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Living Room Festival Night

I now feel prepared for a bit of Faithless at the Isle of Wight Festival, via Sky Arts this evening, in my living room. Beer, candles, disco ball, laser, fog machine, coloured LEDs. Let’s have it. A nice warm up…

Massive Attack

I just saw Massive Attack in Manchester. Magnificent music, many songs unexpectedly accompanied by video visuals from the fantastic history documentary maker Adam Curtis. It couldn’t have been a better combination. What a gig!

Orderaround – Manchester

I’ve finally crossed the Pennines for maps – Manchester is done! I’ve covered both the full district and the city centre, with versions in both portrait and landscape formats. I posted about it in as many Manchester groups as I…

Hera Loss

I never wanted to get to post this. I have said goodbye to my best friend and companion of 13 years. My dog Hera was put to sleep this afternoon. I feel inconsolable, and I have lost a lot of…

McLetters Page

I think the whole McLetters episode is now finally over, so I’ve made an unnecessarily extensive webpage about it all because it’s been so big and weird. And here’s a link to the radio segment that was broadcast today: https://stevenlovell.org/…/uploads/Absolute-Clip-2-24k.mp3

Employee of the Month?

Oh. My. God. The White Rose Shopping Centre jokingly made me their “Employee of the Month”, for the work I did on restoring their McD. And to be clear, I have no affiliation with, and I do not work for…

McD

The seating area of McDonald’s at the White Rose Shopping centre has been missing the counter from the “D” for a few years. Today I got round to fixing it for them. I took a photo to get the scale…

Gerald Ball

I recently acquired my late dad’s bowling ball. It’s not good to sell and I don’t want to just put it in the bin. Consequently, I’m going to send him out into the wilderness, with a note. Where shall I…

Old Screwfix catalogue

I just surreptitiously deposited an unopened 21 year old Screwfix catalogue in my local branch, just to cause the slightest bit of confusion or wonderment.