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Afternoon All AWOL due to the stresses of the move, which was on/off/on/off - our buyer threatened to pull out as she has been waiting for over 6 months now. Should now happen on Wednesday, and a removal crew is booked. The stress has been causing sleepless nights, and combined with a bug which we caught, and my diabetes being under very poor control - jumping from 5.0 to 18.2 and no stability to it at all. The three caused me to start having nightmares that the solicitor had increased our bill to £20000 and waking up in a cold sweat - I had that dream twice now, and this time I got up at 4.30 and went down the recheck all the paperwork which had been generated - three hours with 30747 helping, we redid all the sums and were then able to start on taking down the rest of the cupboards in the dining room. One very strange thing was that during one of my nighttime/daytimes, the thought occurred to me that when the dishwasher comes out it drains via an open spigot into the sink drain - great, there is no spigot cover - but the answer came to me - use a great big dollop of mastic, which was still out from the last time I resealed the bath. Eureka - success without a visit to Scewfix for a fiver's worth of pipe closer. Anyway - back the other side of the move. Regards to All Stewart

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - Bobby Vee

Love Me Do - early (very) fab four. Sad how I remember my first hearing of it as though it was last week

Higher and HIgher - Moody Bluse

Go Now - early Moody Blues.

I Am The Walrus - tbe fabs

I've been waiting a while to get this on here - she's brilliant

Like A Virgin - Madonna

Isn't Life Strange - Moody Blues

Running Bear - Johnny Preston

Strange Brew - Cream

Afternoon All Sorry about absence (as ever) - yesterday started well (NOT) with me losing a filling at 06.45 = quick email to our dentist, and then a message on their (now working again was not for a year) answering maching - got a callback at 08.15, and was seen at 10.30 (my appointment was for 10.00) Now got a new filling and done on NHS - great. I left my mobile at home, and I hadn't touched it since last Thursday, and when I got it, I found it totally dead - I had left it in my drawer, after it had been drenched in one of these rainstorms - I did give it a good drying, but it would not take a charge - so back into town after lunch to visit the o2 shop where I had to get a new Nokia - my last was a Samsung Galaxy, but I couldn't afford that - still it works and I can do just about the same on it as I did on the Galaxy, only for £200 less. Then today we had to go into Manchester to see our solicitor - I checked the AA driving directions, and took them down accurately - but as half the roads that it suggested were closed, we managed to get lost in Salford as one road had a direction to turn down it, but it was closed, and the next one was a no entry, so we would up on the wrong side of the CIty Centre of Machester, then after going down a closed road (access only due to road works) we somehow came out (don't ask me how) on the street where the car park nearest our solicitor was located - shame we were 1/2 hour late - but she didn't mind. Generic greetings are of course on offer. Regards to All Stewart

99 Miles from LA - Art Garfunkel

Afternoon All Sorry, but events are still overtaking me with the laptop and much, much skipping has occurred. I was asked by a neighbour to come up to his late dad's house (just up the road), as he was a railway enthusiast until he passed away aged 92, and left a lage collection of railway books, which he had no idea about. It was all pretty straightforward stuff, except for a couple of items, on which I will need to seek specialist advice - a GWR booklet from 1924 in the 1927 reprint - in good order, called Through the Carriage window - never seen it before, but it stood out among all the Paul Atterbury, Eric Treacy, and Rigger Siviter stuff - had I still been dealing, I'd have offered £200 for the lot - I've advised that I would put them in touch with a couple of dealers who might be interested. Anyway - this dod not pop into my inbox, I only found it via the YouTube algorothm to find that it featured a reprise of Josh Turner's 12m plus hits Sultans Of Swing with somebody whom I didn't know, called Mary Spender Regards to All Stewart

Sweet Georgia Brown - take your pick - there's a lot out there.

Judy In Disguise WIth Glasses - John Fred and the Playboy Band

I wouldn't bother until Eunice has had her say- another amber for Manchester tomorrow - I was due to go down tomorrow from Lancaster to sign most of the documents for the move, which is still snailing along, but seems to have progressed a bit - I was going down by train. The amber warning has really put me off - I have no wish to get stranded due to OHLE damage, as happened yesterday with an "object caught in the overhead wires"near Manchester Airport, and as many of the trains to and from originate there, I felt that it was not a good idea. So I've postponed the meeting until Tuesday - with no bad weather forecast, I may even drive down, as there's two of us going now (appparently 30747 also has to be there now for ONE document) it will probably be cheaper. Afternoon All Well, at least Dudley didn't do much at all round here, and our amber for tomorrow has downgraded to a yellow - while many parts have been upgraded. Looks as if Lancaster will fall between two areas again - we were just inside the amber last night, and the winds were blustery, but fairly light compared to some - and the strong winds were to the North of us. Tomorrow, we now fall just outside the amber with the worst being to the South of us. We also seem to get some shelter from Fraggle Rock here from some winds, as it sets up a sort of wave motion and the highest gusts seem to be behind the town and our villages. That won't work tomorrow, as the winds are from the South. Sorry, but I've had to be AWOL most of the week - all I can offer is generic geetings, Regards to All Stewart

Isn't Life Strange - Moody Blues

When I lived down South, and was travelling North on business, I normally chose the A1 to the M1 - if I was going a bit further west, I chose the M40 to Brum, rather than the M6. I always managed to get a decent breakfast on the A1 - but last time I used it coming home from Norfolk, I found most, if not all, had closed or been converted to coffee shops, and the greatest loss was the Ram Jam Inn, which in its day served an excellent breakfast, and also had the cheapest fuel on the entire road.

Afternoon All Not a lot to report - move still snailing along - many pages skipped = sorry - greetngs of the generic variety to all who need/deserve them. Got a real bargain yesterday at the Ingleton jumble sale (which comes as a "kit" hire the hall and get all the helpers and the exact same layout every week - unusual, but helpful for us regulars - it is a bit like a club) - there was a nearly new Philips boom box priced at £15, and I looked at it, and ummed and aahed over it, and the guy who does the electricals most weeks said he had tested it last night, and it was in perfect working order, and "as you're a regular, give me a fiver for it" - brought it home, and it is every bit as good as he said - there is one just sold on eBay last week for £35 plus postage! Regards to All Stewart ps tomorrow, I will probably not be here, as I will be using the laptop to do some serious chasing of move documents.

It wasn't the country of origin which was the issue, it was the fact that most bottled beers were filtered and pasteurised, rather than "real" bottled beer which often had about a centimeter of sediment as it was bottled with some yeast left in it - I had a little ritual which I did to horrify the CAMRA people - I bought a White Shield Worthington, did the usual, which was to get the bottle to eye level, and carefully pour it into the glass, leaving all the sediment in the neck of the bottle - then shake up what was left, and poured that in as well - never did me any harm.

Love Lift Us Up - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warne

Agreed Andrew, I was a very early CAMRA member (I was recruited by Michel Hardman personally, and ISTR that my membership number was about 550 or thereabouts. There were some who would have sucked "real ale" through a smelly sock and not be able to taste the difference - cloudy, big lumps of sediment were regarded as normal - and one keen member was drinking Ruddles County in Becky's Dive Bar in London, where they used to keep the casks on the floor, and you could sit on them too - when a new cask was needed (it was dispensed by gravity) all the barman did was to get a cask, tap it, spile it, and serve it straight away. When we visited Rutland, and Tony Ruddle hosted us to a pub lunch and a brewery and taproom visit (all we paid was the coach), he served immaculate hand pulled County, and the same member protested that this wasn't "proper" county, as it had no bits in, and you could see through it. Another time, I was in a pub where the branch chairman was drinking some VERY suspect Courage DIrectors - again cloudy and lumpy - the Best was off, so I ordered a bottle of Lowenbrau (at that time German brewed), and the chairman came over to me and muttered "f**cking traitor". I resigned my membership the next morning. Afternoon All Not a lot to report, but any Foxes and Fossils fans will be saddened to learn that Scott King, the bass guitarist, passed away a couple of weeks ago - here's the band's tribute to him recorded while he was fit (he had a very fast spreading cancer). Regards to All Stewart

Spanish Eyes - Al Martino

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