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Team Alien

Somewhere in Denge Marsh a group of Aliens have “Gone on holiday by mistake”. A nearby static caravan site of Romney Sands attracted the visitors advertising a thrilling stay. Close to the hum of Dungeness Power station, the aliens take shelter in the abandoned gravel pits next to the concrete acoustic radar dishes. They’ve been stuck there for about 40 years now and are largely unnoticed. They quite like our music and the decent chips from the nearby Pilot pub but there is now a creeping sense of Ennui with the human race and it’s limitless stupidity.

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Timelapse

Slightly bored and restless I built a Raspberry Pi Zero powered time-lapse camera from cheap bits.

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Robyn Hitchcock - On Songwriting

A companion piece to John Edginton’s documentary “Robyn Hitchcock:Sex,Food,Death…and Insects”. Robyn discusses his songwriting process while trying out four unfinished songs.

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Writing - Begone Squirrels

I often think about writing and every now and again I will have tentative go at it. I’m very much enjoying “Closer To The Edge” on Substack as it’s clearly in the style of Hunter S. Thompson who is someone we really could do with to eviscerate the whole Shit-show of what is happening in the U.S. right now with the likes of Trump and Musk.

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Dog

“Dog” by artist Diego De La Rosa. oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches 2022.

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Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse

“This Be The Verse” is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin. It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows

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