March 2026 – the dim pause

Posted on March 30, 2026

Watched: Project Hail Mary, 2026 – ★★★½ 🎥

Everyman Cinema, Cardiff Bay

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Posted on March 30, 2026

🏏🔗 Darren Lehmann: England players do not play enough county cricket

Back to some cricket. The English County Championship starts in a few days – 3rd April, Good Friday – but the IPL 2026 started yesterday. The first match I’m going to watch has just started – Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders 🏏

Posted on March 29, 2026

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips (19 plays), Gorillaz (15), The Durutti Column (15), Sam Amidon (10)

Posted on March 29, 2026

Watched: I Swear, 2025 – ★★★½ 🎥

Posted on March 27, 2026

Watched: For All Mankind S5E1, First Light 📺

5⭐️

Posted on March 27, 2026

🔗 Book ban in Manchester school: Are we becoming Texas?

🔗 School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books

Articles from _Freedom News_ and _Index on Censorship_ 📚

Posted on March 26, 2026

Changeable. A short walk yesterday. It was windy, it rained a little, it snowed a little. Then the sun came out 🚶🌤️

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Posted on March 24, 2026

Watched: Under the Volcano, 1984 – ★★★★★ 🎥

Posted on March 22, 2026

🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, Mark Padmore, Alexandrina Pendatchanska RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs (45 plays), Tamar Inbar (39), Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Théorin, Paterson, Holloway, Baumgartner, Schukoff (26), Pekka Kuusisto, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra & Sam Amidon (13), John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic (5)