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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'. ...

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'...

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...