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Awful, awful music. I only persisted with this for Black Hole Sun - hardly the cheeriest of tunes. I'm proud of my musical prejudices. Ultimately I know I am right. You always need some Roll with your Rock. No soul, no ta.
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It was good to have Robert Elms back on BBC London. I'm still finding my morning rhythm is disrupted with Friday, Saturday and Sunday only shows. He dropped the
ACE Who Knows by Protojee - PROPER contemporary London reggae. The scene is still there, still developing, still evolving. It's interesting to see the trend of a return to roots reggae in recent years.
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There was a brilliant Notes and Queries question. A listener wanted to know if there was any truth in the suggestion that Boardwalk running through Kensington Gardens is a makeshift runway strip. The theory went that it was designed to be straight and with a slight ramp. The intention was to be a makeshift runway should the Royals ever need to do a runner. No definitive answer was given. It sounded more like an urban myth.
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I caught up with the latest Garibaldi Red podcast It was cheerful listening. The conversation centred around which players Forest will keep if they are relegated to the Championship. This then opened up the broader question of would it be a disaster if Forest went down? The season ends in May. We've yet to reach October.
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There was optimism in the BBC Nottingham Shut Up and Show More Football podcast this week. Ex-Forest player Paul Anderson was the guest. He spoke of how is jealous that he couldn't play in the current atmosphere that is generated at The World Famous City Ground. Anderson also explained if you had said last year that Steve Cooper would get Forest promoted and then keep them in the Premier League, then you have been thought of as a fool. They were wise words, tbh.
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I snaffled a Willie Nelson Crazy Demos CD for £3. I had this on cassette back in the day, recorded on a TDK D90 after taking out a CD copy in the local library. I keep on having random thoughts about some of the gaps in my CD collection. Willie Nelson is a major omission that needs addressing. But where to start?
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I contacted M about Buzz. Time has been tight of late. My contributions have been poor. Payment is available, but it's not exactly the day job. That's where my main focus needs to be right now. It's a similar story for The Chronic. You need to pay to play. There's an awful lot to pay for right now. Sadly reading a 200 page #localgov planning report and trying to make sense of it doesn't pay the bills.
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I had Friday afternoon set aside for a bicycle ride. The weather forecast was shocking for later in the day. I was determined to roll out. It was also an opportunity to try and get my Covid booster jab. I planned a route so that the Elmstead vaccination centre was on my radar.
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I rocked up with no queue. There was a brisk in and out system taking place. Minimal questions were asked, no ID was asked for. The only issue was that I wasn't exactly dressed for the occasion. I was wearing a rather tight fitting retro cycling top. There was a moment when I feared I would have to enter the village hall topless. I managed to expose enough flesh for the magic needle to work its magic. There. Job done.
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It perhaps wasn't the wisest decision to then disappear and press on with a 30km ride. In my defence I did wait five minutes to see if I felt dizzy. I didn't. Chapeau!
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This was a race agains time to beat the forecast rain. I was also treated to another inspiring autumnal colour display. I thought for a moment that a hot air balloon had landed in a nearby field. It turned out to be a tree with a red seasonal colour change before the leaves drop.
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I was riding along empty windswept lanes. There was a carpet of acorns and conkers to navigate. And then a little further out towards what I optimistically call the Paris-Roubaix stretch of Essex, soil from the fields was blown around and circulating along the pavé stretches.
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I was safely home with no vaccination after affects, and no rain. I watched the Pakistan Vs England t20, but then gave up just as the host country seemed to do halfway through England's innings.
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An XTC Oranges and Lemons CD appeared in my eBay mails at the bargain price of £2.49 with free postage. There was no picture, which troubled me slightly. But £2.49 - C'MON.
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I played The Womb's Anthems for a Doomed Youth CD. I've no idea how or why I bought this. It must have been some early online recommendation at the turn of the last Century. It's a DIY effort, pressed up on the mp3.com label. It was a vanity publishing model for the early mp3 generation.
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The album wasn't as quirky as I remembered. I bailed when the line "Remember what the feminists said, keep a vibrator by your bed" surfaced. They were very different times.
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I pressed on with some Colne Radio work. Oh - and Carly Simon. WHAT a girl.
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