Rob McMinn

@robmcminn.uk

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Author, blogger, Irish tea drinker, pizza perfectionist, Beatles person. UK and France. My novels are 100% organic with no artifical ingredients. Read more: https://robmcminn.uk/fiction-and-non-fiction-books/

The Belfort lion
Garden table with a mug of tea and a kindle with Gate of Ivory Gate of Horn by Robert Holdstock displayed. Trees in background
Yellow bike next to a lake
Sunflowers in a garden
Black cat stalking something in shrub
Black cat sitting on a pile of luggage
Cat sitting on top of a half packed bag looking annoyed
Sample set of gloop for girls, a font
A large house that has been divided into several flats
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
The Tour de France coming out of Mélissey
A Times journalist bravely sporting the lethal trousers. She looks like she’s wearing a tent ⛺️
BBC News headline: Delivery robots to go on trial in Stevenage
A green and black dragonfly on. Windowsill
Radio Times cover for October 12-18 1968, showing illustration of an Aztek mask and a white athlete in the GB kit
A wooden bench dedicated Jim Dancer, upon which someone has abandoned a full bag of white sliced bread
A cat sitting on a chair that is being used to prop the front door open
From TV coverage of Tour de France, it’s a large group of gendarmes holding hands and making shapes for the helicopter camera
Old bloke in a bright orange helmet wearing matching orange sunglasses
Helicopter shot of French countryside from France•TV
View across to distant reservoir. In the foreground, a ploughed field. In the middle distance a yellowed field of dry grass
A ploughed field under blue skies. A trodden down bit is just discernible
As described. There is a lot of mango
The dish as described
The helicopter equivalent of the black Range Rover
A classic Mac with mini keyboard and original one-button mouse
A laptop screen showing the peloton and two breakaway riders
Laptop screen displaying France Televisions Tour de France broadcast
An advertisement for L'Alsacienne "sans culotte" summer white beer, featuring its famous character logo, a blonde woman wearing no knickers
A yellow leather reclining chair, with a collapsed back
The cover of Deep Into the Sixties by David Kynaston, showing 1966 Bob Dylan with a bunch of kids
The dish as described
Shot across a fence of a flat spheroid cloud
The plate of food as described
You give daily poll questions. Are you hoping that another heat wave does or does not happen in the UK this summer? 26% hoping it does 64% hoping it doesn’t 10% don’t know
It’s a red kite riding the wind
Various Guardian opinion pieces with ideas about how to influence Andy Burnham, including "Politicians and wonks fight for influence over a PM"
4 items from my Wordpress spam folder
a photo of one of the clips on a pannier bag that attaches to the bike, but it has come loose
Apex of a house roof with some promising looking clouds above it
A wok filled with vegetables, beans and rice
A non-stick wok containing noodles, peppers, mushrooms, baby corn, and mange-tout
Weather map showing air quality in France. Poor (pink) and Deteriorated (yellow)
A creamy risotto topped with sliced radishes. (It’s actually fat free yoghurt, not cream)
Side of my head showing a freezer block behind my neck, in a garden chair
A red kite, spread wings, in a completely blue sky
A dish of rice with beef, beans, baby sweetcorn, green beans and green peppercorns
A forearm, showing a blistering red rash along its length
A field of maze growing under a blue sky streaked with vapour trails
The poem Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
A painting by my #2 daughter, based on a still from, I think, Vertigo
Pizza topped with mozzarella, pepperoni, caramelised figs
An unfortunate still from. YouTube vid showing an episode of the rest is politics
Guardian headline: Opinion Andy Burnham has shown that he can win. But can he govern Britain? Gaby Hinsliff
From Uncut magazine "When we used to play a Muddy Waters song or something, we'd try to channel it, but sometimes not quite succeed - although you're doing your best," says Jagger. "There was a kind of youthful enthusiasm at work. But when we'd play the California Ballroom in Dunstable, they were just out for a good night out - get drunk and have a fight. There wasn't the worry about how we played Chuck Berry or not."