Bits
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'.
Meanwhile, LA VUELTA has commenced. I'm hoping MADS PEDERSEN can complete the trilogy in this year's "Big Three" Grand Tours POINTS competitions, although this time he'll have rival sprinter JASPER PHILIPSEN to contend with, him off of the shampoo team. LiDL-TREK are fielding a very similar lineup to the one that rode the GIRO D'ITALIA, so hopefully, GIULIO CICCONE has fully recovered from that race's big crash and can try again for a GC ranking.
I'll be watching the daily TNT SPORTS 'highlights' on QUEST (with the sound off, natch! No more "YES, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE CAN SEE THAT THE PILLOWTONE..." for me!), but I expect I will mostly get the detailed 'gen' via the various experts I follow on the BLOOSKY. I've also installed the official LA VUELTA app on my tablet for the duration. As well as giving me a comprehensive list of all the STANDINGS and all the background information I could possibly need, I can watch 'highlights' videos that AREN'T saturated with enough computer graphics to make your eyes bleed, or commentated on by an incomprehensible Irishman, a woman with weird dress-sense and a couple of hand-jiving, gurning plonkers on a fake stage set. (There ARE ads, of course, but what 'app' doesn't have them?)
I took a trip into town for some routine SHOPPING FOR BITS. Needless to say, I also had a shufti around a couple of CHARITY SHOPS. I picked up some interesting-looking FIFTY-PEE CDs:- a couple of albums of J.S. BACH arranged for classical guitar, a Naxos of Spanish guitar pieces from the end of the eighteenth century, and the album "The House On The Hill" by the 'highly acclaimed' 'seventies band AUDIENCE. Of these, there were two that I did NOT find at all appealing! I'll let you guess which ones...
Ten years ago, this amusing "FRANGLAIS" exchange on the still-called-Twitter...
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'.
Meanwhile, LA VUELTA has commenced. I'm hoping MADS PEDERSEN can complete the trilogy in this year's "Big Three" Grand Tours POINTS competitions, although this time he'll have rival sprinter JASPER PHILIPSEN to contend with, him off of the shampoo team. LiDL-TREK are fielding a very similar lineup to the one that rode the GIRO D'ITALIA, so hopefully, GIULIO CICCONE has fully recovered from that race's big crash and can try again for a GC ranking.
I'll be watching the daily TNT SPORTS 'highlights' on QUEST (with the sound off, natch! No more "YES, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE CAN SEE THAT THE PILLOWTONE..." for me!), but I expect I will mostly get the detailed 'gen' via the various experts I follow on the BLOOSKY. I've also installed the official LA VUELTA app on my tablet for the duration. As well as giving me a comprehensive list of all the STANDINGS and all the background information I could possibly need, I can watch 'highlights' videos that AREN'T saturated with enough computer graphics to make your eyes bleed, or commentated on by an incomprehensible Irishman, a woman with weird dress-sense and a couple of hand-jiving, gurning plonkers on a fake stage set. (There ARE ads, of course, but what 'app' doesn't have them?)
I took a trip into town for some routine SHOPPING FOR BITS. Needless to say, I also had a shufti around a couple of CHARITY SHOPS. I picked up some interesting-looking FIFTY-PEE CDs:- a couple of albums of J.S. BACH arranged for classical guitar, a Naxos of Spanish guitar pieces from the end of the eighteenth century, and the album "The House On The Hill" by the 'highly acclaimed' 'seventies band AUDIENCE. Of these, there were two that I did NOT find at all appealing! I'll let you guess which ones...
Ten years ago, this amusing "FRANGLAIS" exchange on the still-called-Twitter...
pedantic pedestrian • Et maintenent, je suis listening to some rather délicieux Boulez and Ravel sur les Proms @bbcproms @BBCRadio3
The Crystal Carrot • J'aime Ravel aussi. Il est un de my favourite composers.
pedantic pedestrian • Et now "L'Oiseau de Fire" par Igor Stravinsky (qui wasn't Français, but il habite-la) @bbcproms @BBCRadio3
The Crystal Carrot • Y a-t-il beaucoups d'autres composers dans le programme?
pedantic pedestrian • Boulez et Ravel dans le first half, Stravinsky pour la big finish! @bbcproms @BBCRadio3
The Crystal Carrot • J'aime Ravel aussi. Il est un de my favourite composers.
pedantic pedestrian • Et now "L'Oiseau de Fire" par Igor Stravinsky (qui wasn't Français, but il habite-la) @bbcproms @BBCRadio3
The Crystal Carrot • Y a-t-il beaucoups d'autres composers dans le programme?
pedantic pedestrian • Boulez et Ravel dans le first half, Stravinsky pour la big finish! @bbcproms @BBCRadio3
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