Another good month. Decent dry weather coincided with weekends, bank holidays ,and Friday afternoons often enough for me to get out on the bike quite a bit. I got to go out ten times. A couple of those were for local events, but the rest of the time I was out visiting various places in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Vinyl'
The classics
August 24th, 2024 · 2 Comments · Music
Since treating myself to a turntable a couple of years ago, I have mostly been picking up vinyl from record fairs and used vinyl shops, and mostly from their bargain sections. £4 each or three for a tenner sot of thing. I have bought a few new releases as they come out, but it has […]
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Heresy corner
August 24th, 2024 · No Comments · Music
Last year I picked up a copy of Jon Anderson’s first solo LP, Olias of Sunhillow, at the Horsham record fair. It is a gorgeous artefact, with its intricate cover art and an illustrated booklet inside explaining the story of the album. Considering it was nearly 50 years old, both record and artwork were in […]
July 2024
August 2nd, 2024 · No Comments · Life
For a change I can say that this was unequivocally a good month. Naturally, A lot of this feeling is a result of the election at the start of the month and the pleasure of seeing people like Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg get dumped by their electorate. While still in the afterglow of that […]
Just take my money already
July 8th, 2024 · Comments Off on Just take my money already · Life, Music
A few weeks ago I was in a record shop, Wow & Flutter in Hastings. I was chatting to the owners, Tim and Susan and complaining about how we do not have anything similar in Crawley, or even close to Crawley. I said that there are absolutely no independent record shops or shops selling used […]
June 2024
July 3rd, 2024 · Comments Off on June 2024 · Life
June was a bit of an anti-climax after all the excitement of going over to Germany in May, but although I didn’t get as far as Cologne this month, at least I got out on my bike for more than just local trips. I had a couple of 100+ mile days, one up to Essex […]
A short visit to Cologne
May 24th, 2024 · Comments Off on A short visit to Cologne · Life
I have just returned from a short visit to Cologne. Jayne forced me to take a holiday and I picked Cologne because I had never been there, and it offered the opportunity for a day trip out to Wuppertal to see the Schwebebahn suspended railway. I don’t think I have been to Germany for 30+years, […]
April 2024
May 2nd, 2024 · Comments Off on April 2024 · Life
I had quite limited intentions for 2024 and so far, four months in, I have completely failed to do any of the things I wanted to. Mind you, it really has felt that the year hasn’t started properly anyway. I can’t explain exactly why I feel that way, but I’m sure the weather has to […]
March 2024
April 1st, 2024 · Comments Off on March 2024 · Life
March was a very unhappy month because we had to say goodbye to one of our dogs at the start of the month and adjust to being a one-dog household after being a two-dog household for over ten years. There are some positives; huge savings on food, vets and medication for a start. It is […]
February 2024
March 2nd, 2024 · Comments Off on February 2024 · Life
Another damp, dull and dreary month. Basically it was just a slightly shorter version of January. Its enough to drive you to drink, and in my case it actually did because I opened up a bottle of wine and drank the lot, though it did take me four days to get through it all because […]
