Jazzy D's Soul Notes

A much cooler day with some sunshine and some cloud and a little windy as well. Much better to do some work and that is what I did, four visits in total. Two in Gravesend , one in Rochester and one in Sittingbourne. A very productive day.

Two of the four visits were charity shops as well.



Rochester High Street.

So, now it is time to do some reports.

Another hot sticky day reaching 28C in the garden with high humidity. But we had some breeze for a change!

Have not done much today. Preferred to soak in the sun rather than do anything strenuous. So an hour or so of just sunbathing, listening to music, having some food, and reading.

Applied for some visits from HS Brands. Seems years since I did any shops for them, so fingers crossed.

I did walk into town and back to have a meal and a drink at my local pub. Bangers and mash again. A pint of Jaipur and a glass of red merlot. Damn satisfying!!



The eBay sales are dead sluggish at the moment. I guess it is the weather and that perhaps sometimes people do not want to buy books and CDs. Really? My prices are competitive and fair, so I think there are just too many outlets and too many eBayers.

Oh well, might pop into Past Sentence tomorrow and see if Kate will take some off me.

Well, the forecast was for a rainy day and just a crappy day. However, after some early rain in the morning, the rest of the day remained dry, if mostly dull and overcast. Good to know that the forecast from Thursday onwards is mostly sunshine all the way. Also, Thursday is now my new day for doing some visits around south London. That is, Beckenham, Welling, and some train rides.

Yesterday I did my other stint in the common room. The classical and all kinds of music mix, but nobody came and I finished playing my CD's before six, and then I pondered that it might be more fruitful to do this in the winter months. Sunday was quite a sunny day despite not reaching above 19C.

I did watch overnight the complete MCU Infinity War and Endgame - once again - and then watched Spiderman Far From Home again, as the latter deals with the fallout from Thanos's click - taking out fifty percent of all life - and the Avengers blip. It is the blip that is relevant in the stories of the recent MCU TV shows, The Winter Soldier And The Falcon, and WandaVision, and to a lesser extent, Loki. One deals with the problem of having half the world population back and the consequences of rehabituation, and the other deals with the fact of losing a loved one (Vision) due to being snubbed out by Thanos, and hence creating a world where that loved one still exists as a television show, unable to face the fact of his demise.

Some shows I dom look forward to both TV and film we are The Eternals, and the Hawekey spin-off, and hopefully not too long, for the Guardians of The Galaxy 3!

Well, it was being good out despite the fact the weather remained stubbornly variable. Started with a sunny morning, then clouded over by midday and slowly nudged back into the lighter cloud with blue skies.

At least the day brightened up by seeing my mate Ewart. On my excursion to Deal earlier in the week I found a paperback box set that would be of interest to him - The Beatles Box - and sod it for five pounds - just fifty pence more than I paid for it. We had a couple of beers each at The Bull pub and then we went our separate ways.

I popped into the charity shop next door to Spoons and bought a 30 CD rack to add to my other CD racks - it was only a quid - so dead cheap relly. I then ended up in Spoons and had another drink with a burger and chips. Then I went home in time to do my common room jazz CD stint. A couple of neighbours came and listened which was good.

Tomorrow I intend to do two more charity shops in Rochester and Gravesend for one of my companies.

Another early evening siesta took longer than expected. Well, I had a long busy day and arrived home around seven knackered. On a gloriously sunny day with a nice warm breezy 25C, I did an excursion around Kent doing five visits as I o when I am covert shopping.

I left this morning on the nine o'clock bus and headed to Folkestone first, then up to Deal for a second job, then Margate and Ramsgate, ending up in Canterbury. I had little time to do any unrelated charity shop persuing or general window shopping as time was tight.

Anyway, that is it till July. So a nice relaxing Sunday ahead.

Well, what a wet horrible day it has been. It rained on and off for the best part of the day. However, it did not stop me from doing some visits today in Sittingbourne, Hempstead Valley, and Sheerness. At least it was warm rain when it did fall. Then getting home to have some Cds arrive in the post made the day for me. The two CDs that arrived are the third album from Van Der Graaf Generator called "H To He Who Am The Only One" (from 1970) and Iannis Xenakis's "Oresteia".

So now for an evening of listening ahead.

Another scorcher. This time we topped 29C easily by the afternoon.

I had a visit to do in Canterbury and picked up a few cheap CDs from various charity shops. Another Sibelius one, this time of his second and seventh symphonies, a Beethoven Emperor concerto and string quartets by Dvorak.




Apart from that, I have been enjoying the sunshine and sunbathing.

Just finished a couple of hours having an evening siesta.

Finally, it seems that the summer is here with temps reaching 20C!! Managed to get some serious sunbathing done after my journey to Folkestone.

Yep, I did another of these exit surveys as somebody else failed to do the work, so I was brought in to snap the final quota. It couldn't have happened on a sunnier day. I had to leave early though as it was a ten to two pm shift, so I caught the 7:20 AM bus to Canterbury first before picking up the Folkestone bus. I was in the town by 9:30 AM.

I did some charity shop perusing in Canterbury, after finishing work, and before heading home. Picked up one jazz CD and a couple of classical ones for four quid.

Back in Faversham I found my sweet hot spot near the library and sunbathed for a few hours drinking some canned beer. By then it was blue skies all the way!!





I also bought a book from Past Sentence. Well, I just had to see the lovely Kate.
So, I hope the next few days are just as sunny. 

Well folks, another day in which the weather decided to play ping-pong. We had substantial rain in the morning, followed by a windy dry spell, and a heatwave late afternoon.

Makes it difficult to know what to wear.

Anyway, I had to pop into Sittigbourne to see my "work coach" - right - if ever there was a misnomer - but I was only in the office for no more than fifteen minutes, and then hot tailed it to Penge East to grab some more free books. They have cut down the choice of bookcases to two and the choice of good ones has somewhat thinned out. Nonetheless, I came away with fifteen interesting ones. Some will be distributed amongst the ladies here whilst the others are for keeps or resale.

Dinner was a hot chilli beef dish with extra jalapenos!!