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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 23h

Rewatching late nineties police drama The Cops (iPlayer), it holds up pretty well

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NP some of the greatest computer game music ever - the sad, spooky theme from Dwarf Fortress youtu.be/-6FXeupOp04?...

youtu.be

Dwarf Fortress - Dwarf Fortress Mode theme

YouTube video by StarmanSuper00

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have breakfasted on a prawn cocktail and two hot cross buns, like someone desperately signalling to their Moscow handlers

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can think of one job interview where I should have arrived with an iced coffee/knickerbocker glory/Asterix-style roast boar if only to distract from the fact I'd just been caught in a biblical downpour with no brolly and was completely sodden from head to toe.

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

List of Individual Birds is my favorite Wikipedia page

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Local sticker scene. Maybe related to drugs. Or cribbage?

A sticker of a man holding a comically oversized shotgun, captioned ALL DOUBLE, ALL SKUNK

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saw and heard loads of these beauts (nutcrackers) on holiday. Maybe the iconic sound of the alps/dolomites for me (ahead of cowbells, marmot whistles, and the satisfying bloop upon ingress to the chairlifts).

A medium sized squat bird with a sharp chunky beak, and chocolate brown colouring with white speckles

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Odd feeling leaving the house just now, like the clouds haven't moved at all since 6pm yesterday

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this promo shot for celebrity masterchef feels like an invite to a cannibal dinner party

Grace Dent and Giorgio Locatelli perched in front of a huge plate of spaghetti and meatballs and holding up forkfuls of food while grinning and looking at the camera

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

still off work so gone to Leigh-on-sea

A plate of prawns, crayfish tails, cockles, mussels, a little pot of pinkish sauce and two bread rolls

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last full day here, last hut - the Ütia Forcelles. Maybe the best of the lot. Lunch involved turtres, a local specialty somewhat like fried crispy ravioli. Don't want to come home

A restaurant with a sunny outdoor terrace perched on the side of a mountain

Two bulbous fried pastry things stuffed with green spinach and cheese sitting on a napkin on a plate

More blue skies, green trees, big spiky mountains

A grassy meadow dotted with little huts, leading into a stretch of forest giving way to a steep mountain face

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Up to the Langkofel hut. Goulash and potatoes and more strudel. There were marmots (not pictured).

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

Another great day and maybe my favourite little hike round here - to the Brogles hut

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

Yesterday in the dolomites: more mountains, more sunshine, more strudel

Huge rocky spires jutting up into a mix of blue sky and white clouds

A sunny landscape of rocky mountains, white scree, pale grass and dark green trees

Topfenstrudel with vanilla sauce and a coffee

A couple stood in front of a jagged rocky mountain ridge

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy birthday to my pal Ralf, former face of Vet's Kitchen Adult Sensitive dog food, now legally old enough to drive

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is the second week in September, the traditional time of year for ol' mattycr to hit the mountains

A big cow in a green meadow standing in front of jagged mountains wreathed in wispy grey clouds

Food, glorious food. Plum strudel and custard

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

where to go in Milan for a dry Martini O'Neill

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

watching the geoguessr world championships on YouTube. The game itself is pretty good tv. The stuff in between is, er, not so much.

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Chiles about to hoist Rebecca West to the top of the book charts

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Philip Larkin society has succumbed to the slop machines

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Parton had such sweet bongos

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. Damn you, Walt Whitman! and then I don't know

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should be an album cover

A hundred or so fuzzy cows zigzagging down a mountain, viewed through binoculars

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Off out to watch the Ryvita works football team. They're playing a Popchips XI in the lo-cal derby

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

Fucking before midday cycling proficiency tests (5) #crypticclue

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

highlight of my day was hearing the phrase 'ayurvedic gazpacho' emerge out of the hubbub as I walked through a farmers' market

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I have been resisting that thing where you stuff a Magnum inside a croissant and eat it but I might not hold out much longer

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Aside from the appropriateness or not of the use today, the alert itself is so annoying that I dismissed it before reading it in full.

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Was reminded of this (from Hazlitt's The Fight) by the general vibe yesterday when everyone came outside enthusiastically clutching their colanders

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The trick to looking directly at the sun is repeated practice

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

Used to fart about in here in a little boat #thedrought

A large dried up pond, all brown cracked earth

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Heading to Diss shortly, which has recently been unveiled as England's 4 sexiest town. I will try and push it onto the podium

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Awful bigot died. Lol": Dr, after work (3,6)

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I see that the Guardian in last week's summer puzzle special claimed the first line of the novel Pale Fire is 'I was the shadow of the waxwing slain'

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

South London fish scene. Cod fritters (and wings) in Brixton and er, skate in Dulwich

Cod fritters with dip, and some chicken wings on a red table

A busy sunny skatepark with some guy pulling off a bodacious jump

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

can't even pop out for a sandwich without being called 'Mr CEO' by a chugger because I'm wearing a shirt and trousers. Then on the way back I got 'Mr Meal Deal' from his colleague

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love hip dips (labneh and baba ghanoush)

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