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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also, the idea that ‘a Pret’ signifies anything is a bit daft.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even Slough means a change. I guess there’s a bus, but good luck with suitcases and excited/tired kids.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cover isn’t messing around either.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘Oscar is unbothered’ my arse.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Home-made tinto verano. You’re welcome.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mahou totally dominates Madrid, but I do really like this. You quickly ditch all the English ‘ale’ rules when it’s 30-plus in September. Si, con hielo por fav.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well they won by a bigger margin with an odd number of votes than she was leading by with an odd number of votes, and in between they were tied on (obviously) an even number of votes, so that means if x-y<(y-x)/2 and y-x=2x then… it was close.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

State of these two. Whatever Creation Records mod-psych lightness of touch they used to have has been utterly destroyed by money and cocaine. And that’s just the fashion choices. Not even the music.

Liam and Noel Gallagher out of the pop group Oasis looking like they’re struggling to do a shit.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What’s the matter real-ale boy? Afraid of some refreshment?

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yellow Submarine was in this, which every primary school seemed to have in the 70s.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is one of them ‘stop talking about mediocre old rock bands’?

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What’s going on with this price? How on earth do you prove that a ‘sealed’ CD is ‘still sealed’ and not just ‘recently sealed’?

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cormac McCarthy, making sentences as long - or as short - as they need to be.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Went to CeX. Bought all of the television.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

‘Ocean Rain’-ing it up in Galicia. It’s like someone put the west coast of Scotland in a glasshouse.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Escape to the north. Always good advice.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s a ‘look’ isn’t it. They all have the same look. It must be a thing designed for teenage girls, because based on a sample of one (me) it’s an instant ‘twat’ signifier to middle-aged men.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

RIP Bill Oddie. He served his country bravely.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It doesn’t get much better than ‘back home, red wine, The Cure In Orange’.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If Argentina win from THIS the rules need changing.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

North to Galicia for the week. Highly recommended. Great beaches, great food and great weather.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Ah right, cos ‘0’ is a universally recognised symbol for having scored something.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Wouldn’t normally share, but very proud of this one. #Chess #DuoLingo

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Shove your Benidorm. I’m sticking with the amazing beaches in Galicia.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Heading to Galicia for the week. Sweet relief.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Cape Verde is here, by the way. Save you Googling.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

T20 Major League US cricket giving me strong ‘me and 2 other people watching a Thai film in The Cornerhouse screen 3 on a weekday afternoon’ vibes. Happy days.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This led to me googling Martí Caine for reasons not clear, and blimey, I didn’t know this…

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Guess WHERE Starmer has released his statement condemning the riots in Belfast? Go on, have a guess which white supremacist you would be making even richer if you clicked on that link…

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

People have got wise to this one already.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

‘I got sunshine to lead as emmy quaye. Where I mayba afernoo…. My eye eye girl…’ Anyone have the faintest idea what this is? 5-inch reel found in a second-hand shop in Madrid. My Girl, with completely indecipherable lyrics.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Nowhere near as cool as a Solitude 78, but… The Billy Mayerl Personal Demonstration Course In Modern Syncopation For Pianoforte. Five slabs of shellac in a card-bound book. 1929.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

No SFA ever on any Now! release.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of my daily school-run things in Madrid is that Plaza de España station has the entire text on the walls. Measuring my language progress by how many of the - often funny - chapter titles I understand.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One for our Central European comrades. Pat and Mat.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just ‘burnt’ a ‘CD’ called ‘Boomkat 14 Tracks’ ‘Not Not Fun’ and I suddenly feel 15 years younger.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

They did it with another Etienne.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think 34pc Lab vote in the poorer end of Chorley is still noteworthy.

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Simon Smith @simonsmith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Now playing. Bought from Action Records in Preston on (I think) the same day as Vulvaland by Mouse On Mars. Quite the detour for a Sarah Records-fanboy. Still one of my favourite albums ever. Turn up the bass… #NowPlaying

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