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Chilling out this morning with some of the albums I found yesterday. Well, I actually mean CD's, but you know old habits linger.

In a Fela Kuti mode right now. Slowly building up a collection of his music from the seventies and so forth.

Midday I will be heading to Medway to do a mobile phone store, a food visit at a supermarket cafe and then another visit to a store that now belongs to Walmart. I was also going to Whitstable to do a pub food and drink visit this evening, but as I am doing The Canterbury Tales on Sunday I will visit the pub on the same day as I will be full of food from the big M supermarket in Strood - part of Medway for the uninitiated.

Addendum: Just checked the pub visit is a drinks only covert shop - two pints of real-ale so yeah, I am visiting this evening! A full £20 fee too! The Sunday Tales visit is a £40 quid fee. Yay, good stuff!

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Nov. 20th, 2017 04:36 pm
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Well another dreary on and off wet day. But at least i kept out of the drizzle for most of the day.This morning i was up and out by just after five to get down to Ealing Broadway station.I then took the underground train to Turnham Green so that i could walk down to Chiswick High Road to do my lunch visit. On the way i spotted an Oxfam shop and looked in there. Found a great Tito Puente compilation there. Salsa and latino vines on this one matey!

For lunch i had onion soup with bread.


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I then took the bus over to Notting Hill Gate (the 27 infact) to pop into MVE again. Picked up some jazzy stuff and avant garde electronica cheaply.

Then i had another visit over in the Holborn area to do a coffee shop visit.
This was the last covert shop of the day bit right next to the coffee shop is a pun called The Draft House and they had the beer of the day for only £2.90! Dead cheap for London!

So i tried this beastie at 5.4 % ABV!

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A lovely brown ale indeed!

Shall journey home a bit later.
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It had been a dull rainy day despite being quite mild.I have been to Dover to somy cafe mystery shop visit at a supermarket. I had gammon egg and mashed potato for my lunch.

I am currently in Deal having just done a charity shop visit abd enjoying a beer in the local ' Spoons pub here.

I also picked up some pipe tobacco in Faversham this morning. So i'm good.

I also picked up the latest Wire magazine as it has a sampler CD attached to it plus a feature on Shirley Collins.

Her new album comes out today.
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SATURDAY

Another fine day if somewhat windy, but the back garden at Tim's does give some respite from the cool blast. I posted off another CD from recent Discogs sales this morning and then went to the library.

I really fancied going to Canterbury, as I have a mystery shop to do, but will do tomorrow now. I had run out of shag and there is one shop in the city where I know I can get the flavoured stuff. However, I am not sure if the shop is open on a Sunday.

I read more of the German Philosophy book in conjunction with another Very Short Introduction book on Ethics.


SUNDAY

I took the bus journey to Canterbury going through Faversham, Boughton and Dunkirk. Visited the tobacconist shop opposite Wetherspoons for some more cherry and vanilla pipe shag. Then I went to do a mystery shop, and ended up having a pint of cider in the Wetherspoons. Lovely jubbly.

I took the philosophy books with me but didn't get round to reading them , except for the first part of the morning in the garden, before I caught the bus.

Evening we watched a superb film (on Channel 4) based on a true story called “The Bank Job” , in which apparently some compromising photographs of a royal princess taken by Michael X was stored in the safe deposit box of a certain bank in Baker Street, London.. Fascinating entertaining stuff, halfway between a crime caper and a conspiracy thriller.

MONDAY

Another bank holiday. They seem to be coming thick and fast at the moment but this one is more important than the one we had on Friday. It is International Workers Day, a holiday that Labour put through and which the untrustworthy Conservatives want to abolish, along with dismantling the NHS , and making it more difficult for people to slide out of the poverty trap. It smacks of Dickensian ism, and a hark back to the bad old days of Victorianism. Something that the royal halfwit, Charles, would approve of, considering how such an anachronistic lot they are. It was no surprise that no Labour member of parliament was invited to the recent Royal wedding.

Recently it has been the 300th anniversary of the birth of Scottish philosopher David Hume, and the podcast I was listening to was about him and his philosophy, downloaded from the Philosophy Zone website. I am now reading “Hume, A Guide For The Perplexed” (Continuum Books), as I have finished the “Very Short Introduction To Ethics” book.

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 This morning a  mystery shop at Cafe nero in The Lanes and then with Lorna (who just felt well enough to get a free meal) we took a bus to the Marina to  have a  meal at Cafe Rouge ( a mystery shop via Maritz). Went slightly over budget but who cares when the meal was so yummy. Lorna had onion soup and then a seafood salad. I had chciken liver paté to start with followed by lamb shank. We finished off with mit tea after being too full to squeeze in a desert. I washed the food down with a half of becks lager and a large glass of wine. In total we spent £42 but will get back £35 from maritz for the shop. Lovely !!

Afterwards,we went back into town and I needed to replace the black ink on my printer from the refilling shop in London Road. Walking back the irresistable urge to pop into record shops and chazzers took hold. From the heart Foundation chazzer Earth Wind and Fire "Raise" (CBS 1981) for £2 and is a lovely mint copy.

Another David Murray Octet LP too, "New Life" (Black Saint 1987) for £3.50 from Jam!

Two singles from Hedonizm and hence mo' funky stuff. 

Then from this new bookshop in North Street doing remainders and cheap books a paperback called "Play Like Elvis! How British Musicians Bought The American Dream" by Mo Foster (Sanctuary Publishing) for £3 and from Borders (one of my rare visits) the latest Julian Cope book "Japrocksampler" (Random House).

Then off to Hove to do a survey inside Tesco Express.

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