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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Then Hare & Hounds for a very clear White Rat, and the Younger Turk for a Holts bitter.

A very clear bitter drink on a wooden bar with the hand pull behind it.

A half pint of beer in a glass on a wooden table, with the lights off the bar on the background.

Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And now Black Jack Brew, at the food hall for tea. I asked for a recommendation (avoiding IPAs, there are too many), got 3 samples of Pale Ales, and picked one. Very nice, while I'm waiting for people to turn up.

This is a brewery in a food hall. The bar is green frontage with chalk signs of the brewery and the beers it's serving. A man in a colourful shirt is standing at the bar.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I came across this in the latest phase of sorting through my dad's things. It's a scene from Cornwall, 1980. I love the colours & composition, a reduced palette, painted by my dad. I miss him, there aren't many opportunities to recognise that within myself. I send this picture out to the ether.

This is a watercolour painting. It's still in a pad, and is mainly blue as a palette. It is a plain picture of a Cornish tin mine on the moors (is that right for Cornwall?), with a smoking chimney.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Me: If I keep focussed, I'll get the stuff out of the garage and to the tip, and then bottle the beer. Also me: Hey, how about I drill a water bottle to make drinking easier in the van?

This is a steel water bottle on a wooden worktop, with cream tiles behind. It has an opaque tube in the lid. That's a syphon tube repurposed from brewing.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Following on from the brew day, I've never known liquor run so clear. There was a lot of wheat, and a burnt ring of grist on the base after the mash and boil, despite stirring. The yeast took over a day to get really active, but it's foaming now!

A large boiler is in a black insulation cover, on a wooden trolley, on grey decking. There is a black chilling coil on top of the boiler. There is a red brick wall behind.

This is clear liquor running in a mash, in a metal boiler. There are 2 other barrels in shot. This is taken from above.

This is where the magic happens. This is a glass carboy fermentation vessel on a shelf in a fridge. There is dark liquid wort in the carboy with thick white foam on top. There is a red handle on the carboy to help lift it.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The highlight of Preston Park's festival today is The Flaming Lips. Yoshimi BTPR, The Golden Path, Do You Realise? and a stonking cover of Black Sabbath's War Pigs. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds next 🤘🏻

This is the main stage at Brighton's Preston Park. The crowd is along the bottom, there is 1 screen on either side of the stage, and there is an inflatable rainbow on stage.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's mango season in Bradford UK. The first time I've been out to get some boxes from the vans parked up. I was going to make mango chutney, but wow, these are honey mangoes (sp?) and are just too good for that. Delicious!

These are 3 cardboard boxes stacked on a wooden worksurface. The box top features yellow mangoes.

We have eaten 3 between 2 of us. This is the fourth yellow mango in a pale yellow sheet is tissue paper in an open box. It looks like a potato, but it's so much nicer.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Last night I finished the '5 minute job' of bottling 2 beers. The bitter is a Worthington White Shield style & finished at 5.7%. The Bière de Garde mixed-fermentation was drier than the original, as expected, but the dregs I used tasted 'flat' later, so I'm hoping that doesn't drag this brew down.

This is a table covered with a black rubber mat, with 2 groups of glass bottles. There's a white plastic fermentation tub behind them, and a yellow plastic bottle stand. In the front, under the table is a cloth to catch the drips from the bottling process. There's a big green Monstera plant at the back, and pictures on the wall.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

2 photos to save as a memory for later in the year when it's colder, the view from inside the van. This is overlooking the start of the Baltic Sea, maybe I brew another Baltic Porter when I get back.

This is taken from the motorhome doorway, facing over the Baltic sea. The grass is in the foreground, there's a bit of sand visible, then the sea. There's the awning leg to the right.

A photo of the sea, a lot of grass in the foreground, and the awning from the van. There's a tree on the right growing in the low grassy cliff.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

2 sides of motorhome touring through Germany up to Denmark. Rural buildings and local beers, mainly helle, pils and kellerbier. The rain has moved on from our forecasts and it's warm. Denmark tonight.

This is a red brick and wood structure in Saxony, Germany. It has wooden doors and an inscription over them. It has green trees on either side. We passed it when we stopped for a walk around Dummersee.

This is an aisle in a German drink supermarket. The floor is pale stone, there are multicoloured labels on the crates on either side. Mainly beer here, and soft drinks.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Palm Lager put on tonight with Skare yeast, which is a make do beer - a lager kit with brew/invert/palm sugar and hopefully a Kveik that will take off tonight 🤞🏻. Now enjoying a smoked Fastenbier from Schlenkerla.

This is an Inkbird temperature controller. It's a small case with red numbers showing the current temperature and the desired temperature. It's hanging off a fridge side, also known as my brew chamber. This is trying to get a Kveik yeast up to high temperatures for a lager kit. There is a yellow bungee cord above it, and its manual below it.
Humble brag - I broke it carelessly, and managed to mend it, handy since this model isn't sold anymore.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In Ellen Barkin's voice "Night time in the big city, no-one stirs. The water has seen it all but isn't talking." Bristol bridges at night.

This is under a bridge in Bristol, at night. The brick wall is light brown with yellow and black graffiti. The pavement is white and the water reflects the graffiti.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Peak bourgeoisie! My first crop of wild garlic uncovered from surrounding weeds. Just need to grow polenta and I'll be sorted.

A photo from above. This is of an earth border, centred on green leaves of wild garlic. There are green mossy rocks and other weeds, but this is the first year I've grown some to make trendy pesto.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hello trans friends, if you have any <cough, cough> spare chocolate, can you send it my way? Because, obviously, you have nothing better to do than plot high visibility chocolate crime during this time of persecution. Big hugs x

This is a picture of Liz Truss, the temporary PM who tanked the UK economy and now does the far right circuit. She is wearing a red top, seated at a desk in front of a bookcase. The text on the picture says she's suggesting an underground transgender mafia stole some kitkats recently. If you like Liz, Reform, the Tories, please unfollow me.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

2 loaves tonight, with sourdough, plain flour, and granary flour. I'm in the "Don't read up, and chuck things together" camp, and yet harbour a little disappointment that these aren't huge. Go figure. Kernel's Imperial Brown Stout is in the glass.

2 loaves on a cooling rack. They are light brown and covered in seeds, onions and garlic (Trader Joe's bagel mix). Behind them is a frosted glass with a dark beer within. They are all on a pale wooden work surface. I love bread and beer, but can only make one of them well.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

OK, it doesn't help with your house, but these are our stats. 5 rooms, large space to fill, wifi devices at 3 corners of the house, 3 people on work and social media working fine. The study device was the problem placement but I get a signal in the Faraday cage of that room.

Screenshot of network routers/repeaters and current usage.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Racking off the Bière de Garde this morning and bottling when I get time. There'll be a demijohn with brett to see how that develops. I had 1 demijohn with a barley wine on mixed yeasts but with the suck back on the tube I used, I couldn't risk bottling it and getting ill. Airlock this time!

A clear glass carboy on a wooden worktop. It has a red handle and white froth in the bottom from the cleaning liquid. The dark oven top is visible through it.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Dr Who style foam, step 4 of the mash process. The sparge water is on heating in the 1970s Baby Burco, let's see if the Grainfather app is right or it's too little. No rain!

The brew is further along, there is a lot of light brown foam on top of the black brew tub. There is a white burco boiler on the left for the sparge water, and red gloves to the right. I used those to remove the cover and stir the grist.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Brew day, finally. Getting the Bière de Garde on for a May competition. The plastic tub holds my malt and is a memory from starting brewing with my brother and grandad. It was a Boots brew kit from maybe 40 years ago 😳. Hopefully the rains hold off. #brewsky #beersky

This is my outdoor brewery setup. There is a red striped tarpaulin covering my brew tub. The brew tub is steel, covered by a black insulation cover. There is a white plastic tub next it, with a red lid and a steel stirrer on the lid. They are on grey decking.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A Japanese frosty glass for tonight's beer. I love the "Abigail's Party" vibe of the basket which I bought in an Oxfam charity shop, just what I was looking for. Cantillon Gueuze Bio from 2020. Rejigged some travel plans, so brought Brussels to me instead. Cheers!

A glass of beer next to a green bottle in a wicker pouring basket.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

It's not often I have the glass for the beer & I'm marking off 57 years on this planet before adding another year tomorrow. A 5 year old Orval for tonight. I can't remember the fresh taste, but this is a funky tartness, still fizzy (the 1st bottle was a gusher). #brewsky #beersky

A dark brown bottle of Orval on the left, next to a glass of that beer to the right. The glass is low, gold rimmed, with a chunky stem, and black lettering. They're both on a pale wood work surface in front of cream tiles.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

From last week, I'd forgotten about this bottle till well after Christmas. Never had it before, really nice. I was surprised to find it tasted more like a British ale than a Belgian beer.

Glass of beer, next to a green beer bottle of Père Noël. Both are on a pale wooden worktop in front of cream tiles.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Glass: Where you from? Beer: Leeds. B: Where are you from? G: Leeds, as well. Sunday's beer is local to me, with 6music in the background and beginning spaghetti bolognaise for dinner. A medievalist drinking a beer inspired by early modern era events. Niche, and very Eurocentric, please excuse.

A glass of beer with a frothy head next to a brown bottle of beer. The glass is clear, with Northern Monk written on it and an outline of the brewery. The bottle is a Kirkstall Brewery Dissolution IPA. Both are on a wooden worktop in front of cream tiles.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A nice Schlenkerla smoked beer tonight. The oak variety, rather than beech, and slightly stronger, at 8%. Good health.

A grey stone stein, and a brown beer bottle together on a light brown wooden worktop with cream tiles behind. The stein has a metal lid, and beer bottle has a green label. It's a smoked beer, very nice, from my Christmas collection.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Friday's beer is from my archives, aka pulled from a box of beer saved from years gone by. It's very fizzy (foam kept flowing out of the bottle), the oak is pronounced, as expected. That I have the right glass is a coincidence; it's my go-to glass. Good health to you all.

A bottle and glass on a light brown wooden work surface, in front of light brown tiles. The dark brown bottle contains Straffe Hendrik Xmas Blend 2022. The glass is clear, a large broad tulip shape, and coincidentally is also a Straffe Hendrik glass.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer - the new-to-me Christmas tradition, alongside reading a new book! #Jólabókaflóðið #christmasbookswap

My book swap read for this Christmas. The image is a red book, entitled City of Vengeance. It's a signed copy too!

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In return, here's a photo of some cushions.

A blue sofa, covered in a cream quilt, with cushions, one of which is 'cat shaped'.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is mine for this time of year. Orval tonight.

A Christmas glass with beer, on a table cloth with a green holly leaf pattern. The glass has a Santa with red elf helpers, and the words Merry Christmas.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Headed over to The Irish Centre in Leeds last night to see The Dirty Three. What a cracking gig, the best drumming I've heard for a while, great repartee from Warren Ellis, including a long surreal intro on depression, travel & locating Satan, hiding as Billy Joel in his Philadelphian hot dog shop.

Three men on a stage, violinist on the left, drummer in the middle, guitarist on the right. The violinist is wearing a LIDL Christmas jumper. The lighting is gold and there's a crowd of people in the bottom of this shot.

Three men on a stage, keyboard player on the left, drummer in the middle, guitarist on the right. The lighting is red and there's a crowd of people in the bottom of this shot.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I started off a frittata on the stove top, then oven at lunch before taking calls. It rose up like a soufflé but has fallen back down. Lunch tomorrow sorted. Thanks to my brother's hens' eggs. Eggs & onions only. I've had potatoes in before now, but not tied into either of the opposing groups.

This is an egg frittata in a green container on a pale wooden worktop, with the lid just in shot.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I blame the neighbours for putting up their lights and making me feel festive. This must be the right glass for Stille Nacht.

De Dolle's Stille Nacht Christmas beer, with a Father Christmas glass and bottle opener, on a red table cloth.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A delightful sour from my 'forget it' stock that I've just got out last month. It's still fizzy, there are floral notes, citrus too, wine undertones and ginger coming up afterwards. It's a great delicate brew, just sad that they're not brewing any more, but an inspiration to try this style myself.

A brown bottle of Cascade Coral Horizon 2018 on a wooden worktop. The label is white with orange, and black text. The glass is selected to be a 'sour' glass, it's filled with golden beer. There's the wire cork capsule in front, and part of my daughter's Happy Birthday sign on the beige tiles behind.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I've got the stein, but I'm not in München or with a Festbier. Happy Oktoberfest y'all, I'm kicking back with a Kees St Brandarius Barrel Project Imperial Stout. Good stuff, warming, and I'd forgotten what non lactose/flavoured brews were like. #brewsky #beersky

A grey stone 500ml beer stein is on a wooden worktop. The stein has the word München on it and a picture of the city. The stein has a grey metal lid. It's my favourite.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The Duvel clone is forming a pellicle, not had chance to get one of those before. This should be interesting to taste before bottling. The original dregs were from a mixture of beers but ended up oxygenated without an airlock so I'm hoping I caught them early enough here. #brewsky.

This is a clear glass carboy filled with a dark brown Duvel clone beer. The carboy has a red rubber seal on the top. The liquid has the start of a white pellicle forming on top of it, which is due to the yeasts and other goodness I added for a bit of funkiness.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

👋🏻 Looks good in the Summer sun. Coincidentally passing by today.

The front of the hotel, a long ornate, light brown façade with cars parked outside.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A memory day at Glastonbury. And it's only Thursday. Very lucky and glad to be here.

This picture is the Tree Stage at Glastonbury, with people in the foreground, a red screen and a man on a stage; Alexis Taylor.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It's taken a while, but I'm finally on the bus to pick up the van and head to Glastonbury. It's been a journey to get to this point, never mind Somerset today.

The picture is sideways (rotate didn't work) and is of 2 bags on top of each other. The top bag is cream and says Glastonbury is calling and I must go. The bottom bag is full of shopping, at a bus stop in the rain as I set off to go to Glastonbury.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Cracked open a saison (a Blaugies yeast) with additional fermentation with yeast from the backyard fruit. A soft tang, I wouldn't say sour, and enjoyable after a 2 year rest in the bottle. Please excuse the label, I never got round to soaking it off. #brewsky.

The picture is of a glass with pale beer in front of a dark brown bottle reclining in a bottle basket, on a wood worktop.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I managed to move my stuff round the office, dismantle a wardrobe and stick a shelf in for the record player. Divorce's first album gets an airing first. Crazy price I paid for the, er, vibration damping platform underneath the player 😁 Where's the cat? I now have room to swing it.

The picture shows a Billy IKEA bookcase, with tools, plant pots, Portuguese pottery musicians, various bowls, speakers, a record player, plants and my junk.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I brewed a Duvel clone & split it into 2 vessels, 1 as-is, 1 with Brett/mixed yeasts/bacteria. A starter from 2 Duvel bottles certainly proved powerful. 😂🤦🏼‍♂️ It's ramping up from 21°C to 28°C over 11 days. Unhelpfully, the iSpindel ran out of charge but the Inkbird is accurate on temperatures.

This is a large metal boiler covered in a black insulating jacket on a flat brown trolley, under a wooden pulley system. It has a tub with hop bines behind it.

This is a white fermentation vessel with handles, and with liquid overflowing from the airlock.

This is where the magic happens. This is a tall fridge with the door open, holding 2 vessels. The top vessel is white plastic holding a Duvel clone. The bottom vessel is a clear glass carboy holding a Duvel clone but with assorted Brettanomyces and wild yeasts, and bacteria as well.
There is an Inkbird controller on the side to help maintain the right stepped temperatures.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A superb 1st edition 😁 I dug this out to calculate some hop substitutions, and remembered I'd first brewed with grains in 1993 😳

A book resting on a worksurface. The cover shows a man holding up a pint of beer, surrounded by brewing kit. This is from 1993. Heaven.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My wife is making Easter chocolate crispy cakes. I've included the results, which signify gratitude, satisfaction, and endorphins. Mmmmmmmmm ❤️

This photo shows a light blue plate with 2 empty bin cases, crumbs, and a white fluffy Easter bunny toy, on a black table top.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm fermenting a barley wine with kveik. Has anyone had experience of the yeast not starting? That's happened on two different types I've bought. I added a second type & it's halfway through, delayed by me breaking the heating controls 🤦🏼‍♂️. I've siphoned some off onto mixed sour dregs as a trial.

There is a brown glass demijohn with an elbow air lock, next to a glass jar containing mixed yeasts, with a red lid on the wooden worktop. There is also a bowl with a measuring tube full of beer and hydrometer.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I'm starting up a yeast farm for mixed cultures. I've never enjoyed research as much! So far, de Dolle, Old Goat, & Rodenbach into 1 jar, & I'll keep the bretts in another. What styles have you used mixed yeasts successfully, & which were, well, unadvisable?

A large glass jar with a red plastic lid. It holds a brown liquid, it's wort and mixed yeasts. There's a Duvel glass holding beer next to the jar. This is my kitchen.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's been a tough month for physical & mental health in the family, a horrible time & we're not through it all yet. However, there are some steps towards improvements, which is such a relief. Tonight is the start of some changes, & I celebrate with a recent birthday present of a stein.

A German stone stein on a wooden worktop in front of an enamel bread bin. The stein is for Klosterbrauerei Kreuzberg. There is a Giesinger Helles beer in the stein.

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Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Seems an idea to play this to soundtrack my day. I saw the film A Complete Unknown on Monday. Good film, Timothee played him well. An oft-grumpy individual mistreating people whilst breaking free of the limited expectations forced on him.

The album Highway 61 Revisited is on top of a record player. The cover shows Bob looking at us, in a multicoloured shirt over a t shirt showing a Triumph motorbike. He's holding sunglasses and someone is standing behind him holding a camera.

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