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I'd like to reassure you, but I'm not that kind of guy. Memorial Device ANT.

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errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 3d

Night time visitor patrolling the garden again.

A hedgehog on a lawn facing to your right. As it's night time, it's not very clear but possibly a light is reflected in an eye.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 11d

Sunday afternoon vibes

A hi-fi/cd player with the case of The Orb's 'adventures beyond the ultraworld deluxe edition' on top; a black cover with the title in white across the top and an abstract design of multi-pointed star, circles, red arcs and a trailing purple wave off to the right.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 12d

July's Bookpile: matters of myth, folklore, trees and tides. Interesting reading all; pleased to venture further into @hookland.bsky.social.

A pile of books on a bench with their spines to view, mainly paperbacks, with one book stood behind with the title showing.

In no specific order, the books are:
Donovan Hohn Moby Duck

Laurence Mitchell Flint

Patrick Taylor. Timber Circles in the East

Charlie Watson Seahenge: An Archeological Conundrum

Mark Fisher The Weird and the Eerie

Roger Deakin Wildwood

Robert Holdstock Mythago Wood

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451

David Southwell Hookland Fragments vol 1

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 16d

Goodnight @hookland.bsky.social, I'm going in....

A book, 'Hookland Fragments' with a black and white cover illustrated with a bear juggling bones while a horses skull looks on, on a garden bench in the fading evening light.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 17d

What's your sign?

An old white wooden sign with 'BEWARE LOW FLYING OWLS' in black capitals on it.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 17d

Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains

A sepia photo of Guy Chadwick sat in front of a fireplace with a bunch of flowers at the front right; Guy is staring out of the picture at the viewer, wearing dark clothes with his hands lightly clasped to the left. He looks slightly quizzical, as if bemused to be on the cover of his first solo record instead of a House of Love album.

His name is in capitals across the middle and the album title, 'Lazy, soft and slow', in handwriting under it.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 19d

Moonwatching. Suspect the discoloration may be due to the ash from Dovestones fire blowing west. Tonight though, the drama of the terminator line, especially in black and white, highlighting crater walls, if not their floors...

The moon at about first quarter: a crescent in light brown/orange. Some details picked out of crater walls as the sunlight touches them.

A hazy, almost half moon. Still slightly brown with details of the plains ('Seas') obvious.

A three-quarter moon in an orangey-brown. A crater (named Copernicus) is obvious on the equator just beyond the dark of the terminator line, which marks the line of the lunar sunrise.

A black and white picture of a three-quarter moon, focussing on the terminator line. At the top, a crescent of rim walls of the crater Plato are visible even though the rest of the crater is in darkness.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· 25d

Pleasant Sunday afternoon in the garden with a good book and bees flitting in and out of their home in a compost bin. There's a bustling in the hedgerow behind me, but I think it's just a blackbird.

A photograph close-up of a bumble bee walking over some stalks of grass, looking as if it is heading to the bottom left of the picture.

It looks very furry.

A bee entering the gap between the shell of a black plastic compost heap and a plastic screen. Some green grass shoots cross the picture while some light brown dead grass is to one side.

The cover of a paperback book in mottled sunshine; the sunlight illuminates the title, 'Wildwood' and subtitle, 'A journey through trees' and the authors surname, Deakin'.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jul 10

Happy birthday!

A celebratory emoji: streamers and stars

A birthday cake emoji. Looks like a vanilla sponge with three candles (sixty one less than today requires) and six small cupcakes. Hundreds and thousands scattered liberally all over.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jul 2

I have honestly been thinking of reading this...

A Penguin Modern Classics book cover: Anna Kavan's 'Ice'. A simple sketch of a woman in headscarf and long dress in a circle constructed of arc's. The colour scheme is greys and white with black lines.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jul 1

The June reading pile. Three read for the second time, at least two to be reread at some time.

A pile of books, hardback and paperback, stacked in a pile with the titles on the spines visible. Behind is a sage bush, home to a variety of ladybirds and their aphids. The authors and books are:

Jenny Erpenbeck The Old Child/The Book of Words

Paul Hanley Das Gruppe at Band on the Wall

Jamie Woodward VSI: The Ice Age

Jasper fforde Lost in a Good Book

M John Harrison. The End of Everything

Brian Fagan The Little Ice Age

Jemma Wadham Rivers of Ice

Glyn Hughes Millstone Grit

Sam Weller Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jun 27

This one...

A hand holding a paperback book. Top third us a picture of a black dog crossing some shallow water. Then in large green capitals, the author's name GEOFF DYER. And under this ZONA, the title in black capitals.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jun 22

This one!

A book cover: black background with M John Harrison in white at the top and the title, 'The End of Everything' in light blue. The title lettering is filled with an image which continues to the bottom of the cover, of a person in the distance on a beach with the sea in the background.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jun 18

And you may say to yourself it's only furniture And you may say to yourself there's no room for it And you may say to yourself anniversaries are close And you may say to yourself

A partly dismantled Ladderax unit; two side panels and the crossbrace remain with a shelving unit at the top; shelves are propped up nearby and a vacuum cleaner is on the floor to clear dust.

A line of small, ornamental glass elephants, decreasing in size, originally linking trunks and tails, but bits have broken over the years. They are arranged on a window ledge with slate rooftops in the background.

A dried Honesty leaf on a wooden surface.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jun 17

Your last saved image is your current mental state.

A poster from a Manchester pub window advertising Monday night salsa sessions.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jun 14

Hope this helps.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Jun 8

Text on a screen; to the side, a picture of Mark E Smith from his left side as he looks towards the camera. Microphones on a stage in front of the screen. If I'd thought, I could have lined up one of the mic's to near his mouth, but nevermind.

The text reads:
''Scratch the surface of English suburbia and you'll see a bored bloke looking back at you asking what you're up to. We're not talking David Lynch here, it's not as lurid as that. But that makes it all the more interesting. Like, why is that person peering out of his window so early in the morning anyway?'

Futures and Pasts would like to thank Mark E. Smith for his incomparable contribution to music and culture.'

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· May 31

The May Bookpile; memoir heavy, fiction light. Much on loneliness in various forms, some interesting routes to pursue forwards...

A pile of books, spines read (in no particular order):
Clive James - Unreliable Memoirs

Jeanette Winterson - Why be happy when you could be normal?

Haruki Murakami - What I talk about when I talk about running

Olivia Laing - The Lonely City

Patti Smith - Devotion

Jeff Young - Wild Twin

WG Sebald - Campo Santo

Xiaolu Guo - My Battle of Hastings

John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· May 9

Well, that was deeply unusual, but apparently not unpleasant.

Screenshot of an activity tracker displaying a 43 minute nap, from 1534 to 1617.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· May 1

The April bookpile. Really enjoyed this month's reading! Some real treasure there, including @zebko.bsky.social and @reversediorama.bsky.social new books. The sooner read, the sooner re-read.

A pile of books in the sun, with their spines showing.

In no particular order, the books are:

Bryan Waterman Television Marquee Moon (33 ⅓)
C P Lee Like The Night
Sarah Hall Sudden Traveller
Olivia Sullivan Oracles
George MacDonald Fraser The Candlemasse Road
David Keenan Boyhood
Jasper fforde The Eyre Affair

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· May 1

Thank you; you too. Maybe the last day the walk to the bus looks like this.

Trees in a Spring park. The sun shines on them from the side, bringing out the colours of the leaves: the fresh green of the young leaves contrasts with the bright red from other trees, all contrasted by the dark of the trunks and the shaded colours of the unlit leaves.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 29

Can't help but feel my local NHS is trolling someone in the White House here, with not one but two Sleep Services in the Orange Zone.

A sign in a hospital listing what is located in a specific part of the hospital. Amongst the listing for the Orange Zone is included Sleep Service 1 and Sleep Service 2.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 10

And from here!

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 10

I have reason to believe Houdini has reincarnated as a car.

The edge of the pavement and a road; straddling the kerbstones is a triangular yellow metal plate used to immobilise car wheels; a metal chain is looped through it with a lock. In the road, a small yellow loop of metal and a flake of yellow paint lead away.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 9

Have a great time! I'd like to go but... life, logistics and the like. And I got to the Manchester gig in January and that was treat enough!

The Damned, Manchester, January 2026.
Dave Vanian picked out in a white spotlight at a lectern with Captain and Rat red light yo one side.

The Damned live at the Albert Hall, Manchester. Dave Vanian, arms stretched wide stands on stage while one of the buildings strained glass windows is in the background.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 9

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

I can't really explain this if this is meant to be a picture posted without an explanation, can I?

Suffice to say, black and white; a hand and a guitar; suggestion of someone behind.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 7

Morning. Back to the commute, but a not unpleasant start...

The sun shines low through bare branched trees in a blue sky. The sunlight lies along a path in a park with grass either side, touched golden by the sun.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 5

Describe your bluesky account in a single image. (My phone has eaten my preferred response).

A rectangular sign with a red background and in white writing 'CHANGED PRIORITIES'.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Apr 1

The March bookpile. The New York trilogy there was only a third done before I turned a corner walking to work in Manchester and found myself in a snowy New York film set near Harter Street; somewhat disconcerting...

A pile of books with their spines visible. Behind is the inside of a gatefold album sleeve: the album is 'Velvet Underground and Nico'.

In no order, the books are:

Patti Smith Just Kids
Haldor Laxness The Atom Station
Bob Dylan. Chronicles vol 1
Alain-Fournier. Le Grand Meaulnes
Peter Owen Jones Pathlands
Rob Jovanovic. The Velvet Underground Peeled
Derek Jarman Pharmacopoeia
William Shakespeare. Henry V
Jude Rogers The Sound of Being Human

A red hydrant in front of a pile of fake snow with a New York police car in the background.

errantfrequency@errantfrequency· Mar 24

Today looks damp and cooler; have this picture from yesterday instead.