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Recent charity shop haul — (yet another) 5 CDs of Northern Soul vs 5 CDs of Orange Juice

And for those who might need it on this cold January morning, an early highlight of the Northern Soul compilation:

Sunny New Years Day with blue sky over Prestonpans…

And grey sky over Edinburgh today

#SameStupidJokeEveryYear

Farewell to 2023, a year when I went to York twice, London twice, Glasgow twice, Basingstoke once, Bishop Wilton once and Northallerton once.

I passed the ISC2 CISSP exam and the Amazon AWS Certified Security exams.

We converted the garage to an office space and built a corrugated acrylic roof to some of our outside space.

And I did a whole year averaging 10k steps per day…

2023 was pretty good, but it feels like 2024 is going to be great. I might even get a job 😉 Happy New Year everybody!

(Our traditional New Years vegetable pie)

Today’s old Peanuts strip is surprisingly topical…

Looks like I’m on track to average 10000 steps daily across a whole year for the first time…

Off to see Will Sergeant speaking at Toppings Booksellers tonight. I hope they have Q and A at the end…

“The guitar riff on The Back of Love was an integral part of one of the Bunnymen’s most successful singles. What were you thinking of, when you dreamt that up?“

#WillSergeant #ToppingsBooksellers #EchoAndTheBunnymen #DadJoke

Lucas doesn’t do social media, not just because it is a massive time suck but because it’s work. And work that gets someone else paid. “These are dangerous times when what’s on your phone can be dug up at any point in the future by someone with more power than you to disseminate that information, to make money from you. Why is that worth doing?”

From a profile by Stuart Jeffries in today’s Guardian.

If the government or some rich benefactor were to open a Museum of Ephemera, prefererably in some town that needs levelling up, it could receive hoards from mad collectors, provide employment for hoarders who feel the need to collect and catalog this stuff, and provide a psychological backstop for people who get into collecting crisp packets etc. — you don’t have to do this, someone else is doing it already…

(picture above from Jarvis Cocker’s guest editorship of the Observer a couple of weeks ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/08/jarvis-cocker-interviews-six-collectors-peter-blake-andy-holden-loretta-pettway-bennett?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#AfricansWithMainframes #VibrationsFromTheSerengetiII #SoulJazz #SoundsOfTheUniverse #ArtAndSound

Would make a good Top of the Pops theme if they ever bring it back…