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

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.
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
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.
An old white wooden sign with 'BEWARE LOW FLYING OWLS' in black capitals on it.
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.
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 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 celebratory emoji: streamers and stars
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.
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
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.
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.
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 poster from a Manchester pub window advertising Monday night salsa sessions.
Steve Hanley, of The Fall, playing kazoo at the Futures and Pasts event last weekend.
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.'
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
Screenshot of an activity tracker displaying a 43 minute nap, from 1534 to 1617.
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
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.
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.
A half empty beer glass with Leffe logo next to a Tripel Carmeliet bottle on an indoor table.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A rectangular sign with a red background and in white writing 'CHANGED PRIORITIES'.
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 line of bare trees in the distance, on the other side of a grassy area, are silhouetted against the early morning sky. The sun, just off centre, is slightly obscured by a high, thin light cloud; airplane contrails cross the sky and, in a gap between the taller trees, a parallel band of darker clouds starts to form.
Shafts of sunlight stream down from a cleft in the grey cloud, highlighting spots in a valley. Foreground is dark and undefined while the far distance is a misty mountain skyline.
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A pile of books, spines on view. In no particular order, they are: Dick Capel The Stream invites us to follow Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies Hugh Thomson Nanda Devi Margot Shetterley Hidden Figures Carl Hiaasen Razor Girl Philip Reeve Bridge of Storms Annie Ernaux (tr.Tanya Leslie). I remain in Darkness Anthony Penrose The Lives of Lee Miller Sarah Hall Burntcoat.
Small pink blossom adorns branches and twigs; at the heart is a blackness, a blackbird silhouetted as he sings. Not the best picture but a captured moment as lighter mornings bring Spring nearer
A two storey shop with a flat roof; the lower storey is mainly taken up with two roller shutters down to the ground. The upper storey us glazed with a picture of a green tent at one side and the words 'camping', 'caravanning' and 'fishing' on the other. A workman in green hi-vis and shorts stands by the door on the street, bemused. In front of the shop is pavement and bollards at the road's edge.
A pile of books with their spines on display. In no order, they are: Sarah Moss The Fell Victor Bockris & Gerard Malanga Upright Neil Ansell The Circling Sky Bohumil Hrabal All My Cats Annie Ernaux. The Years Katie Hickman Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon Gene Kranz Failure is not an Option
The edge of a high piece of land trails off to the left while on the other side of the drop, a wntery wood of leaveless trees cuts a broad swathe. Further away is hazy in mist and the sky is similarly grey.
A record sleeve with a head and shoulders portrait of a man with dark hair on a yellow background alongside a turntable with a record playing on it.
The Fall. A later incarnation; Rob Barbato on bass guitar and Mark E Smith, 10th March 2007.
Three pictures in a collage. Across the top is an image of the back of someones leather jacket in front of an indeterminate landscape with the words 'I have a feeling that our maps have nothing to do with truth, either'. Bottom left image I'd of a person walking along a road; the only other thing visible is a house off in a misty distance. Bottom right is a middle aged man sat in a churchyard with an older white haired man, both looking towards the camera.
A sunset image. Top third of the picture is dark cloud. A hole in the cloud just below halfway shows pale blue sky. Below this, banks and shards of cloud are tinted orange, contrasting with the darkness at the top. A line of rooftops with chimneys is silhouetted at the very bottom of the picture.
Sunlight from a low winter sun (not visible in the picture) streams along a street with high sided buildings, lighting them. Overhead, light cloud and some hazy blue sky with a yellowy tinge above the far end of the street.
A record cover of the Peel Sessions recorded by Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, also known as F.S.K. The cover shows a picture of the band slightly obscured by the names of other bands who recorded Peel Sessions in very, very small print. The border around is gold and the name of the band appears at the top.
The Sands Centre in Carlisle from the air A large building in two halves, with a larger portion to the right and a longer lower wing to the left; with trees behind and a car park in front.
A blue cloudless sky: the moon is framed by the leafless branch and twigs of a tree that comes down from the top: a leafless tree appears from the bottom left corner.
A pile of paperback books, spines on view so titles are displayed. In no particular order, they are: Geoff Nicholson Walking on Thin Air Alan Garner Thursbitch Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude Han Kang The Vegetarian Bob Clarke Prehistoric Wiltshire Russell Hoban Riddley Walker Claire Keegan Small Things, Like These Franco Beradi Heroes
A collage picture. Top half shows text from a Guardian story about documents released from the UK National Archives today; text reads "Meanwhile, No 10 was forced to issue an apology after the Queen Mother’s private secretary, Capt Sir Alastair Aird, telephoned No 10 complaining that John Major’s 1994 birthday greeting had been “incorrectly addressed”. Roderic Lyne in the No 10 private office wrote back, apologising but insisting that Downing Street staff were not to blame." Bottom half is an image from 'The Day Today' television show of Chris Morris as the newsreader and the text behind reads 'BLOODY HELL'.
A close-up of a man caught in the spotlight of a large theatre, dressed in jeans and a shirt. He is playing a helicon, a tubular brass instrument with the horn appearing over his left shoulder.
The low winter sun shines through an old colliery pithead winding tower in a golden sky. A large building is next to the tower and barren trees are either side.
A city scene seen from street level; a portrait view between two tall buildings, with a third straightahead. In a gap between the buildings, the Manchester Town Hall clock tower can be seen, clock face lit white. The sky above (and between buildings) is blue but for a band of orange red cloud; the mirrored buildings reflect the sky.
The Dirty Three, live in Manchester, 1st December 2025. Not sure they've left, tbh...
A wicker basket, empty, with seventies material on the inside of the lid, sat on a concrete floor with some clutter around.
A pile of books, mainly paperbacks stacked on top of a hardback, all with their spines on view. In no order, the books are: Richard Brautigan The Confederate General of Big Sur Kathleen Jamie Cairn Bruce Chatwin The Viceroy of Ouidah Bohumil Hrabal I Served the King of England Anthony DeCurtis Lou Reed: A Life Iain Sinclair White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings Russell Hoban Kleinzeit Edward Storey The Winter Fens Richard Foster. The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club Sarah Moss Summer water Joe Brainard I Remember T. S. Eliot. The Four Quartets
A white card with the words 'Ghost Echoes' in black in the middle.
A stack of books, spines visible. They would have been illuminated by a late afternoon autumnal glow but the sun set as I drove home (I stopped the car to take a picture and between pulling over and getting out, the last of the sun's disc slipped below the horizon). In no order, the books and authors are as follows... Mark Lanegan Devil in a Coma Albert Camus (translated by Sandra Smith) The Outsider Arthur Raistrick Green Roads in the Mid-Pennines Edmund White The Flâneur Russell Hoban Fremder Bohumil Hrabal Cutting It Short Bruce Chatwin What Am I Doing Here Wilson Harris The Guyana Quartet (a book a month since July; last month was The Secret Ladder) Kathleen Jamie Sightlines Sara Wheeler Travels in a Thin Country Ismail Kadare The Pyramid Russell Hoban Turtle Diary Hanif Kureishi Midnight All Day
A pile of books (again), mainly paperbacks, which are, in no particular order: Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Sophia Kingshill Mermaids David Keenan This is Memorial Device Bruce Robinson The Nowhere Road Ismail Kadare The Accident John Lewis-Stempel Nightwalk Kemal Douard The Mersault Investigation Joy Williams Concerning the Future of Souls.
Morning sun in the city reaches between tall buildings to touch with golden light the greens now fading and turning leaves of street trees: shadowed boughs prefigure the winters sparseness. An brightness beyond this last day of September and recalls the spring blast of radiant new growth on the other side of the year.
A robin stands on a piece of wood in sunlight in a garden.
An abstract record cover in sepia tones that might be a distant headland above the sea with a foreground monolith, or might not be.
A pile of books on a bench; colourful mix of hardback and paperback spines. In no particular order, books and authors are: Philip Reeves Thunder City Jean & Stuart Bacon Orford and Orford Ness Ismail Kadare The Doll Francis Pryor Seahenge Anne Serre A Leopard Skin Hat Alastair Humphreys Local Wilson Harris The Far Journey of Oudin Tim Hartford Fifty Things that made the Modern Economy Mike Ashley (ed) Glimpses of the Unknown (Lost Ghost Stories) Mark Fisher Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative? Georgi Gospodinov Death and the Gardener McKenzie Wark The Beach Beneath the Street
An ornate stone building: lighter stone is inlaid with darker against a blue sky.