Glimmer 14

April 14 Glimmer 14

Glimmer 14Glimmer 14 and I’m in Kawa’s and taking photos of photos.  Great coffee as usual and the first of a series of lates.  Day goes OK, not brilliantly but you can only deal with what it deals you.

  1. Ska Jazz Messengers – Head Over Heels
  2. Big Boss Sound – Return Of The Loafer
  3. Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers – Pieces Of Eight
  4. Dunstan Bruce – Fucking Expensive
  5. Interrobang‽ – Interrobang‽
  6. I Doris – Not Done Yet (feat. Dunstan Bruce)
  7. New Starts – More Break Up Songs
  8. Mirrored Daughters – Mirrored Daughters
Glimmer 11

11 April Glimmer 11

Glimmer 11Easter Sunday and Glimmer 11 celebrates the fact I’ve finally cracked the cooking of Onion Bhaji after several years of failed attempts! Delicious too!  Cook a pork roast for the day.

Music

  1. Various Artists – Lee ‘scratch’ Perry And Friends: Land Of Kinks – The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970
  2. Various Artists – Gather In The Mushrooms (The British Acid Folk Underground 1968-1974)
  3. Various Artists – Liverpool Sunset (The City After Merseybeat 1964-1969)
  4. Prince Buster -Prince Buster – Funky Jamaica
Glimmer 10

10 April Glimmer 10

Glimmer 10Easter Saturday and it’s Glimmer 10, cherry blossom always reminds me of 14 Queens Avenue.

Music

  1. Karen – Karen
  2. Various Artists – Revolutionary Spirit (The Sound Of Liverpool 1976-1988)
  3. Who’s The Daddy Now? – Daddy Christmas
  4. The Pistachio Kid – Sweet Memories
Glimmer 8

April 8th Glimmer 8

Glimmer 8Glimmer 8 got picked in the Fab Four. Always find it a valediction of the photography.

Music

  1. The Men with The Golden Gonads – Play The Men with The Golden Gonads And Other Misses…
  2. The Singing Loins – Jazzy Angels
  3. Various Artists – Chapter 1 : From The Ashes
  4. Proper – Meant To Say Something
My View - a photo of grass and dew from a day off.

24th March My View

My View - a photo of grass and dew from a day off.Day off.  Day starts with me taking the piss… literally to the GPs. Whereupon NHS IT strikes, they have to hand write the sample form because the printer is dead.  On the way up a couple of photos.  Need to look at them to see if they are prompt suitable. Jump a bus back home.

Herself off work, still recovering from Asthma attack. Take a wee dander to get a photo for tomorrow in the afternoon.

Pump up the tyres and sort rear reflector on the bike.  Usual day off preparation for first early of the week.

In other news there is some movement on the Roots allotment situation.  They’ve announced it will be 16 minutes away from Ashton… presumably by car, ‘cos perish the thought you wouldn’t have a car.  As long as it’s reasonable cycle ride, I’m in!  Looks like a £40 upfront then for a baby patch about a tenner a month.  Not looking for anything huge, it’s not like I have a clue what I’m doing!  As much as anything it’s a healthy thing to do on a day off for the old mental health.

  1. Sunny War – Simple Syrup
  2. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel
  3. Sunny War – With The Sun
  4. Sunny War – Shell Of A Girl
  5. Throwing Muses – Moonlight Concessions
  6. Edwyn Collins – Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
A Moment of Rest

23rd March A Moment of Rest

A Moment of RestC still crook, had a rough nights sleep, get up manage to trip the fuses with the toaster, make coffee and that at least offers a moment of rest.  Sort out the fuses, and C comes downstairs to tell me off.  Nip to the shop for water for C and job’s a good ‘un.  Slowly sort the roast after a sarnie for lunch.

Roast was appalling.

  1. Elijah Minnelli – Creamed Horn (EP)
  2. The Tubs – Dead Meat
  3. The Tubs – Cotton Crown
  4. The Tubs – Names EP
  5. Nico – Nico’s Last Concert: Fata Morgana
  6. Nico – Reims Cathedral – December 13th, 1974
  7. Nico – Desertshore
  8. Nico – The Classic Years
Stillness

22nd March Stillness

StillnessSaturday and C is still not right, late up and a trip to the shops, a quick coffee.  A bit of a lazy day generally.

  1. Elizabeth Morris – Athens
  2. Elijah Minnelli – Perpetual Musket
  3. Elijah Minnelli – I Hope The Goats Come Back (ze hood de sham lichdal)
  4. Elijah Minnelli – Bebé Durmiendo Cumbia
  5. Elijah Minnelli – Slats
  6. Elijah Minnelli – Venn Diagram
X

24th February X

XLast day off for a wee while and it’s a busy one. Laundrette day, change pedals day, bake custard pie, make mince and potato pie, give the cat her flea and worming treatment. Hoover and clean the oven and kitchen.

So Laundrette had a dryer hog, it started pissing down as I left. Cat avoided the pills. But on the plus side the custard pie seems to have worked. Mince and potato pie is a work in progress.

Feeling really shit, hit the booze to deal with it, not certain that that’s a good idea. That being said I just continue.

  1. The Veras – Spaceman
  2. The Veras – If You Get The Feeling
  3. The Veras – Something To Say
  4. The Veras – Ladies First
  5. The Veras – Get It While You Can
  6. The Veras – V for Veras
  7. Jim Shepherd – The Circle
  8. Fallen Leaves – It’s Too Late Now
  9. Fallen Leaves – Out In A Forest / The Inside Of A Chair
  10. Thee Girl Fridays – Double Crossing Double Agent / Ejector Seat
  11. Nasser Bouzida – The Lynx / The Hapshash Swing
  12. Nasser Bouzida – Cookin’ At The Organ
  13. Lines – Soft Science
  14. Wild Billy Childish & CMTF – Love Comes In Spurts
  15. Jake Thackray – Ideal
  16. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color
T

20th February T

TLast late of the week and it comes as something of a relief.  In early and brew at Kawa’s.

  1. Roky Erickson – Your Gonna Miss Me
  2. Roky Erickson – I Have Always Been Here Before (The Roky Erickson Anthology)
  3. Roky Erickson – Never Say Goodbye
  4. Roky Erickson – All That May Do My Room
  5. Roky Erickson – Roky Erickson & Evilhook Wildlife
  6. Roky Erickson – Hide Behind The Sun
  7. Roky Erickson – Gremlins Have Pictures
  8. Roky Erickson – Holiday Inn Tapes
  9. Roky Erickson & The Aliens – I Think Of Demons
  10. Roky Erickson & The Aliens – Don’t Knock The Rok!
  11. Roky Erickson & The Resurrectionists – Beauty and the Beast
R

18th February R

RAnother late, swift ale at the Swan & Railway on the way home.  Delight at finding Doctor Morton’s Duck Baffler, seemed entirely appropriate.

Bit of a session on the new bonus scheme, people are getting a bit uptight about it.  Had nothing from it yet but then my value hasn’t been wonderful.  But believe we are getting there.  Think one of the issues is that it is very difficult to calculate value beyond the basics.

  1. The Oh Hellos – Oh Hello
  2. The Oh Hellos – Dear Wormwood
  3. The Oh Hellos – Through The Deep Dark Valley.