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Andy
@andywindmill.bsky.social
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Here to witter on about Kate Bush, penguins, pop music and theatre.
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Hi. It's me.
Me, a man with dark hair in a white t-shirt, taking a selfie in an old mirror in front of a wall decorated with birds and flowers.
October 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Free Grindr usernames for birdwatchers.
A legend for a map showing the global range of Peregrine Falcons. It explains the colour coding for different statuses: ​yellow represents a Breeding summer visitor. ​Dark Green represents a Breeding resident. ​Dark blue represents a Winter visitor. ​Light Blue represents a Passage visitor.
October 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball was an operatic, gothic delight. What a star!
October 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Home now and suitably exhausted, but here's some extra holiday spam from a trip to an art deco villa.
A large, pink, art deco villa. Terraced lawns, rectangular pools, and geometric shrubbery. Sunlight through leaf-covered concrete beams. Me, in a very loud shirt, on a wooden platform in the trees, leaning on a railing.
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Today's impossibly glamorous building is a bookshop.
Me, taking a selfie inside Livraria Lello - a bookshop - with a stained glass ceiling reading 'decus in labore'. An intricately carved wooden ceiling and a mirrored archway. The ornate façade of Livraria Lello. Another shot of the stained glass ceiling.
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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A very charming train station.
September 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Even the McDonald's has chandeliers.
September 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The old stock exchange building is also pretty dazzling.
A grand room taking inspiration from the Moorish architecture of the Iberian peninsula with intricate mosaic tiles. A courtyard with a glass domed roof. The ceiling has gold painted panels featuring the coats of arms of nations Portugal traded with. A historical reading room with painted art nouveau (?) frescoes on the ceiling. A long hallway with a coffered ceiling and hanging lamps. Sunlight spills in from the adjoining courtyard.
September 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Sé do Porto is a stunner of a building.
A shot from the blue-tiled cloister at Sé do Porto. Arched colonnades frame Sé do Porto's courtyard decorated with blue and white tiles. Me, in a gaudy shirt, blocking the view of some lovely blue and white tiles. I'm squinting because it's sunny. Here be dragons.
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Am I on holiday or in a kitchen showroom?
Tiles More tiles. Even more tiles. If you said 'tiles' you were correct.
September 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Lovely weather for ducks.
Me, absolutely soaked in St Pancras.
September 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Me bookmarking things I will never look at again in my life.
September 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Woke up this morning with no plans and ended up seeing St Vincent at the BBC Proms. It's the third time I've seen her live, but perhaps my favourite. She was incredible - as was the orchestra.
A low-angle shot of the Royal Albert Hall ceiling, lit in blue and red light.
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I'll alert Woman's Own magazine.
A magazine headline reading 'friends fear she's drinking custard again'
September 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I went to see Born with Teeth last night. Quite darkly funny and a very enjoyable watch. I heard somebody describe it as historical fanfic - it's very that.
A poster for the play 'Born with Teeth'.
August 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Let's see you at 21 (ish)

I'm the llama.
A picture of a man in a blue hoodie petting a llama (or alpaca, idk).
August 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Highlight of the bank holiday weekend: seeing Chappell Roan absolutely smash it at Leeds Fest.
August 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Watched 'Flow' this evening. It's such a lovely, poignant little film.
A poster for the 2024 film 'Flow' featuring an animated black cat.
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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And some deer in Richmond Park.
August 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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This time last year at Ham House in West London. Very lovely even on a very grey day.
A man with dark hair wearing a Blondie t-shirt (it's me!) taking a selfie in a mirror in Ham House, a stately home in Richmond. There's a tapestry in the background. A close-up of a wooden door carved with helmets, with a sunlit, checkered-floored hallway in the background. A pistachio-green macaron. A view across woods and fields.
August 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Listening to the late, great Julie London, and I know the 1950s gays were absolutely losing their minds over her album covers.
Album cover for Julie London's Around Midnight, showing her lying on a floor with her legs raised to point at midnight on a clock face.
August 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The Hiroshige exhibition at The British Museum is lovely. I wish I had had more time to dwell.
A triptych print by Hiroshige titled "Crowds on Pilgrimage to See the Display of Treasures at the Enoshima Benzaiten Shrine in Sagami Provence". A procession of people walk across a causeway to an island. The causeway is surrounded by choppy blue waves, but in the distance the sea looks calm. The sky is a pale shade of orange.
July 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Back in the cheap seats this evening for Stereophonic. I really enjoyed it. Kind of a given because I'm obsessed with a) Fleetwood Mac and b) the endless soap opera that is Fleetwood Mac. The cast were fantastic.

(I know it's not about Fleetwood Mac, but it's not not about Fleetwood Mac).
The exterior of the Duke of York theatre. A banner advertises the show Stereophonic. The banner shows a person at a mixing console. To the left, the spire of St Martin-in-the-Fields stands against a cloudy, blue-grey sky. A photo from the cheap seats of a stage dressed as a music studio. A large mixing console is central on the stage, with steps up to another tier with beanbags, benches and rugs. Warm wood paneling covers the walls, and a blue speaker is mounted high on the left.
July 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Alpaca? I barely know her.
A full-shot shows two alpacas resting in a grassy field under a cloudy sky. The alpaca on the left is brown with a long neck and is looking up and to the right. The alpaca on the right is white, facing away from the viewer. A wooden fence runs along the left side of the field, separating it from a green field with rolling hills and scattered trees.
July 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Lost my Duolingo streak
July 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM