Cheers to Rich in the Lake District for sending these great sunset pictures from last week. Looks like quite a magical place! Keep those pictures coming.
Sunsets of the week
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Have you ever seen a rubber plant pogo?
A big thanks to The Rhythm Doctor and Gerry Hectic who both told us this week about Brian d’Souza (AKA Auntie Flo) who makes music with plants. He says on his website: “I entered the world of biosonification which allowed me to listen to nature’s internal rhythms – analysing electrical biodata and converting it into sound information that in turn can be subtly manipulated and heard as a type of generative music. I created bioelectrical music for vertical farms, mycelium pavilions, mushroom dens and even Vinnie Jones’ vegetable patch!”
The above is a live ambient set on the My Analog Journal channel where he hooks a modular synth to the plants and combines the sounds harvested with some ambient tunes. We don’t know that much about his stuff but will research more on this artist as he sounds well up our street!
More on his Plants Can Dance project here. Thanks again to RD and Gerry Hectic for this.
It’s snowing in Japan too!
And the snow tractors are out in Hokkaido! Thanks to Stevyn Iron Feather Journey for this!
Angry skies and a bit of snow
Cheers to Rich R up in the Lake District for sending us this dramatic picture of what the weather was like up there yesterday. They’ve had some snow and the sky is looking a bit angry. Keep warm up there Rich!
The first daffs in north London
Cheers to Debby H for getting in touch again, with a picture of the first daffodil “about to flower in a front garden along my road”. Wow they are early! Cheers again Debby.
Any more pictures of flowers that shouldn’t be flowering? If so send us some pictures to onedeckpete at gee male dot com.
There’s a rat in me (kitchen) garden what am I gonna do?
Blimmin ‘eck! You never know what is going on in your garden at night do you? Thanks to Debby H for this screenshot of a local rat climbing up one of her trees. Crazy goings on indeed.
Years ago one lunchtime, we saw a rat sniffing around some bin bags in Holborn as office workers were walking by and eating their Pret sarnies. The rat had not a care in the world and couldn’t care less about being seen. We’re not that keen on rats funnily enough but this ain’t a bad “rat” related tune.
Foxes on roofs and seeds in trays
It’s been a nice dry bright day today for a change and it hasn’t been too cold either. Earlier a fox came through the garden just as we were putting an old bucket over the clump of rhubarb shoots. It weren’t bothered with us and the intricacies of forcing rhubarb, rather in the roof of the shed a few doors down. There it stayed for a good few hours.
Thanks to our radio pal Justin Patrick Moore across the pond, who sent us a wonderful seed catalogue from the US from Farmacie Isolde that has many “out there” seeds on it. Even though you won’t be able to order from them (unless you are in the USA), it will give you some great ideas and you could source a seller over here. Download or browse here.
There’s so many we have never heard of before but the above and below are real suprises to us. We forwarded the catalogue onto our mate Gerry Hectic who enquired about “Flat of Egypt (300 seeds for $3,75) or some Bulls Blood? on Page 31″. Isn’t gardening great?
Anyone started any seeds off on this bright Saturday? Pictures and stories if you have. One deck pete at gee male dot com.
Wednesday night dub
A nice track from the Partial Records Bandcamp from King Tubby called Rising Dub, the dub of The World Has Just Begun (The Children Rise) by Earl Sixteen and The Heptones.
This is Kyiv calling, this Kyiv calling
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Big thanks to our good friend in Kyiv, Wlad (US7IGN) for getting in touch this week. He last post was in November and if you remember, there was a potato shaped like a love heart and photographs of his good friend Sergiy UT3UFD‘s collection of seedlings that were started from seeds of whatever he eats here.
Sergiy’s advocado is coming along well (above) since last time and as Wlad jokingly said “His banana even had a baby!” (below).
Wonderful stuff, when you think they are having as he told us, “regular problems with heating, water (out for up to 3 days), and electricity, but we survive even at -20C at night.” Wow, that is some going -20C!
The best thing we think, is how he experimented with the seeds from a pitaya he bought and they’ve started to come really well, growing their first set of “true” leaves (main picture at the top and below).
And if you remember, this is how he heats his plants, with this ingenious set up:
Great to hear from you as ever Wlad, thanks for the pictures of Sergiy’s growing experiments, as they are fantastic!
By the way Wlad has finished his third book, which is available here. Here’s a mention of it on SWLing Post here.
This is WLIS calling, WLIS calling
The off-air recording above comes from the Imaginary Stations episode WLIS, captured via the University of Twente (Enschede, NL) SDR on January 10th, 2026. It’s a mix called One Deck Pete presents Five Good Ones (from the Imaginary Stations mixes), a hand-picked selection of five standout tracks pulled from old One Deck Pete Imaginary Stations mixes.
Here’s the records that were played, in their true stereo, just in case unlike us, you don’t like that “bounced off the ionosphere” sound. We love the ionosphere and we love Imaginary Stations!
Celine Dessberg – Сэлэнгэ – Selenge (from HARP)
Morschen43 – MV Ross Revenge For Ever !! (UK) (from The great lakes pirate ships)
Busy Signal – Jamaica Jamaica Dub Pt 2. Gregory Morris (from Skybird Telephonic Exchange)
Terror-Cactus – Descalzo (from SURF)
Los Zheros – Para Chachita (From Skybird Radio International)
There’s an archive of the last 10 Imaginary Stations episodes on their Mixcloud here.
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