baggage

found this ancient draft... 2014... the things i trolled about with... i do love to know what daft stuff folk carry with them... once left pretty much this lot that gorgeous bag in the french house lavs brilliantly handed in to the fine folk behind the bar...

bag poachers by tom franklin ancient iphone gaviscon wallet keys rspb bird identifying leaflets oyster card polaroid sx70 (how i wish i could still afford film) inhaler keys glassses case unknown photograph ( possibly involving kitten and plant pots)

knitted iphone case

lip balm x2 (burts bees mac tinted) broken hair thing polaroid sx70 case card from my dear old daft lost dad guitar shaped bottle opener pens x2 observer book of wild flowers postcard assortment. should also feature lots of tissues for this always sneezy schnozz guessing they'd all been used up

erykah badu - bag lady

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still ill

 i'm a little hoarse...

actually i'm pretty much better now but oh i've been bunged up bogged down coughing and spluttering wheezy and feeble... was always a sickly child... 

stay well my dears

hem - horsey

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pillow talk

ain't it funny how time does and doesn't slip away... woke up to the terror of 11.40pm ... insomnia hell... a whole night still... usually make to at least 2... oh fuck... and here where did march go? really thought it had only been a couple of weeks... oh fuck... that awake me! out of part fears two... 

vicki anderson - wide awake in a dream

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finally friday

hands up who thought we'd actually manage a whole week? (working) (i'm having the bloomin weekend off probably horizontal after this mammoth undertaking)... i'm not seeing any hands ... oh you faithless swines... not the most content heavy i'll admit but we've had nice pictures and smashing songs and a whole lot of dot dot dots... all the favourites...

anyway it's been a bit of week boozeless quiet kitchen based radiator cuddling cat videos to avoid the horrors not avoiding the horrors cat videos to help with the horrors and finally friday lager open beetroot roasting quietly pleased to've got here... 

let's have a dancer... youth has gone now but we still shine...

koop - let's elope

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thoughtful thursday

 

hang ups let downs bad breaks set backs... one of those days here history weighing grudges grudging ... 

anyway... this is calming and beautiful and everything... 

amadio - the very thought of you

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wordless wednesday

 

ba ba da ba da ba ba da ba da

kpm - melanie

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torment tuesday

only found out at the weekend that we'd lost mary weiss... how did i not know? did you know? surely it was front page news tributes everywhere flowers and tears in the streets? how did i miss it all? 

teenage angst is back again... thankyou for all of it...

the shangri-las - i can never go home anymore

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modal monday

 

perhaps a definitely not doomed attempt at a week full of all the old familiar faces will kick this sorry mess back to some imitation of life... 

lovely dee dee bridgewater sings the stylistics and even if it's not quite as wonderful as the stylistics it's still very very wonderful...

see you tomorrow heartfaces

dee dee bridgewater - people make the world go round

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ahem...

oh bugger this hasn't turned into the dynamic return it was supposed to be has it... not that anyone in the entire universe or the three of you that pop round here occassionally are suprised... inevitable really wasn't it. there was meant to be a 12th day mass observation thingy somewhere... well on the 12th... but i got the days muddled and missed it... next month (possibly)... oh and all sorts of things... perhaps a more realistic underwhelming attempt will work better...

anyway... the old tiny tinny portagraph has got dragged into service for a record a day... it was going to be a random record but i've chosen a couple of them oh and i've already missed a day or two but well...you know... you can follow along on the dusty7s youtube if you like...

eddie bo - from this day on

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back on board

she's here she's there she's every flipping where... well she's sitting on a radiator in the kitchen desperately trying to think of something to have for tea trying to keep warm trying to not turn the news on trying to not burst into tears trying to remember how to do this trying to give the world some love today baby trying to fill the world with love her whole life through and she's only just begun... just you wait...

welcome back petals

edwyn collins - low expectations

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away

see you next year petals... be good x

whispers (gettin' louder)

 

dusty singing we're doing fine on top of the pops popped out of the shuffle... dusty singing live on top of the pops... would you trust beautiful revolutionary dusty to sing we're doing fine live on top of the pops without sneaking anything sneaky in there? did you hear what she said? do you hear what she sneaked through? beautiful revolutionary dusty... oh dusty... 0.32... how much she cares... wishful thinking? oh dusty... (it's a brilliant thing regardless)

dusty springfield - we're doing fine

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it's a review

friday night in a very awkward to get to manchester suburb a shop front bar with a tiny back room a lovely shop front bar with a lovely tiny back room but still a very awkward to get to lovely shop front bar with a lovely tiny back room with someone who has made some of my all time favourite records of all time of all time in it... one of the world's greatest if not THE world's greatest safari suit and sandals wearers... here we were with twenty or so other people with the (like edwyn) taller (much) than you'd think still floppy gloriously silver haired brand new to my wide adoring eyes james flipping kirk just there wandering about all tall and unsafari suited and unsandalled and then playing us (about 20 maybe 30 of us) his songs with warren starry sky who did most of the chatting and singing and encouraging and was smashing at all three... there were beautiful you supply the roses and get on boards and a whole bunch of what's a new lp and we were at the bar again after half an hour absolutely  beaming ... glorious

james kirk - get on board

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hold the front page

in stunning news... i'm going out! tonight! at night! in the dark! not just to put the bins out but actually out... to see people playing pop music... and not just any people but james "tremendous" kirk... yes that one... in a tiny backroom of a tiny boozer... so of course i'm going out! it being the northern poorhouse the last bus there is at five past seven and the last bus back with quite a bit of a walk is half past ten so it's two busses one completely the wrong way... where's my crossrail... but james kirk people james "terrific" kirk... only got to see the orange juicers after he'd gone so i'm thrilled (obviously)

there should be a song i know but my music files are totally buggered and i can't seem to get you tube things to copy on here anymore ... bloody hell... anyway i've been singing get on on board a lot so go and find that it's super 

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she's been a scrubber all her life

a week of kitchen sliding stepping joy seeking in handfuls of 45s moving and doing it like a like a old lady high off a hugely satisfying pile of washing up... washing up how i love you always in the morning teatime pots and pans soaked the surreal baffling babbling of the alan brazil sports breakfast coffee hitting a job actually started and miraculously finished... satisfaction guaranteed... 

gene waiters - shake and shing-a-ling pt1

(there's a dishwasher i scowl at viciously even though it's a handy home to an old radio cassette player and a big bag of tapes assorted leads and some baking trays)

lost frequencies

thinking of old friends somehow lost... phones not picked up messages not replied to invitations unattended lots of we really must... 

bill charlap trio - what are you doing the rest of your life

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hot good refreshing

fighting back against the hellish horrors and rotten rotters with astounding amounts of booze and cheese and kitchen swirling... i hope this cheers you as much as it does me only came upon it a bit ago still suprised it's dj shadow but hell well done mr shadow... keep on swirling petals

dj shadow - this time (i'm gonna try it my way)

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lost indie corner

the floppiest flickiest fringe.. the bobbiest bob... andy diagramesque trumpet... everything to make a beanoraked swinger sway... on the bill everywhere for a while and for reasons that still mystify i've never knowingly heard a benny profane song

the room - new dreams for old

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ps

wonderful biography of the group by singer dave jackson here
 

stand up straight and tall

birthday last week... blown to bits by the losses defeats failures... sleep and kind words turned the brightness back up...

armouring up with awesome wonders

the independents - lucky fellow

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if i should fall behind

well this was supposed to be a thing about stuff  but oh bugger there's been distractions and it's been sunny and i've got new spectacles that have buggered up my arms length  distance and i thought i had the record i wanted to play but it's not there so i'm going to have to try and remember what lead goes goes where to record it and oh ....

must try harder

three tops - do it right