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OK, I was just going to post one, but actually quite impressed at what the software picked out here. It got confused by a couple of things (30 St Mary Axe aka the Gherkin, the Thames barrier in its closed position) but otherwise good with some challenging images.

Paula Rego's complex painting The Raft, which includes in its bottom left corner an image of a small yellow sailing boat, along with images of women, dragons, salamanders and other animals.

An end-on photograph of the aircraft carrier the USS Intrepid in New York.

A plain white card with a dimly-lit photo in the top third. The photo shows a tree-lined lake with a canoe floating on the lake, with a person slumped over the side of the canoe. The caption on the card states it is a still from the film Friday the 13th. The canoe and figure are partly in shadow and are not immediately distinguishable from the dark water of the lake.

A wide angle photo of the sea at Margate. There are rocks in the foreground, and at some distance out to sea, a single figure (an Anthony Gormley sculpture) in the water. A large tanker is barely visible on the horizon.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 5h

A very happy 92nd birthday to Alan Garner, one of the best writers, for any ages, we have.

Books by Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor (two editions), The Owl Service, Red Shift (UK and US editions), Strandloper, The Guizer, The Lad of the Gad, Fairytales of Gold, A Bag of Moonshine, and Collected Folk Tales.

Books by Alan Garner: The Stone Book; Granny Reardun; The Aimer Gate; Tom Fobble's Day (the last four collected as The Stone Book Quartet); Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird; Thursbitch; Boneland; Treacle Walker; Powsels and Thrums; Where Shall We Run To? - A Memoir; The Voice That Thunders. Also pictured: First Light, A Celebration of Alan Garner, edited by Erica Wagner.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 7h

If you like those, there are a few more gems to look forward to as well:

A selection of books by Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (poems), Willard and his Bowling Trophies, Dreaming of Babylon, The Tokyo-Montana Express, In Watermelon Sugar, A Confederate General from Big Sur, The Abortion: A Historical Romance 1966, The Hawkline Monster, Sombrero Fallout, Revenge of the Lawn, So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away, An Unfortunate Woman, You Can't Catch Death, and a book on Brautigan by Terence Malley. Not pictured: William Hjortsberg's mammoth biography of Brautigan, Jubilee Hitchhiker.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I see you and raise you (if not the book): 1238 numbered pages plus some more.

A weighty copy of The Rouse by China Miéville.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sandra Huller (predictably) superb in Rose, a dark drama from Markus Schleinzer. Both of them looking rather magnificent here before the #LFF premiere.

Sandra Hüller and Markus Schleinzer at the BFI for the showing of Rose. Ms Hüller I'm told is wearing Dior, a pale fitted blue-grey jacket with large lapels over a wide A line skirt, plus white gloves with blood-red palms. Schleinzer is sporting a very jazzy dark brown suit with red piping.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Excellent matinee gig between #LFF films yesterday - Evan Parker "With Birds" (John Coxon and Ashley Wales). Parker on impressively firey form.

Left to right: John Coxon, Evan Parker and Ashley Wales at Cafe Oto in London.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This one always has an autumnal feel to it.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You forgot the last frame in the sequence.

Dissolving Nazi face from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brrrr. Fault with the boiler, so no hot water. After a cold shower, am now *very* awake 😳 Warming up with some coffee and the AEOC: #NowPlaying

Cover of the live album Urban Bushmen by The Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can't see these latest Goop eggs being huge sellers.

A large human-sized drone next to Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What's Up With Stock, Hausen and Walkman - a cassette tape and multiple inserts inside a Kellogs Variety cereal pack, all wrapped up in a biohazard bag.

Cover and contents of the tape What's Up With Stock, Hausen and Walkman. The outer packaging is a biohazard bag for medical specimens with a small printed label attached of a man's face and the album title. Inside the bag is a cereal box - Rice Krispies here, but they could vary - a printed track list, several printed inserts and a cassette tape.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#NowPlaying David Toop and his compilations can do no wrong.

Cover of the various artists CD "Haunted Weather" compiled by David Toop.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hadn't seen that, thank you. This article is from (I think) Mojo: I can't be certain but I'm pretty sure the member of the public illustrated making a shocking intrusion is a much younger me.

Article describing These Records, a long-closed record shop in London.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#NowPlaying Perfect "I'm in the house alone and I'm sure I closed that door earlier" music.

Cover of the album Improvisationen by Gruppe Nuova Consonanza, including one Ennio Morricone on trumpet. From the Deutsche Grammophon Avant Garde series.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Would anyone be able to tell the difference in quality?

Lord Archer died "peacefully" at home on Monday between writing sessions {it says here}, according to his publisher HarperCollins.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh all right then, here's #My9Albums. Every one of them shaped my musical tastes in some way.

A collage of nine album sleeves:
Yes - Close to the Edge
The soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Music and Rhythm: A Benefit for WOMAD (compilation)
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
John Martyn - Live at Leeds
Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Pat Metheny - 80/81
Cecil Taylor European Orchestra - Alms Tiergarten (Spree).

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was rather happy to pick this up a couple of weeks ago.

A copy of Ivor Cutler's book Cock-a-Doodle-Don't.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Born 100 years ago. Still cooler than any of us.

John Coltrane photographed by Chuck Stewart. Coltrane is shot from the waist up, is wearing a white shirt and striped suit jacket and is carrying a tenor saxophone. He is looking to his left and is strongly lit on his left side, the other being largely in shadow.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The ship's bell on HMS Belfast, which can be turned upside down and used as a font to baptise children of the crew, whose names are then engraved in the bell.

The underside of the ship's bell from HMS Belfast, with the names of those baptised using it as a font, together with the date.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Crass beyond belief: an article about Russian assassination plans on US soil in today's Guardian - and the ad that accompanies the article. Shame on you @theguardian.com

An extract from The Guardian website on Sunday 20th September 2026, from an article titled "The rules have changed: has Moscow begun to order assassinations on US soil?"
In the middle of the piece, just prior to a paragraph about "eliminating" Russian dissidents, there is an advert for (presumably) a clothing company which features three sweaters or hoodie apparently drenched with blood down one side with rivuelts of blood dripping from the collars, all of them printed with the legend "Problem Solved".

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#NowPlaying A glass of wine and some fine music. Have a grand evening, all.

Copy of the CD Just An Illusion by :Zoviet*France:

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That was superb 👏 👏 and I couldn't really fault the seat!

View from the front row, piano side, of London's Wigmore Hall. The piano is on stage with the keyboard clearly visible. No photos allowed of the performance, of course.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last of my days off, so taking a trip down the river. Love these boats when they put their foot down :)

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#NowPlaying, which goes from about 40 min of pppppppp to fffffffff pretty quickly. Chief Brody: "We're gonna need a bigger dynamic scale"

Cover of the CD Duos for Doris by Keith Rowe and John Tilbury.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Slightly warped copy of Out To Lunch providing some hypnotic reflections on the wall as it plays.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#NowPlaying and decidedly gorgeous it is (unless you have strong feelings about just intonation)

Cover of the album World in World by Julia Reidy, showing her playing a just intonation guitar.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cover of the Perec biography, with the best author photo ever.

Cover of David Bellos' biography of Georges Perec. The cover has a black and white photo of a smiling Perec, sporting a dark shirt and a white cardigan, with a quizzical-looking black cat on his shoulder.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A week off work. Right, I'm going in. See you on the other side.

Three books on a table next to a cup of coffee. They are Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age 1895 - 1965 by Frank Close; Utopia Parkway: The Life and Works of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon; and David Bellos' mammoth Georges Perec: A Life in Words. I'm going to need more coffee.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of our charity shops in the area now has a (regrettably small) vintage SF section. It's now smaller by one.

A Panther SF edition of Thomas M. Disch's novel Echo Round His Bones. Cover illustration of a colourful gridded cube containing stringlike objects in its centre and a skeleton arm reaching up from a grid below is by Peter Goodfellow.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think actor David Chandler (Jimmy Stevens in For All Mankind) has been cloned.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gongs aplenty ahead of this afternoon's "Ritual for John Coltrane" gig at Cafe Oto.

The stage at London's Cafe Oto, arranged with multiple drum kits, turntables and sampling gear.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It has some of the worst-designed and illegible sleeves notes I've ever seen.

Sleeve notes from discs 4-6 of the original Miles Davis Live at The Plugged Nickel CD box set, designed to induce myopia, migraine or both.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NowPlaying Miles Davis Live at The Plugged Nickel Two people who should have been quieter: 1. Noisy audience member 2. Miles don't shoot me

Cover of the first cd in the set Miles Davis at The Plugged Nickel (December 22 1965, first set). Everyone is metaphorically on fire here, except a particularly chatty audience member who should be, and Miles who sounds like he's having a really off night. But the others in the band? Damn.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ghent: why am I not living here, part two. For @bombaylychee.bsky.social, a nod to the fine folk in GenX, Music Mania 1 and 2, but it was the extraordinary Vinyl Kitchen and its friendly proprietor that delivered the goods here. Cheers that man.