Jazzy D's Soul Notes

A very productive day. I completed a couple of tile shops, one in Ashford and the other in Canterbury. I finished by one during the day. I arrived back in Faversham at just after two. I popped into my local for a nice jalfrezi curry before going home.

Right now, I am having a coffee and listening to some of the more sublime music of Scriabin.

A much warmer and sunnier day after yesterday's soaked-out coldness.

I popped over to Hempstead Valley, Medway to do a shopping mall visit, and then Sittingbourne to do a tile company.

I also visited the Sunburst Bookshop and bought eight more classical CDs for two quid -

Dvorak - Quintets Op. 81 & 97 (Supraphon)
Khachaturian - Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto etc (Decca Duo)
Borodin - The Essential Borodin (Decca Duo)
Prokofiev - Ivan The Terrible, Alexander Nevsky, etc (EMI)
John Barry - The Beyondness Of Things (Decca)
Kalinnikov - Symphonies 1 & 2 (Olympia)
Giya Kancheli - Symphonies 3 & 6 (Olympia)
Glazunov - Symphony No. 8, Ballade (Olympia)


Nice listening to do over the weekend.

Despite being a bit blustery it was a fine mild sunny day. I popped down to Canterbury and over to do a couple of pound shops and then Folkestone to do a cafe within a department store. I had a bit of a wait at Dover due to some accident on the main A2 and many of the busses were delayed.

So I did not arrive home till later than expected and thus had ham eggs and chips dinner at =ymy local pub. Great comfort food!

I have been watching a wonderful charming series based around Stratford on Avon. Home town of our famous bard, called Shakespeare and Hathaway - Private Investigators on the BBC. My bro  coming42 got me into it. So, to be or not to be, it is a great watch! Also, Stratford is such an old world place full of history.

Wagner's last opera - Parsifal - has some of the most wondrous music even if the story of the Grail is a bit naff in his interpretation of it. I have found a 4CD box set of the long opera for a fiver today.



I think this and The Ring are his best works by far.

After doing three jobs today and yet to do the reports I think I will have tomorrow off.

I will be traveling down to Brighton again. Leaving today and coming back on Thursday as previously.

Hence, my posting output will be somewhat diminished as I will not be taking the laptop. I will be taking the phone, the new Lenovo Tab 7, and my old tablet. These will be more convenient than lugging a laptop.

I arrived home at three in the afternoon. Had a very good journey up from Brighton with just one pit stop to have a tasty, chargrilled chicken with chips at Spoons in Maidstone.

I spoke to my bro when I arrived in my flat to see how h was and what was the itinerary of the day. I will call him after work tomorrow.

Friday, I have four visits that include two charity shops. One in Sittingbourne and one in Strood in Medway. Then I have a Lindt chocolate store visit to do at Bluewater and finally a mobile phone store in Sheerness.
I know I hate to leave him alone but at some stage like all widowers he will have to get use to it. You know, I have decided – if he does not mind - to visit him once a month after this awful time because firstly he is my brother and we both love music food and stuff. Plus, he is my big brother, and I must strong to be there for him.

Third day in a row of doing rail surveys doe the Kent-based rail company. Although today was a disruption survey due to engineering work on the line from Sittingbourne to Sheerness. So, I travelled the bus replacement and did the survey based on the alternative service.

I had lunch in Spoons on the island. Here is the food porn, Jon – pizza!



After the job, I popped over to Rainham to peruse the bookshop there and picked up a few cheap classical CDs. I then came home avoiding my local pub.

Well, that was it, yesterday after I did my other rail covert shop I popped into the pub, met Amanda there, and we had two bottles of wine between us and then went elsewhere on a pub crawl. It was at least two other puns we imbibed in. So today was going to be an easy day.

My first day of work of the New Year. I popped over to Strood end of Medway City today. Had to do one of these one-pound store visits. I also popped into Rainham to Sunburst Books and bought three classical CDs for a quid.

These are –
Mussorgsky – Pictures At An Exhibition (Ravel orch.)




Max Bruch – Symphony no.1



Saxophone Concertos (Marco Polo CD)



It was a sunny but very cold day, just reached 6C during the afternoon.

Well, no more work till next week. I do have some online work though which means I do not have to travel in the cold.

Well, whatever the weather is like today, which will be dry if a little cloudy, I will be hot-footing off to do my last three visits of 2021.

These are all technology-based visits that are around virtual reality or things called Google Home Hub. The first visit will be in Tunbridge Wells and then two in Maidstone. I am catching the 7.50 am bus.

It will be a busy day.

After some initial rain in the morning, it turned out to be a very nice sunny day overall. I did three visits, in which two were in Sittingbourne and the other was in Maidstone. During the day I met Ewart for just one pint at his favourite pub in Suttingboune which is Donna's Ale House. I had a pint of Shivering Sands Knock John Ale (4.5 % ABV).

I arrived back home around four in the afternoon.

Another productive day. I did three visits in total, one in Dover and two in Ashford. Well, one of them was urgent and I negotiated thirty quid for it instead of the usual fifteen quid. Arrived home at around seven and it sure felt cooler than the miler day once the sun had gone.

Posted off a couple of items from eBay sales, sold a few books to Kate at Past Sentence, and another package to Ziffit.

The next few days I'll be relaxing anyway, and apparently, I have a package from my brother arriving tomorrow or the next day.