sidewinder

Happy Birthday !

The man is a phenomenon. Great to hear that he's still so active filling the clubs.

More snow outside the house today. Should be OK to drive through to work though (sigh).

Rendell/Carr Quintet 'Change Is' (UK Columbia Lansdowne series, stereo)

Georgia Onmymind George Galloway Tommy Sheridan

Put 'em in a skip - like all of those Larry Young Mosaic sets !

No - just slightly silly.

I've used an external Soundblaster card via USB to DIN converters to reasonably good effect porcy. It seems to function best with the internal MC boards still in situ in the pre-amp. Good results at 24 bit/96 kHz.

Terry Smith with th Tony Lee trio 'British Jazz Artists - Vol 2' (Lee-Lambert) Nice !

I have the Jasmine of the LP and find it to be more than acceptable - great LP. The Jasmine should also be an affordable price (hate to think what an original Tempo LP of the 10" would cost). The Jasmine I think has the 'Nowhere To Go' soundtrack bonus tracks. It's the Tempo EP of that one I have, with the crazy cover art. Oh dear - I wish I hadn't seen the details of the Japanese 'clone'. I'm tempted, as I like the Tubby Hayes LPs they've done.

I remember the first few series airing on BBC2 - and they only got a fringe audience until it eventually 'took off'. Eventually it was a mainstream series. One of the later sketches had me in hysterics and still makes me laugh thinking about it. Terry Jones in drag as 'Mrs Scum' going out shopping to buy a piston engine ('Hello Mrs Scum - been shopping? Naaah - been shopping...'). Probably the same show that he/she is ironing the cat with hubby on sofa covered in beans !

An attractive offer - but $60 international shipping is pretty steep. Damn ! What do they do, line the shipping box in ermine?

Reginald Maudling's left.......elbow?

(a customer walks in the door.) Customer: Good Morning. Owner: Good morning, Sir. Welcome to the National Cheese Emporium! Customer: Ah, thank you, my good man. Owner: What can I do for you, Sir? C: Well, I was, uh, sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through "Rogue Herrys" by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish. O: Peckish, sir? C: Esuriant. O: Eh? C: 'Ee, Ah wor 'ungry-loike! O: Ah, hungry! C: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, "a little fermented curd will do the trick," so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles! O: Come again? C: I want to buy some cheese. O: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the bazouki player! C: Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse! O: Sorry? C: 'Ooo, Ah lahk a nice tuune, 'yer forced too! O: So he can go on playing, can he? C: Most certainly! Now then, some cheese please, my good man. O: (lustily) Certainly, sir. What would you like? C: Well, eh, how about a little red Leicester. O: I'm, a-fraid we're fresh out of red Leicester, sir. C: Oh, never mind, how are you on Tilsit? O: I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, sir, we get it fresh on Monday. C: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four ounces of Caerphilly, if you please. O: Ah! It's beeeen on order, sir, for two weeks. Was expecting it this morning. C: 'T's Not my lucky day, is it? Aah, Bel Paese? O: Sorry, sir. C: Red Windsor? O: Normally, sir, yes. Today the van broke down. C: Ah. Stilton? O: Sorry. C: Ementhal? Gruyere? O: No. C: Any Norweigan Jarlsburg, per chance. O: No. C: Lipta? O: No. C: Lancashire? O: No. C: White Stilton? O: No. C: Danish Brew? O: No. C: Double Goucester? O: <pause> No. C: Cheshire? O: No. C: Dorset Bluveny? O: No. C: Brie, Roquefort, Pol le Veq, Port Salut, Savoy Aire, Saint Paulin, Carrier de lest, Bres Bleu, Bruson? O: No. C: Camenbert, perhaps? O: Ah! We have Camenbert, yessir. C: (suprised) You do! Excellent. O: Yessir. It's..ah,.....it's a bit runny... C: Oh, I like it runny. O: Well,.. It's very runny, actually, sir. C: No matter. Fetch hither the fromage de la Belle France! Mmmwah! O: I...think it's a bit runnier than you'll like it, sir. C: I don't care how fucking runny it is. Hand it over with all speed. O: Oooooooooohhh........! <pause> C: What now? O: The cat's eaten it. C: <pause> Has he. O: She, sir. (pause) C: Gouda? O: No. C: Edam? O: No. C: Case Ness? O: No. C: Smoked Austrian? O: No. C: Japanese Sage Darby? O: No, sir. C: You...do *have* some cheese, don't you? O: (brightly) Of course, sir. It's a cheese shop, sir. We've got-- C: No no... don't tell me. I'm keen to guess. O: Fair enough. C: Uuuuuh, Wensleydale. O: Yes? C: Ah, well, I'll have some of that! O: Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Mister Wensleydale, that's my name. (pause) C: Greek Feta? O: Uh, not as such. C: Uuh, Gorgonzola? O: no C: Parmesan, O: no C: Mozarella, O: no C: Paper Cramer, O: no C: Danish Bimbo, O: no C: Czech sheep's milk, O: no C: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese? O: Not *today*, sir, no. (pause) C: Aah, how about Cheddar? O: Well, we don't get much call for it around here, sir. C: Not much ca--It's the single most popular cheese in the world! O: Not 'round here, sir. C: <slight pause> and what IS the most popular cheese 'round hyah? O: Ilchester', sir. C: IS it. O: Oh, yes, it's staggeringly popular in this manusquire. C: Is it. O: It's our number one best seller, sir! C: I see. Uuh...'Ilchester, eh? O: Right, sir. C: All right. Okay. 'Have you got any?' he asked, expecting the answer 'no'. O: I'll have a look, sir... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno. C: It's not much of a cheese shop, is it? O: Finest in the district! C: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please. O: Well, it's so clean, sir! C: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.... O: (brightly) You haven't asked me about Limburger, sir. C: Would it be worth it? O: Could be.... C: Have you --SHUT THAT BLOODY BAZOUKI OFF! O: Told you sir.... C: (slowly) Have you got any Limburger? O: No. C: Figures. Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place. Tell me: O: Yessir? C: (deliberately) Have you in fact got any cheese here at all. O: Yes,sir. C: Really? (pause) O: No. Not really, sir. C: You haven't. O: Nosir. Not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time,sir. C: Well I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you. O: Right-0, sir. The customer takes out a gun and shoots the owner. C: What a *senseless* waste of human life.

'Albatros !'

Three 78s in batter? Mushy peas with that?

Aren't they on just about every 80s porn sountrack?

Worst snow over here in nearly 20 years - it's GREAT ! Of course many of the wusses in and around London and the SE made their excuses to phone in for the day off..

I NEVER forget about that Amos Milburn Mosaic. One of my major regrets is not having known about that set until after the CDs were all finished - I didn't want it on LP, so I didn't get it. A BAD mistake. PM coming !

Don't mention Amos - I'd forgotten about him too..

Harold Steptoe Albert Steptoe Wilfred Bramble

The Iron Lady Ronnie Reagan Gorbachev

I'll bet some George Braith would go down well..

George Braith 'Two Souls In One' (BN NY USA mono) Yeah !

Good reminder - I really must dig that one out again.