Dec. 22nd, 2007

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A  good train trip to Winchester today (Friday)  for the following  -

a) Drop off some work urgently needed by one of my companies (worth £280 to me in money terms)
b) Have a look around and visit some chazzers
c) Meet an old friend and have a pint with them.

Well first offf a) done and dusted although finding the place was not as easy as i would have thought from the printed multimap page from my printer.  Talking of said company a former (now retired) supervisor for them is throwing an informal lunch time get together in Maidstone on Jan 24th and i for one will  definitely be  going. Food and convivial company - what more do you need?

b) Winchester chazzers are the pits. Most have no vinyl at all and the staff look at you blankly when you ask for any. The prices are too high - a scatchy Petula Clark EP for four quid is not on!! I only ended up buying one LP and had to haggle on the price - originally £1.99 for the fodder but pursuaded the staff to sell it for 99p - my one and final offer on it. Yep,it worked "Stereo 99 Volume 3" (Polydor 1970) for 99p and is only worth getting for two tracks anyway - see my WEIRDSOUNDZ site for quickie review).

c) Met my long time old friend from high school days and we tumbled into various bars and pubs getting drunker by the minute,and quaffing some fine ale. He gave me a pressie and a bottle of wine. He had a book from me and a CDR of recent finds in my vinyl scrumming.

Staggered to the station and on the way back home noticed said vino had a screw cap and hence drunk it on the train. Well, now that there is no direct service between Brighton and Reading (thanks bloody South West Trains for stopping that service two weeks ago) all jouneys to Winchester are via Southampton and a change of trains, so i needed soething and the vino was just too tempting!!



It was a nice bottle of Hardy's Semillion Chardonnay blanc.

Got home after nine (after a quick detour to my brothers to drop their pressies off) and went straight to bed hence that is why i am writing now so early in the morning. I must be mad - check - i am mad  - "A wild creature" GC calls me!! 

Oh and that Petula Clark EP -well - 


couldn't leave it behind festering in some rotten chazzer - not when you have both "Downtown" and the superb "True Love" on it!




 
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Back in the land of the living after going back to bed at about 4.30 am - waiting foe the postman to arrive. Ordered a CD via one of Amazon's affilliates for 98p plus delivery by calypso star Lord Invader "Master Stick Fighter In New York" on the excellent RevOla label eulogised a bit by [profile] irkthepuristrecently .

I shall look forward to receiving it.
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 A much milder day. Posted off my cousins pressie today by special delivery. 

Picked up a couple of fine albums -

The Oscar Peterson Trio with Herb Ellis - Hello Herbie (BASF LP 1969)
Roy C - Sex and Soul (Mercury LP 1975)

Both only three quid each.

Plus a reissue from Borderline -

Mulatu Astatke - Ethio Jazz (Buda Musique LP)

Also for nostalgia freaks like me and for curios from the past a book and another Johnny Trunk trawl through the past -

Window To the Future,The Golden Age of Television Marketing  by  Steve Kosareff  (Chronicle Books) 

and 

The Vernon Elliot Ensemble - Ivor The Engine  & Pogles Wood (Trunk CD)

classic music from British childrens TV of the sixties.


 

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