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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new arrival here at Weir HQ - Jonny Trunk's really lovely new book - Holiday Exotica (published by Fuel Publishing). Have only had a quick peek so far, but very happy - and good to see some of John Hinde’s postcards featured.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Caught up with a couple of Norfolk's more senior sonic scientists last night, and stumbled across this. 36 seconds of brilliant outsider art. I do wish they were better known than they are. Hey ho - such is life I suppose.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Assumed this find (care of Mrs Weir) was another one for the buzzard collection given the flurry of recent finds, but having double-checked on featherbase.info* I think it’s actually a kestrel feather. Such a beautiful little gift from such a brilliant bird.

A small striped feather which appears to be from a kestrel.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Dear algorithmic overlords. More of this, less of the other stuff please.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Well, my photographs from the eclipse last night were largely hopeless - that said, I quite like this lens quirk that has rendered a shadow image in blue just above the horizon, while the main event happens up above.

A bad picture of the partial eclipse, which through some lens quirk, has rendered a shadow image of the sun in blue just above the horizon, while the main event happens up above.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The last partial eclipse I managed to see was in March 2015. I was at work, and I had to lean out of a second-floor window to take a snap. Although what I recall almost as much were the colleagues who just sat at their desks working away, regardless. Some people aren't easily impressed.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I love a motorway me. I think it’s because I live in one of the (9?) counties in England without a motorway passing through it. Which perhaps goes some way to explain why a new compilation LP from the mighty Bob Stanley has arrived today. Looks great, expect it'll sound great too :)

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"I'm not asleep, I'm in Nashville."

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Not sure that the East Anglian Daily Times has a great deal of faith in its readers.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thesaurus tabs open on every news desk with alternatives for “rude”, “unpleasant” and “cruel.”

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As as subscriber to many many "newsletters" I have to be honest and confess that they don't all get read. John's always do - and this one, about Penelope Keith and the marvellous Margo (which also includes references to Ever Decreasing Circles), is particularly good.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Back home after a week in Northumberland - so catching up on emails, with @juderogers.bsky.social always cheering newsletter being one of the few I have chosen to open. Now off to listen to the Between The Ears doc she recommends: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Tides of Sound: The Story of St.GIGA

A sonic journey into St.GIGA, Japan's radical tide-synced radio station from the 90s.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822), a 19th-century exploration in etchings and words of British trees “distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty” — publicdomainreview.org/collection/s…

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

See, there's an upside to everything.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Wish I had half the energy of these two. I've no real idea about what's going on, but it's working for me. youtu.be/wg0EtFAMhG8?...

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Getdown Services - The Radiator | Later… with Jools Holland

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

First noticing of a Chiffchaff earlier today - a welcome sound of the seasons motoring along, although as Melissa Harrison pointed out, they're also the "original monkey with a miniature cymbal". So pros and cons eh?

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I tried to eek them out for as long as I could, but I've now seen all six episodes, and I adored them. Slightly disheartened to get to the end so quickly, but very happy to find out that good things will come to those who wait. Mackenzie Crook's a keeper eh?

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Waving from "brutal" Norfolk - if there's anyone from @telegraph.co.uk out there, please be aware we do now have running water and mains electricity. Also there's a reason why we're somewhat unforgiving and one of the reasons is pictured.

A clipping from The Telegraph newspaper that is headlined "Norfolk's the perfect place to banish Andrew to - it's brutal" accompanied by a picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor looking alarmed. So that's something.

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

18/2/26 - nocturn

small hours
big time

cutting things up / moving shapes around
black paper with holes / night textures

star fields / circles - a puzzle of sorts
a solution presents itself

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Your five-minute alarm call for the first episode of Mackenzie Crook's new show, Small Prophets, over on BBC2. I've already snuck a look at it on iPlayer and unsurprisingly loved it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Small Prophets - Series 1: Episode 1

Since his girlfriend went missing seven years ago, Michael Sleep’s life has been on hold. But a mystical recipe in an old journal promises to give the answers he’s been longing for.

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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just thinking back to 20 years ago when I thought about what my life and weekends might be like in the future. A cool, cultured, middle aged glamour and still a keen sense of style, perhaps. The reality? Spending my Sunday evening watching the 1978 Come Dancing final on BBC4.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Local news update (to me anyway). The Windsor's increasingly niche moves into tourism continue.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

And the #BigGardenBirdWatch results are in (2025/2024 results in brackets for the completists out there): Blackbird = 2 (5/4) Blue Tit = 3 (5/3) Dunnock = 3 (0/2) Great Tit = 2 (2/1) House Sparrow = 7 (3/2) Robin = 1 (2/2) Rook = 2 (0/0) Wood Pigeon = 3(4/3)

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

More local news. [And for reference for those who are baffled and intrigued: youtu.be/hn5m4m5VdP8?...

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Well, it's good to know that Adeel Akhtar, who I thought seemed like a lovely bloke, appears to be a lovely bloke. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Desert Island Discs - Adeel Akhtar, actor - BBC Sounds

Adeel Akhtar, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Made a little felt Triffid, based on the Penguin paperback cover. In retrospect I wish I hadn’t chosen the most nutsack colour to sew what was already quite a bollockular form but sometimes I quite enjoy having created myself a bit of an obstacle to deal with, or in this case, a testicle to surmount

A small felt alien in oranges and purples rather testicular in shape with vines and fronds projecting from it at all angles and a big sort of trumpet coming out the top on a black felt background

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

While the world slowly disassembles, I took part in some distraction avoidance activities and had a grand day in Whittlesea, at the Straw Bear Festival, where I got the opportunity to get up close and personal with the star of the show.

A close-up photograph showing some heads of wheat, which make up the "costume" of the straw bear.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Heading out into the flatlands.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

If only we'd had David Gandy about in 1974 to stop the the rise of the bad "narrative" of the father as a "useless fool" :)

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Now that my birthday is out of the way I’m happy to allow the focus to shift onto festivities of a more seasonal kind. So I’m starting with an office party from 1970 care of the people at Man Alive (if you want to join me be quick as it’s pulled from iPlayer tomorrow): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Man Alive - The Office Party

Documentary, first transmitted in 1970, that visits a typical office and films the preparations for the annual Christmas party, the event itself and the aftermath.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Watched this late last night - for reference, if you're looking for something cheering, then I'd perhaps put it towards the bottom of your 'to watch' list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRv2...

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Thoughts and Prayers | Official Trailer | HBO

YouTube video by HBO

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

@dustysevens.bsky.social Always odd to get post on a Sunday night, but a neighbour who's been away for a fortnight has just passed on your postcard that was delivered to them in error. Glad they made the effort to return it to me - now starting a new category in my postcard collection.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Post a movie where you’re from. (Well almost.)

A still from the film The Goob, showing actor Liam Walpole (who plays Goob) on a moped, riding along an empty fenland road.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Love these photographs by @simoncroberts.com, that appear in a new book, After London, published by the people at Hoxton Mini Press. Not wholly sure they "invite us to imagine a future transmuted by climate crisis", however, regardless as to whether they do or don't, they're some first-class work.

An impressionistic photograph of The Shard in London, by Simon Roberts

An impressionistic photograph of the River Thames, and the Houses of Parliament in London, by Simon Roberts

An impressionistic photograph of St Paul's Cathedral in London, by Simon Roberts

An impressionistic photograph of the Grosvenor Bridge, and the Battersea Power Station building in London, by Simon Roberts

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Electronic Sound is always worth investing in - and this issue looks of particular interest. If nothing else am intrigued how "the thinking man's Limahl" (c) Smash Hits, aka Nik Kershaw, was involved in the Cold War.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

When Mrs Weir and I visited Oban way back when, we travelled down to Easedale while on an attempt to cross the "bridge over the Atlantic". On arriving, we found that the World Stone Skimming Championship was happening on Sunday, while we were heading home on Saturday. Timing's everything eh?

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Three years ago to the day the morning arrived enveloped in fog – far more suitable for Halloween than today’s bright sunshine. And as I was working in the office next door I took a few minutes to photograph this building - the Exorcist’s House, hunkered down in the shadow of St Nicholas’ Chapel.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I've visited all three of the locations mentioned in this short piece of film from 1964, which is perhaps no great surprise as they're all located less than a couple of miles from where I'm currently typing. Have never seen this before though, and it's great. youtu.be/QWTw3xoGhg4?...

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1964: Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I hadn't actually ever properly spotted a Goldcrest until the weekend. So I wasn't expecting a second sighting so soon, but today's walk in the woods achieved just that. A very welcome sighting too.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. The woods are gone. There’s a road called ‘The Woods’ there instead, containing a load of fucking ghastly overpriced executive houses with identical shiny light grey interiors and pointless giant clocks in their living rooms.

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Daniel Weir @mrdanielweir.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It's taken an age to do so, but this afternoon Mrs Weir and I managed to see a goldcrest, rather than just hear them up in the trees taunting us. Remarkably, we spotted three of them together in a hedge just three or four feet from us - a red-letter day :) © Francis C. Franklin CC-BY-SA-3.0

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Here begins a load of old photos from the Lost in a Landscape series, some I wrote about, some I didn’t, and the book will happen one day, but other stuff is going on, so not now. Seawall Eccles, Norfolk. #LostinaLandscape

A seawall only more so. It’s a curve and a vanishing point, it’s a barrier and a punch pointlessly returned to the sea.

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