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📸 230926 🖇️ #MBSept
Beverage line 1 - where ‘Establishment 1’ could teach ‘Establishment 2’ a thing or two about attracting a crowd.
Beverage line 2 - where ‘Establishment 2’ could teach ‘Establishment 1’ a thing or two about providing a relaxed environment.
There’s always a balance!
Bonus? The word ‘beverage’ appears in both photographs.
Just updated my ‘🖇️ Places I have lived and visited’ list to include Poland. Got here last night … heading back on Sunday,
It takes a lot of energy not to trust someone.
Heathrow Is So Special … And Not In A Good Way.
The bag and its contents (not always the same - but pretty darn similar) has flown ‘in cabin’ all over America, to and from Mexico, down to New Zealand, around New Zealand across to Oz and back, then returning to America through Hawaii and onwards across to London … not a single problem.
Terminal 5, Heathrow … 45 minutes stood at security analyzing and rescanning that very same bag three times. Some items thrown away … like a small bottle of perfume, creams etc. Some items packaged up and in around 48 hours you can go online - pay the ransom fee and have it shipped to an address in the UK .. good job we had one.
They wanted to confiscate the medications .. no we don’t have the prescriptions with us, but if someone dies are you prepared to accept the consequences?
In the end, one small bottle of perfume thrown away was the most expensive item, but maybe 10 others also disposed of … several other bottles packaged up into a plastic bag … in the next couple of days, we can log on … pay the ransom and have the balance shipped to the UK address. It was totally unclear why;
- some items were destroyed
- others were repackaged to be sent ‘home’
- whilst others were given to me, so I could travel with them … Jax couldn’t
I asked if we had checked the bag, would it have been ok? No problem at all sir.
And then I just couldn’t resist. Can you explain why all of these containers are a problem … after all, they are all below the publicised amounts allowed. Oh yes sir… that’s not the problem, there are just too many of them. So, I went in to ask … where do I find the regulation that describes the total number off containers am I allowed?
Blank looks.
“Leave it John”
Adding insult to injury … get to the gate and told that it is a full flight … ‘that bag’ needs to be checked in.
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With Champagne you could have not just ‘a day in a life’ … but more importantly ‘a life in a day’.
📸 230922🖇️ #MBSept
This is ‘The Road to Hana’ … just not the one that everyone else travels on … maybe because a different part of it is ‘giving way to the Ocean’?
📸 230920🖇️ #MBSept
Disruption isn’t new. Disruption isn’t always about Silicon Valley. Disruption isn’t ’American’. Imagine the disruption to people’s lives in the tiny hamlet of Akaroa when this was installed in 1901.
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You might not think of wine as fabric, but with the right wine in the right hands, it can be just that … if not the very foundation of ‘good society’. Clearly the French agree. You just have to read the label.
🎵 Back in the day, a gentleman by name of Pete Frame produced two stunning 📚books … Rock Family Trees. Hand drawn ‘family trees’ of Rock Giants at the time.
I know of Theo Travis because of his work over the years with Steven Wilson, but also as a performer in his own right and then most recently with Soft Machine, which is how he came to write 🖇️ John Marshall’s obit’.
Family Trees tend to be very hierarchical, so I plugged the two threads together and then added 50 years of humanity.
‘Hierarchy’ is old school. ‘Networked’ is new school’.
How cool would it be to choose (say) 50 musicians like Theo and build networks of
- the people he has played with (studio and live) as
- one offs or over a prolonged period of time and
- inside bands and as a solo artist
It needs to be someone like Theo … a wide enough eclectic career to be interesting but not so overwhelming it becomes meaningless. For example someone like Bowie would just be a page of lines.
Just #SpitBallingHere
🔗 Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – so many red flags ignored for so long.
From demeaning sexual remarks on radio to offering his assistant naked to Jimmy Savile, every disturbing detail of this cogent documentary makes it mind-boggling that these alleged abuses have taken so long to surface.
Exactly.
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Our first promotion of Stop Child Traffic was as intense as the intense chocolates that made up the floor prizes at the IIW. But nowhere near as intense as the next three years.
P.S. … we know the chocolates were intense … it says so, right there on the packet.
I am no fan of Brand … as I have 🖇️ 🔎 previously touched on … so this comes as no surprise. Of course, I have no idea of the truth and we don’t yet know the story … but where there’s smoke etc etc.
🔗 Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.
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Pretty sure this qualifies as a statue. I mean, I’ve got others, but to riff on the words of Mr. Dundee …
Call that a statue? This is a statue.
