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HNY 2010

Original YT playout date: 3 February 2010
Duration: 10:46

The Dawn of a new Decade. Weighing in at 134 kgs these eleven and a half years ago, and this week I think I have about the same weight, but I am in ketosis so I expect to drop a bit soon.
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Into the Fading Twilight
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The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Sto...
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Sunset with migrating starlings and the beginnings of a tornado

Original YT playout date: 16 January 2010
Duration: 5:49

This interesting sky was filmed on my drive home last year one November evening. The song is a composition of mine which doesn’t have words yet, but I am thinking about plum trees with white blossom on, seen across the plain of a river in spring flood. If anyone wants to turn that into a lyric, be my guest. After that we have a fairly random scene where Sophie starts to do one of her extemporaneous “stories” while we are waiting for our takeaway to be ready. I’m not sure that what you see in the sky is really the beginning of a tornado, but at first glance it sort of looked like one. Not sure how else something like that would be there just on its own like that …
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The Calamity Club: A Novel
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Full-Cast Edition)
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One Highly Defined Saturday

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Original YT playout date: 16 January 2010
Duration: 13:25

A reminder of what my Saturdays used to look like all those years ago.
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The Mistake
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Full-Cast Edition)
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Teaching the Bengal Cat a taste for human blood

Original YT playout date: 27 December 2009
Duration: 2:24

They will play fight with Pushkin even when he’s not in the mood, and that’s when he shows them who’s boss…

Good for him, I say. Not an ounce of sympathy from me if a cat scratches you!
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Mad Mabel: A Novel
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Red Rising
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Relaxing on the Terrace

Original YT playout date: 25 December 2009
Duration: 18:59

A bit more footage from the terrace, from back in September 2009. It looks very different now. Most of the plants here didn’t go forward, the peonies were effectively annuals. The lilac is still alive, but even the dogwood went in the end, though I did last a good few years. The yuccas are still with us, the tamarisk not, or the roses. I think the junipers mainly lasted, but not even all of them.
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The Divorce
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 3
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