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Predicaments

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Week from Monday 15th September 2025 - I went up to the hozzy for yet another BLOOD TEST ahead of this week's telephone consultation with the DOCs... But due to ROAD WORKS, the bus didn't stop directly outside of the hospital, as is its wont. Instead, one had to debus at the other side of the roundabout and walk up the hill! I just about managed it (breathlessly), but anybody who is actually handicapped or infirmed would have been totally buggered! Most inconsiderate, they really didn't think it through... "CELEBRA CADA SEGUNDO"? The final week of LA VUELTA fizzled out in an even more anti-climactic style than ever! All of those stages that were truncated due to PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS make an absolute mockery of any time-based rankings. In the event of such occurrences, everybody is given the same time at wherever they decide to end it. How can you say that someone 'won' a race that didn't actually FINISH? The last day's processional ride int...
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Curated

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Week from Monday 1st September 2025 - On Saturday, I dashed desperately into town to visit the CARTRIDGE WORLD concern, to avail myself of new toner for my 'office' printer. Turns out they are closed on Saturdays! So I had to make the journey AGAIN on Monday morning and was thus able to combine it with a 'regular' shopping trip (Teabags! Coffee! Chilli sauce!), before getting back to "MONDAY DOING MONDAY STUFF". LA VUELTA continues in chaotic style, but this week also brings the TOUR OF BRITAIN, which is being carried in full by ITV4 (Ned Boulting et al). Should be fun, if only for enjoying the scenery! MADS PEDERSEN would appear to have sealed the deal in the Vuelta's GREEN JERSEY points competition, unless anything untoward happens in the last week. As is so often with 'GRAND TOURS', I've already lost interest in what's happening in GC. Besides, with all the shortened stages, a number of 'wins' and the subsequent TIME difference...
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King Crimson 2015

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On the 5th September 2015 , ten whole years ago now, we had the opportunity to see the newly invigorated KING CRIMSON in its 'seven-headed-beast' configuration for the first time. I thought it might be interesting (for me anyway!) to revisit the bloggydiarythingy for that time, in all its unabridged entirety - the ANTICIPATION, the EXPERIENCE, the AFTERMATH. I'm afraid that, looking back, it does read as a bit 'gushingly fanboy' at times, but these were MY opinions, MY thoughts and MY feelings as they wuz writ. I might not necessarily agree with MYSELF now, especially on the subject of 'all that drumming', but I've recently heard the whole show again via the DGMlive.com concern and it's a fair appraisal when all's said and done... (Listening back to it now, I still stand by my opinion that I preferred "Larks' Tongues II" and "Level Five" when played live by the STICK MEN, rather than by the full-blown KCrim.) Week fr...
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Bits

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Week from Monday 18th August 2025 - I took a trip down to Gosport, but I'd forgotten that the Print Shop chaps were on holiday all week. Nevermind, I needed to go downtown anyway, to stock up on GAFFA TAPE... (I made the trip again a few days later, so that I could run off another bunch of CD covers.) It's been a quiet sort of week, hence there's not been much to DIARY about. I've busied myself with a couple of "MUSIC PROJECTS", mostly involving turning PROMS things into either CDs or MP3s. I've also been doing some fairly deep listening of 'new' stuff via BANDCAMP. Week from Monday 25th August 2025 - Ooh look! another ruddy 'ORE GUSHED BANG COLLAR DAY'... I'm spending a huge chunk of the day binge-watching the entire six episodes of the spy drama "THE VEIL". It's compelling stuff, but I think it's fair to say that I probably wouldn't have had the time to get into it if we didn't have a 'DAY OFF'. ...
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Getting Through With It

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Week from Monday 4th August 2025 - I've bitten yet another bullet and visited the virtual CURRYS, to order a new TELEVISION. I thought long-and-hard about which to buy, as I have to consider how it will fit my shelf space and how it will connect to my various other devices. It hasn't escaped my attention that tellies don't have SCART sockets anymore, so some ADAPTER CABLING is in order. Too many of the models nowadays come loaded with a bunch of "SMART TV" software which I refuse to use. I've plumped for a 24-inch JVC which should fit my FREEVIEW needs. While I wait for it to arrive, I'm sketching wee diagrams in my notebook, to figure out how to 'plumb' it into my existing system... Having completed listening to ('THONNING!) my own REAL WORLD RECORDS collection, not to mention having compiled a fairly thorough spreadsheet documenting it all, I thought I'd pay a visit to their BANDCAMP facility to see/hear what else is 'out there'...
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Signals

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Week from Monday 28th July 2025 - I took a trip up that horsepickle for a comprehensive selection of BLOOD TESTS, ahead of this week's telephone chat with the Daktari (strikes permitting!). There was quite a lot of 'PATIENT WAITING' involved, as there were about a dozen folks ahead of me in the 'queue' this morning. But with that out of the way, I went down into Pompey to poke about in one or two CHAZZAS. I found poundsworth seedycopies of SANDY DENNY's "The Best Of The BBC Recordings", JOHN SCOFIELD's "A Go Go" and the "Great Composers" volume of BACH's organ works. The latter two items are 'upgrades' for ones that I already have on cassette. The TOUR DE FRANCE is done and dusted. It's been a long (and mostly gripping) month, but I'm kind of glad it's over, so that I can now concentrate on OTHER things! It's a LOVE/HATE thang. As I mentioned before, close attention to a sport can occupy far TOO MAN...
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Me shows

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Week from Monday 7th July 2025 - Another week for clearing up a few overdue 'MUSIC PROJECTS', mostly stuff to go on the "Miles-Related" MP3 disc... I've also initiated a new 'THON on my soshul meejer. I'm attempting to play EVERY CD or TAPE in (what I have of) the REAL WORLD RECORDS catalogue, in chronological order. And with a lot of 'fake news' circulating about there being a "NEW KING CRIMSON STUDIO ALBUM", I dug out the mix CD that I did a while back, of all the 'new' material from the Seven Headed Beast's live albums. I should really get around to printing a cover for it! But first I have to GO OUT... I've combined my routine Tuesday Poundlanding with a trip up to the hozzy for a routine blood test. I don't think this involved any more footslogging than usual, but I'm somehow left with VERY sore feet this morning. This might be because my BLOOD PRESSURE seems to have dipped a bit lately. We'll see what t...
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