling someone in the White House here, with not one but two Sleep Services in the Orange Zone.

A sign in a hospital listing what is located in a specific part of the hospital. Amongst the listing for the Orange Zone is included Sleep Service 1 and Sleep Service 2.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I have reason to believe Houdini has reincarnated as a car.

The edge of the pavement and a road; straddling the kerbstones is a triangular yellow metal plate used to immobilise car wheels; a metal chain is looped through it with a lock. In the road, a small yellow loop of metal and a flake of yellow paint lead away.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Have a great time! I'd like to go but... life, logistics and the like. And I got to the Manchester gig in January and that was treat enough!

The Damned, Manchester, January 2026.
Dave Vanian picked out in a white spotlight at a lectern with Captain and Rat red light yo one side.

The Damned live at the Albert Hall, Manchester. Dave Vanian, arms stretched wide stands on stage while one of the buildings strained glass windows is in the background.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

I can't really explain this if this is meant to be a picture posted without an explanation, can I?

Suffice to say, black and white; a hand and a guitar; suggestion of someone behind.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Morning. Back to the commute, but a not unpleasant start...

The sun shines low through bare branched trees in a blue sky. The sunlight lies along a path in a park with grass either side, touched golden by the sun.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Describe your bluesky account in a single image. (My phone has eaten my preferred response).

A rectangular sign with a red background and in white writing 'CHANGED PRIORITIES'.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The March bookpile. The New York trilogy there was only a third done before I turned a corner walking to work in Manchester and found myself in a snowy New York film set near Harter Street; somewhat disconcerting...

A pile of books with their spines visible. Behind is the inside of a gatefold album sleeve: the album is 'Velvet Underground and Nico'.

In no order, the books are:

Patti Smith Just Kids
Haldor Laxness The Atom Station
Bob Dylan. Chronicles vol 1
Alain-Fournier. Le Grand Meaulnes
Peter Owen Jones Pathlands
Rob Jovanovic. The Velvet Underground Peeled
Derek Jarman Pharmacopoeia
William Shakespeare. Henry V
Jude Rogers The Sound of Being Human

A red hydrant in front of a pile of fake snow with a New York police car in the background.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today looks damp and cooler; have this picture from yesterday instead.

A line of bare trees in the distance, on the other side of a grassy area, are silhouetted against the early morning sky. The sun, just off centre, is slightly obscured by a high, thin light cloud; airplane contrails cross the sky and, in a gap between the taller trees, a parallel band of darker clouds starts to form.

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errantfrequency.bsky.social @errantfrequency.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

The post requires that there be no description of the image; therefore, as a zen exercise, please substitute a timeline cleansing image of your own choosing. Thank you.

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