My Word For The New Year

2nd January 2026 – My Word For The New Year

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My Word For The New YearBack to work today.  Team is compact and small.  Tales of folk’s New Year drift in and some horrors have manifested themselves!  Day flows a few Easy Leads but not enough, HBB and a fair few sales.

Drive in via the ASDA to grab lunch and paella mix.  The latter is a complete waste of effort because the personnel due to eat has changed since yesterday.  Pain in the arse, duck out for a takeaway and a swift pint.

Drive home is kinda interesting. Need to learn patience when defrosting windows in the car.  It kinda helps when trying to see the road.  In other news I end up listening to some Bee Gee’s and realising how good they are as a bit of light frothy music.

Start to pull a driving playlist together.  It’s more a case of pissing about than anything else.  Still it’s kinda fun and will baffle herself tomorrow when we nip into Wigan for an appointment at the building society.  That bit of the proceedings will be amazingly grown up…. C is making me do it!

Review #2 – Loose Tooth – New Age

Dolewave album that is reminiscent of the laconic nature of Courtney Barnett.  Melodic, fuzzy and jangly with a girl group vibe.  A pleasant listen on a cold day on the basis that it is in itself in congruent with the weather.  Not an immediate album but a few listens will be rewarding.

Music

  1. Moderate Lovers – Lost City
  2. Moderate Lovers – Lucy’s Gardening Again
  3. Moderate Lovers – Crayon Shades
  4. The Silent Love – Rainy Season
  5. The Silent Love – Painted Feelings
  6. Neshband – Melodi Cinta
  7. Neshband – Dekadensi Cinta
  8. Bee Gees – Saturday Night Fever

Movies

  1. Operation Mincemeat

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Something that’s changing

13th August Something that’s changing

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Something that’s changingSomething that’s changing – always the light. R canned.  More stress.  Another day of poor value.

  1. The All Seeing I – Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
  2. The All Seeing I – Walk Like A Panther EP
  3. Primal Scream – Reverberations (Travelling In Time) BBC Radio Sessions & Creation Singles 1985-86
  4. Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983
  5. Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon – The Singles 1980-1990
  6. Big Flame – Peel Sessions 84-86
  7. Big Flame – Rigour 1983-1986
  8. Adult Mum – Natural Causes

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A quiet joy

2nd August 2025 A quiet joy

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A quiet joyA quiet joy – allotment visit and a bit of edging of the plot, some watering. And we have signs of life….. the plug plants have yet to die, spinach, pak choi and bush beans seem to be appearing.  Add some oregano into the mix.  Meet a few other allotment holders as I’m leaving.  Think the whole early thing works for me but isn’t the most social of options.

Home and a shop with C, nip for a coffee along the way and a beer on the way back.

Music

  1. Nick Drake – The Making Of Five Leaves Left
  2. Space Blanket – Sonic Balms For Soothing Souls
  3. The Soulboy Collective – Snob Fatigue
  4. Half Man Half Biscuit – All Asimov And No Fresh Air
  5. The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Mambo Atomico
  6. The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Get Ready
  7. The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Love EP
  8. The Hi-Fly Orchestra – Samboogaloo

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Out the window

July 21st Out the window

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Out the windowOut the window

Music

  1. Various Artists – Saint-Germain-Des-Pres Cafe Vol. 17: The Best Electronic, Lounge, Trip-Hop & Hip-Hop Playlist From Paris
  2. The Telepathic Butterflies – Wow & Flutter
  3. The Telepathic Butterflies – Plan B
  4. The Telepathic Butterflies – Introducing The Telepathic Butterflies
  5. The Telepathic Butterflies – Songs From A Second Wave
  6. The Telepathic Butterflies – Breakfast in Suburbia
  7. The Wurzels – Don’t Look Back In Anger

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Peeking through

July 16th Peeking through

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Peeking throughPeeking through the window to see if the coffee machine is working (a morning ritual! Particularly on earlies when Kawa’s has yet to open).

So fewmin’ tonight, finally let the anger go at and around 10:12.

Music

  1. Jeffrey Lewis – The Even More Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis
  2. Public Enemy – Nothing Is Quick In The Desert
  3. Public Enemy – What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
  4. Public Enemy – Rebirth Of A Nation
  5. Public Enemy – Most Of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear On No Stamp
  6. Public Enemy – New Whirl Odor

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Simple

5th July Simple

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SimpleSimple – bee and honeysuckle.

Music

  1. Cindy – Saw It All Demos
  2. Cindy – Cindy
  3. Cindy – 1:2
  4. Cindy – Little Liability / Take My Place
  5. Cindy – Standard Candle Demos
  6. Cindy – Likely Story / Saw It All
  7. Cindy – Swan Lake
  8. Cindy – Why Not Now
  9. Flowertown – Theresa Street
  10. Flowertown – Flowertown
  11. Flowertown – Half Yesterday
  12. Flowertown – Tourist Language
  13. Flowertown – Time Trials
  14. The Paranoids – Fuzz Folk
  15. Kneecap – Fenian Cunts
  16. Kneecap – Kneecap: Music From The Motion Picture
  17. Kneecap – H.O.O.D 2025 (EP)
  18. Stevie Wonder – Mono Singles

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P

16th February P

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Popular

An early shift today.  Deep joy!  Bit of a mixed day with lots of listening from Krish.

  1. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 – The Difficult Number 2
  2. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 – Fitbaw Fitbaw Fitbaw GOAL GOAL GOAL
  3. Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 – These Are Not The Drugs (You Are Looking For)

 

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Peaceful

Peaceful

24th, April 2023, Architecture, FMS Photo A Day, Folk, Funk, Hip Hop, Monday, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Punk, Street Photography, , , , , , , , , , , ,

PeacefulA week of lates beckons. News full of Ofcom’s Affordability of communications services: April 2023 update a day of drops beckons.  Sure enough the day pans out that way,  a usual week may have one or two in it.  Today 4 of the buggers.

In other news I end up chatting to someone who works at SLAIS and who knew the McIlwaine’s.  Ia has apparently shuffled of this mortal coil which is sad.  Turns out she has a Wikipedia page the obit is here.

Bus home was a bit of an adventure, came home via Winstanley, no idea why, was a touch weird but what the heck.

Photo today was a Sunday snap when I got beyond a set of gates that are usually shut.  I guess a little light urbex. Either way it was interesting and the string of lights set things off nicely.

Tomorrow’s prompt is ‘found’ so will have to channel my inner Marcel Duchamps.  Be interesting to see what sort of found objects I come across.

Music

  1. On Air (The BBC Sessions) – June Tabor
  2. Quercus – June Tabor With Iain Ballamy & Huw Warren
  3. The Ultimate Collection – Grace Jones
  4. A Night Of A Thousand Vampires (Live) – The Damned

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