Matthew Wright 👨🏼‍🦼

@mcmwright.bsky.social

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Acoustics, Folk Music, Disability, not necessarily at the same time. OHMI trustee. My right hand might have lost its cunning, but my tongue hasn't yet cleaved to the roof of my mouth

Dear Eddie, A few Circulars ago, a correspondent pointed out that Leonard Bardwell, founder member of East Surrey MM was the first father-in-law of the author Kingsley Amis. Your readers might be interested to read what he wrote to his friend Philip Larkin on the 9th of May 1949: "The best news from here for a long time is that old Bardwell was taking part in some lunatic folk-fandango in which the men swung a lot of staves about and ducked and jumped over them (SILLY OLD DIPPY OLD SLOPPY OLD DAPPY OLD POTTY OLD FOOLS) - you know the kind of thing. Well, old B's opposite number swung his stick at the wrong time, or old B mistimed it or something: anyways, the upshot is that old B takes one hell of a crack on the brain-box, and is laid out for some time, and suffers a lot of pain, and has to be treated for shock. NOW THAT'S FUCKING GOOD EH?" (From 'The letters of Kingsley Amis', ed. Z. Leader, HarperCollins, p. 203.) I would assume a Mayday performance of Lads-a-bunchum, Adderbury (Adderbury is mentioned elsewhere in the correspondence), does anyone know better? Yours sincerely,
An old paperweight made from an electric cable of which successive layers of shielding have been stripped
A can of Budweiser Budvar next to a glass containing its former content
International fans have brought some great new songs with them. Here are some of our favourites we’ve been sent so far. “Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender”. From, surprise, surprise, Australian fans. England fans, not to be outdone offered this charming ditty. “He’s fat with piles, he’s in the Epstein files, Trump the cunt, Trump the cunt”. They followed that by facing off with Croatian fans in a pub while singing another classic, to the tune of Go West: “You’re shit but your birds are fit”
Michael Brazier in S2E4 of A Very Peculiar Practice with Bruel & Kjaer audio equipment in the background
Two metal sculptures of meerkats standing in a garden
A heat-pump on a patio
Page xviii of Visual Differential Geometry and Forms by Tristan Needham
Said concertina
Ron (Ian Lavender) and Eth (Patricia Brake) in The Glums
Multicoloured plots illustrating the independence of intervals between spikes in auditory neurons
Solutions manual to accompany Acousticsb An Introduction to its Physical Principles and Applications by Allan D Pierce
Garden
People celebrating Holi
Chapter 1 is charmingly called "Comfort for the Computationally Crippled"
Amelia Dimoldenberg Vivian Poulet-Magasin [IMDB cast credits for Industry S4 E4]
A mobile hoist with a teddy bear in the sling
A Linn Sondek LP12 turntable
A bottle of Chimay trappist beer and the CD "Ricordanze a record of love" by Musica Secreta
Sorry, didn't OCR this
Two bottles of Leffe Blonde beer, now empty
CO2 monitor inside tupperware container of coffee beans, reading 5098 ppm
A USB plug the right way up with an arrow pointing to the empty holes on the top
A Raizer II chair that can lift up someone like me who, if they fall over, can't always get up on their own
View through a window of a skip containing the sawn-up parts of our old sofa
Colleen Rafferty