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Week from Monday 18th November 2024 - I've had the opportunity this week to finish off a couple of MUSIC PROJECTS:- I've 'processed' the latest download from the STICK MEN (BOOTLEGS) concern, plus I've been doing the ol''DeeJay' thang and compiling another one of my famous "AMBIENT MEGAMIX" seedies, this one featuring recent space music from THE UTOPIA STRONG, MARKUS REUTER and CLOUDLAND BLUE QUARTET. Then when it was all done, I accidentally lost the finished disc down the back of a cupboard when I was moving some gear about! I eventually figured out a way to recover the disc by shifting the furniture a tad and squeezing my conveniently-emaciated arm through the gap! (In addition to the above, there's also an official STICK MEN eepee and a live CAN release due from Bandcamp on Friday.) On Thursday, the weather was atrocious, but I had to venture out to the HORSEPICKLE for a walk-in BLOOD TEST, ahead of next Tuesday's telephone consu...

Week from Monday 11th November 2024 - I paid a 'shopping' visit to GOSPORT... and with HORSEPICKLE appointments now piling up for well into the New Year, I figured it must be about that time when I acquired a 2025 DIARY to write it all down in! Yes folks, it's VOLUME TWO of "My Medical Life"! I spent a morning transferring still-relevant notes from an old diary into the new one, and I added the unwanted old stuff onto the ever-growing SHREDDER heap. I've installed the BBC SOUNDS app onto 'MY BIGGER ANDROID' and I'm tinkering around to see what one can and can't do on it. I've got last night's FERGUS McCREADIE concert off of Radio Three by way of a 'TEST CASE'. It's a well-thought-out app, but I've already found some snags. The app allows you to download programmes for OFFLINE listening (for up to thirty days after the broadcast), but I can't for the life of me work out where the 'downloads' are saved to on...

Week from Monday 28th October 2024 - British Summer Time is officially over and the clocks went back... Some folks saw that as "an extra hour in bed" but I didn't. My own bodyclock now says it's time to wake up an hour 'EARLIER', regardless of why the one on the wall says. It's in no way relaxing 'cos I have to get up anxiously and have a poo'n'pee before seven, instead of a more sensible time! (Too much information!) Then there's the fact that it gets dark at teatime now and I already feel tired 'EARLIER' in the evening... Why do we still do it, eh? (...so 'SEVEN IS THE NEW EIGHT'. But now that I think about it, waking up at seven probably suits me BETTER now. I've got to be up and ready to catch an eight-forty-five bus this coming Saturday...) The most depressing news of the last few days is the announcement that next summer will be the last time that the TOUR DE FRANCE will be free-to-air. ITV are dumping it. So n...