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Ffredi Blino

@ffrediblino.bsky.social
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇺 🎸 🚴 Indie thing from Wales. Part cangarŵ. Siaradwr newydd. Possibly more engaged with cryptic crosswords than with rock’n’roll. Sound & vision: youtube.com/@ffrediblino

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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 6h
Oh! Nice. That goes with my “Ready as a Leather Bee” (in a song I need to get round to doing the final mix and release for!)
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 6h
Sometimes, just… thank god for music 🥲
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Familiar / recycled. No need to trouble the creatives…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😆 perhaps that would be therapeutic.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Families. JEEEEZ!
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeuhuehuehueuuu
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Equally disturbing, why does he appear in cryptic crossword clues on an almost daily basis?! 😭
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just learnt a new term - ‘natal cleft’. Etymologically interesting…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is very much 28a 😭
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I gather some people just aren’t into music. Not just that they occupy a different niche, or they like whatever’s on the radio… they just don’t do music. Weird.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Get super bling without gravity - recycle into snack packaging (8,4)
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Snack? Dial-in request without a drug (8)
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’ll have to try again… … in the spring, lest it falls apart revealing reconstituted snacks. (8) Ahem, yep, there’s a reason some people are crossword setters and I’m not 😆
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bendigedig! 🤩
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tried that a while back but I’m afraid I made a hash of it.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mrs Blino and I couldn’t agree on some of the themed solutions… it drove quite a wedge between us :-/
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyone well versed in kvass? I’ve soaked all my stale bread in 3 litres of water, and can only extract about 2 cups of liquid out of it. Twisting it up in cheesecloth and everything. About to give up.. suggestions welcome for putting soggy, stale bread to good use. #ferment #kvass
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Diolch!
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“I Duck Duck Goed it” and “I Duck Duck Went it” get roughly equal air time in our house. I find them both immensely satisfying.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh no! I *totally* use “Duck Duck Go” as a verb. It’s particularly satisfying in past tense, any way you quack it.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bit of fun in the studio today with my boi Jimi punking it up on the Hello Kitty strat.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tour of Britain Women blasting through Rhayader 😎
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Getting a spin tonight on BBC Radio Cymru - Mirain Iwerydd’s show 😁 complete with voice intro
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Is it still day drinking if it’s a Zero? Not even sure what I want the answer to be.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They have different connotations to me. I’ve booked a family holiday to Rotterdam despite knowing nothing about the place. He went back to the pub in spite of his best friend’s advice to the contrary. “In spite of” feels defiant; “despite” feels less consequential.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Blast from the past” seems a very accurate way to describe light from the Milky Way reaching your camera sensor.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thanks so much for letting me know!
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thanks to @rhysmwyn.bsky.social for spinning ‘Dim Syniad’ on BBC Radio Cymru last night! (Sadly BBC Sounds has truncated the show 30 minutes in, my punishment for not listening live?) Here’s the song at any rate! 😊 youtu.be/aVBJOIx5k8Q?...
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Dim Syniad
YouTube video by Ffredi Blino - Topic
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excitement mounts in the Blino household! @unchcrosswords.com
Two excited cryptic crossword solvers mostly obscured by unch crossword magazine, issue four.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cân newydd! New song! (Top tip: even if you don’t speak Welsh, it has very good guitars and drums) songport.link/t/ffredi-bli...
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Dim Syniad - Ffredi Blino
Listen to "Dim Syniad" by Ffredi Blino on your preferred platform - Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, SoundCloud and more.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I was slow out of the blocks with this one! But cantered home once I eventually got to it 🙂
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think people have rituals around their crosswording. This is one of mine. Did it once as a joke, then realised it’s much nicer not having google logos elbowing their way in to my crossword enjoyment!
Printed-out Guardian crosswords with the slogan “Prefer the Guardian on Google” improved by having the G logo and the word Google scribbled out in pen.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Long before autocorrect, but I had a boss who was very heavily reliant on spellchecker… she sent out a whole-company email about a system being unavailable - “Sorry for any incontinence caused”. (And yes, my colleague and I pissed ourselves as a direct result)
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
… although seems to get the picking pretty much exactly in sync. Nice teasing firebird views…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Gah! I was just eyeing off one of these in the kitchen (snigger) but then somehow forgot about it and went and brushed my teeth, and well that’s just ruined what remains of the morning.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ha! I never noticed that about that word…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1A! 😳👏👏
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They’re getting better and better 😆
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Caerdydd? Egrets really getting a toe hold (yay interesting birds, boo climate change)
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Haha, shades of Captain Kremmen!
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Does anyone else remember arranging themselves upside down on a chair as a kid and imagining yourself walking around on the ceiling as if it was the floor? This seemed a simple trick both physically and mentally, but I’m having trouble recreating it…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A good read + a follow. Stuff I ought to think about, being in a similar (ish) DIY boat.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Have read about it (including in that book) but haven’t seen doco…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“The World Without Us” - Alan Weisman - really interesting book on this topic!
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ooh nice! Nature always wants to put the lie to our pure and sterile dwellings…
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Nature putting my convictions to the test. House going on the market any minute, and this appears in the garage. My inclination would be to leave em to it, but not sure prospective buyers would feel quite so benevolent. Phone for scale.
A wasps’ nest the size of a large orange, around head height on a garage door jamb. A phone of roughly the same width is being held next to it.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yeah. Kinda gaslighty.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Is this teabag tag offering insight or just calling me self-absorbed?
A teabag tag dangling from a cup. The tag bears a supposedly motivational message which reads “You don’t experience what is real. You experience what you believe.” The image background contains a printout of a cryptic crossword and a window letting in morning light.
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
One of those moments that brings together two of my main passions… cryptic crosswords and shameless self-promotion 😊 youtu.be/hsaq5KKN4eY?...
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Bannau Brycheiniog - Ffredi Blino
YouTube video by Ffredi Blino
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Ffredi Blino @ffrediblino.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Things getting a bit surreal on this team call. Guy talking about issues with a customer, telling us it’s all gone tomato. I was thinking, is this some new expression? Turns out he’s talking about someone on the customer side called Marta. Hopefully she approves it. 🍅
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