4th March Patterns
Day two of lates and a sneaky HBB. Value is shite. Absoulutely knackered.
Bus day.
- The Link Quartet – The Lost Tapes
- The Link Quartet – Live Anthology 1998 2018
- The Link Quartet – Secret Sessions
3rd March Light and Shadows
1st of the lates and I’m struggling. Thank gawd for Kawa’s. Still struggle with a late start, too early to do much, too late to not do something.
- The Link Quartet – Minimal Animal
- The Link Quartet – 4
- The Link Quartet & Miss Modus – Hotel Constellation
2nd March Simple Pleasures
Sunday and I’m in… at least there is Pizza. Phone the boy and Mum as usual, watch the Throw Down and Call the Midwife. More importantly home to meal cooked by C including dumplings. Love ’em!
- The Link Quartet – Episode One
- The Link Quartet – Fast Cars & Sexy Girls
- The Link Quartet – Beat.It
- The Link Quartet – Green Puma / Tropical Dandy
- The Link Quartet – The St Tropez Heist
- Mimiko – i-nichi
- The Guy Hamper Trio (Featuring James Taylor) – Chatham’s Burning
- The Guy Hamper Trio (Featuring James Taylor) – The Godess Tree
- Cream Soda – Make Up Your Mind
1st March New Beginnings
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
- They Might Be Giants – The Else
- They Might Be Giants – I Like Fun
- They Might Be Giants – Miscellaneous T
- They Might Be Giants – The Spine Surfs Alone
- Alex Chilton – Set
- Alex Chilton – A Man Called Destruction
- Alex Chilton – Feudalist Tarts
- Alex Chilton – Clichés
- Alex Chilton – Like Flies On Sherbet
- Alex Chilton – Bachs Bottom
- Alex Chilton – High Priest
28th Free Choice
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
- The Come Ons – Come On In
27th Free Choice
Really rather proud of this one, reached the Top 10 of The Big Photo Hunt!
Day was a bit weird, started badly and finished strong. Job opportunity handed to me but would mess up appointments and things, will mull over and don’t have to give immediate response.
- The Dirtbombs – Dangerous Magical Noise
- The Dirtbombs – Horndog Fest
- The Dirtbombs – Party Store
- The Dirtbombs – Ultraglide In Black
- The Dirtbombs – We Have You Surrounded
25th February Y
Generally feeling like shit today. Don’t know what the fuck is up with me but bottom line is that I’m shattered. Struggle to focus and things aren’t great.
- Spectrum – Feels Like I’m Slipping Away
- Panda Bear and Sonic Boom – Reset In Dub
24th February X
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
- Thee Girl Fridays – Double Crossing Double Agent / Ejector Seat
- Nasser Bouzida – The Lynx / The Hapshash Swing
- Nasser Bouzida – Cookin’ At The Organ
- Lines – Soft Science
- Wild Billy Childish & CMTF – Love Comes In Spurts
- Jake Thackray – Ideal
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color
23rd February W
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
- Alvin Purple – Billie
- Les Chouettes – Idiomatiques
- Les Chouettes – Ha Ha Happiness
- Les Chouettes – Fallow of Follow
21st February U
Friday, day off, get to spend it with half term bound C. A bit of a mooch round the shops. Lunch in the Gobin. Relief to have a bit of a lie in, lates are really taking it out of me.
Really pleasant having a day with C.
- The Chills – Kaleidescope World (Expanded Edition)
- The Chills – Secret Box
- The Chills – The Lost EP
- The Chills – Rocket Science/Lost In Space
- The Chills – Scatterbrain Storms Outtakes