OK and I’m running late. Grab coffee and sarnies and take photo of a sign I saw the other day that made me laugh out loud, people are so feral. Day went better than the last couple.
Various Artists – Lost Innocence
Various Artists – There’s No Stopping Us Now: The Female Mods’ Forgotten Story
Barrington Levy – Prison Oval Rock – 40th Anniversary Edition
Saturday and another day off. Lie in it’s nice! Then off to get Greg the bear shrink wrapped. We go via the ATM and follow the shrink wrapping with a coffee. Nip back home and drop the bear off. Meet C at Lidl and shop. Back home for a bacon sarnie.
Afternoon and it’s a trip to the Turkish barbers. Pint and home.
Robert Johnson – The Complete Recordings (The Centenial Collection)
Monday and I’m despatched to deliver the piss to the GPs. Hazel is due to suffer the final indignity, it only hurts if you get your fingers caught between the bricks. Brief shop in Aldi and then onto the laundrette. My cunning plan of coffee, music and book is interrupted by building work at the garage. Plan B from Planet 57 swings into action and it’s a sausage barm and coffee from the sandwich shop.
Back home and the plan is cook a lasagne for tomorrow, gammon and chips for tonight.
Curry night, a Punjabi Tomato Curry with Chicken, rice and Naan. Slow cook and caramalise some onions. Also bake some fruit scones. Wee shop with C earlier and swift pint. Pump up the bike tyres in anticipation of tomorrow’s cycle to work.
C tidy’s upstairs as I cook.
Glass Raspberry – Washed Up
Glass Raspberry – The Final Call
Glass Raspberry – Walk With Me / Getaway
They Might Be Giants – Join Us
They Might Be Giants – At Large
They Might Be Giants – Working Undercover For The Man
Friday and I’m given a list. But first its time to sort the panniers on the bike in daylight. Discover I’d put them on back to front. Relatively easy to sort. Pop in the bike locks and job’s a good’un.
Onto the list. First off I am sent to the doctors to fetch blood forms, pots to piss in and to rearrange the time of the telephone consult. Then to book a bloods appointment, ring the people concerned only to discover I have to book it online. So online I go. Next a trip to the post office to send Christine’s birthday card.
Next to sorting the pedals on the bike. Much easier than I thought it’d be.
Durutti Column – Chronicle
Durutti Column – Tempus Fugit
Durutti Column – A Paen To Wilson
Durutti Column – Fidelity
Durutti Column – Sunlight To Blue… Blue to Blackness
Last 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.
The Veras – Spaceman
The Veras – If You Get The Feeling
The Veras – Something To Say
The Veras – Ladies First
The Veras – Get It While You Can
The Veras – V for Veras
Jim Shepherd – The Circle
Fallen Leaves – It’s Too Late Now
Fallen Leaves – Out In A Forest / The Inside Of A Chair
Sunday lazy start to the day. Wash up and make breakfast. Nip to the shop and grab a swift pint. Weather is foul. Catch up with the boy in the afternoon, he’s sounding less tin helmety.
Folks seem fine when I ring. C suffering from neuralgia and preparation for first day back blues.
The Jasmine Minks – We Make Our Own History
The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) – Dog Jaw Woman / The First Creature Is Jealousy
The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) & Wild Billy Childish & The CTMF – 100 Yds Of Crash Barrier
The Guy Hamper Trio (featuring James Taylor) – Cowboys Are Square / It’s So Hard To Be Happy
Big Boss Man – Das Freak
Big Boss Man – Bossin’ Around
CTMF – Traces Of You
CTMF – For Your Love
Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out
Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Step Out (alt) / Upside Mine
Wild Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers – Troubled Mind / Ranscombe Farm Boogie
Mick Hampshire – From 30,000 Feet
The 5-6-7-8’s & The Masonics – The Japan Tour EP
The Masonics – Talkin’ About…
The Masonics – Lookin’ For…
The Masonics – I Got It All EP
The Masonics – Sursum Tibiam Vestram
Fallen Leaves – Rosalina / Stay
Comet Gain – Only Happy When I’m Sad / Dreams Of A Working Girl