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Hilliat Fields is the band. Marcus Druce is in the band. No "Chat" (DMs) due to age verification thing. https://hilliatfields.bandcamp.com/music

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · Aug 13

Less expensive than #TheMonarchy
More truthful than #BorisJohnson
More useful than #MattHancock
Not as thick as #NadineDorries
Stronger spine than #KierStarmer
it's...
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Scraping Faeces Off The Wall: An NHS cleaner's Covid memoir

Buy Scraping Faeces Off The Wall: An NHS cleaner's Covid memoir by Druce, Marcus, Wombat, Michael (ISBN: 9798836952754) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

GAH!

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

The CAT is really frustrating, while also great.
The WASP is lush & equally as frustrating.
Got both from Gear4Music.
Tried them?

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

Ooooh!
What yer seeing?

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

Frickin' right.

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

That is 1 big bugger.
Nice.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4d

The brilliant, but dark, new album by Hilliat Fields.
A Darkness This Way Comes.

On sale now.

#NewMusic

hilliatfields.bandcamp.com/album/a-dark...

A Darkness This Way Comes., by Hilliat Fields

8 track album

hilliatfields.bandcamp.com

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

All so wonderfully confusing.
Still great fun though.

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

Not on the analogues.
Just the notes.
Which is odderer because the analogues are clones of synths made decades (?) before MIDI.
But, nope, have to have MIDI.

hey ho.
Thanks for indulging me.
:-) x

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 4h

I thought that I could by-pass MIDI...Nope.
Odd, that.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 11h

(BBQ at a galaxy far far away). Han "This meat is tough." Luke "It's Chewy ". Han "Sure is. What is it?" Luke "Um..."

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 5h

A good day at work.
(At fucking last.)
Even better was getting home & doing more experiments on this.

4 synths connected by wires & cables. Very sexeh.

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 5h

If yer interested...MIDI sends the notes - patch cables send...um...gubbins.
:-)
90mins of experimenting.
:-)

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 11h

Still want to go home.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 11h

(BBQ at a galaxy far far away). Han "This meat is tough." Luke "It's Chewy ". Han "Sure is. What is it?" Luke "Um..."

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 11h

But why use both? I want to go home to experiment.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 12h

Hang about...if I'm connecting synths via patch cables then why am I also using MIDI?

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 16h

Ever get the sense that a wall is trying to speak? At Waltham Abbey, this battered surface tells of remarkable survival — latent with memory. #thread

A weathered wall at Waltham Abbey built from mixed stone and brick, showing centuries of repairs, textures, and layers revealing its long architectural history.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like what happens when you change contractors half way through the project.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 16h

OH!
That's what's missing.
Herring Gulls.
Haven't heard them for...well...ages.

#Gulls #OrLackOf

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 16h

06:44 Wednesday 15/10/25

Dark. Cloudy.
Blackbird. Robin. Roadsweeper.
Ersatz eyes of the office block.
Stare.
Goddam beautiful day.

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TheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 1d

This rings a lot of bells.

I once had a client tell me that the mathematically circular circles 'weren't round enough' because they'd fecked up the aspect ratio of their monitor...

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

Doing some colour profile adjustment & it’s reminded me of the time I had to change a web site’s colours because the client company’s IT dept had bought everyone terrible monitors and they wouldn’t accept it looked right for the rest of the world

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 1d

No.
It burnt my finger as I repositioned it in the oven.
So I'm still waiting.

hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 1d

Just called a Pizza a "Bastarding fuck-wank."

Been a looooong day.

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hilliatfields.bsky.social @hilliatfields.bsky.social · 1d

As ever, thank you.