CD's

This year I'm going to post all the CDs I buy on the blog.
This could get to be quite a large project.

3rd January 2009

The Eagles - The Complete Greatest Hits.

All the Eagles best tracks from the entire back catalogue.
Includes tracks from the last studio album, Long Road Out Of Eden.
Overall a great album, even better as its a double.




3rd January 2009

The second album of a 2 for £10 from HMV.

Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life

Heard a couple of tracks "Mr Rock & Roll" & "This Is The Life" on the radio and quite liked them.
Thought I'd risk it for a fiver.
Some tracks not to my taste, but I do like her voice.







2nd February 2009

A self titled album by a group called the "Fleet Foxes"

I'd not heard of them, until I bumped into a friend in HMV buying a copy.
We both have a similar taste in music, so I looked them up on youtube.
Liked what I heard so the following week, picked a copy up myself.

Not bad for a fiver. (I don't just buy £5 cd's :) )




Oh and the cover photograph, there is a very similar painting in the waiting room at my dentist

Yet More Snow

Thursday Morning 7am
It just started snowing as I set off for work. (35 mles)
Main roads were not too bad, though got worse behind me. Snowed till dinner time in Lincoln.
By home time the main roads were all clear again :) though side roads looked real bad.
Good job its Friday tomorrow.

Snow Snow Snow

Snowed on Sunday afternoon and night. Didn't get as much round here as they had in some parts of the country. Certainly nothing like London's covering.
Roads were clear going to work (Lincoln). Had some during the day, but had turned more sleet tonight and again roads were mostly clear.
Hope its the same in the morning.

No Snow (Yet)

Its currently quite bright outside, though its tried to snow a couple of times this morning.
The weather forcast is for a lot of snow today and into next week.

Yesterday, was a lovely afternoon.
Took a few shots of the gardens near the local council offices on the way into town. Be interesting to compare them in a couple of months once the flowers start to bloom and the trees come into leaf.

Cars

It's that time of year when I have the credit card savaged by the local Toyota Dealer.

Time for the annual car service. 

This time it was fairly major one. Still not as expensive as I'd expected it to be :)

Demise Of The (Decent) Record Shop

WH Smith has just announced it is closing the CD/DVD department in my local branch. Ok it was only a small choice, but it did add a bit more choice.

25+ years ago a small independant record shop opened in town. (Record Village) Not only did they sell a big range of music, they also hired videos. During the 80's they had 3 branchs in the area.

Not only them, I remember Smiths, Boots, Woolworth all sold records. As did Comet and a local electrical dealer, Vallences. All gone now :(

They may not have had massive shelves of music, but we had much more to look at then.
(Im talking about shops selling LP's and Cassettes. (I even remember 8-track tapes as well)

Now since Record Village closed, (mainly due to the high rents in the town) all we have is a tiny branch of HMV.

No wonder on line sales are going up.

My Local Pub

The Malt Shovel, Ashby
As promised earlier in this blog, here are some photographs taken with the new digital camera.
Nice friendly atmosphere. Have wide range of real ales 7 on hand pump, serve good food at reasonable prices.

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