1 July ·
Can
anyone ID this bird? The song sounds like a yellowhammer, bit it
doesn't look like the ones I've seen online though I'm wondering if it's
a juvenile. Watch until the end to see how bright yellow the wings are
at the back - one reason why I'm not thinking that it's a siskin.
3 July ·
It's bandcamp Friday - here's some new noodlings.
3 July ·
We have become a grandmother! I was right! Tiny little thing in the feeding box. I've given it some
meaty Felix as those biscuits look like hard work for such a little one.
I'll have to get some kitten biscuits.
Nice tits shame about the face etc. Let's see yours.
6 July ·
Why
are they chucking all that money at the theatres? I thought it was the
royal family that brought all the tourist revenue to London.
6 July ·
Update: It's a Napoleon weaver bird.
Apparently, the bird that I thought was a yellowhammer isn't. Someone
who knows more about yellow birds than I do has suggested that it's an
escaped weaver bird of some sort.
9 July ·
Didn't
realise I was on this and had an eye on the TV weather so got a bit of a
shock when I just heard myself shouting 'cunt, cunt, cunting cunt'.
11 July ·
Chuffed
that my track 'I'll Stay on the Bus' got some airplay on 'When Big Joan
Sets Up' on Bradford Community Radio last night thanks to Phil Cope
AND he likened it to Ivor Cutler. High praise indeed. #BlowingMyOwnTrumpet #NoIHaventActuallyGotATrumpet It's free to download if anyone wants it.
11 July ·
How exciting, I'm on this too! You can hear my poem 'Your Horoscope' that I spliced with some of Owen Tingle's synth samples. https://radiotrouble-archives.blogspot.com/2020/07/radio-trouble-episode-301-range-of.html
12 July ·
I'm
off to bed. Here's another track that got played on an eclectic podcast
this week. I'm an avante-garde musician now dontcha know. Make sure you
listen to your horoscope so that you'll know how to survive the next
mass extinction.
13 July ·
Out
of focus, but here's Roger the mystery bird (Napoleon Weaver aka yellow
crowned bishop) today. His plumage is changing and his breast is almost
completely black. Apparently, the males have this bright plumage during
the breeding season but are quite drab: brownish and white like the
females when not in the breeding season. Obvs there's no ladies about
for him so I've started imagining a scenario where he builds a beautiful
home for a jilted sparrow and they live happily ever after rearing some
alpha sparrow's bastards. Thus far he seems to be surviving; I've moved
the bird feeder into the lilac so the sparrow hawk can't get him.
13 July ·
#ICYMI
Here's Friday's 'When Big Joan Sets Up' which includes a track from me -
also the cover of 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon' that follows is quite
something.
15 July ·
June
round up. I think I'm archiving these so that at some point in the
future, when I look back at this time, I won't remember it as the
fucking void that it feels like sometimes.
https://helendthomas.blogspot.com/2020/07/june-2020-pandemic-round-up.html
16 July ·
I
have no idea why Donald Trump is advertising beans but seeing as, here
in the UK, a 'trump' is a massive expulsion of offensive gas from a
person's bum end, it seems quite apt.
18 July ·
This old thing got some radio play last night.
18 July ·
As
someone on twitter said, "Boris Johnson said he 'loved' fox hunting in a
'semi-sexual' way. We truly are governed by a Prick." And now it looks
like he's putting thicko Ian Botham in the House of Lords, that's Botham
who loves killing birds for fun.
19 July ·
#ICYMI Proper toe tapping one this - my track is probably the quietest most downtempo thing on there, can you believe it?
20 July ·
Has anyone else caught themselves wondering how long it's going to take for all the stupid people to die?
22 July ·
I don't need to do yoga - getting up off the lawn when I'm weeding is like a fucking work out.
30 July ·
Fucking hell, I just fell down a death metal rabbit hole on bandcamp. Someone needs a lozenge.
