Friday morning I had a mishap with my laptop, it ended up with a broken screen, I droped it round to the local computer shop, the shop was going to be closed most of the next week, I was given a provisional collection date of a week Monday, I also asked mentioned that the internet connection randomly drops out, thay are going to check that as well.
I fired up the spare PC, this one was replaced as it was starting to play up as there is a battery problem, true to form it had changed all the settings, it changed the pages from being white with black text to black with white text, I spent some time getting it back to normal, certain things were still not working properly, it's a Dell laptop over the years I have had 2 Dell laptops, between them I have had more problems than all the other laptops, put together, I then got out the laptop I brought when I first started the blog, some time back I had it upgtaded to Windows 10 and a SSD drive installed.
I was searching my photo's for a picture of the portable setup I used to take on holiday, I could not find the pictures, I never took any records with me, I would buy them in the Charity shops clean them and post them, one of the first visits would be to Brixham, there is a rcord shop called the Cavern, there were lots of intresting records there, another record shop opened in Paignton I also brought a few records there, I think they fell victim of the Covid lockdown as when I went back after the lockdown it had closed.
The cover picture is of a pair of OO Works ex LSWR 700 class 0-6-0's, I had just fitted DCC chips to them, the red loco is a Hattons Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Katey being run in on the rolling road.
Yesterday while out on Biscuits walk someone we know said that he had been told that the stepping stones have been removed on Friday, we had just passed the fenced off stepping stones a quick detour, the barriers had not been moved and there was no sign of any machinery use on the banks, the stepping stones were still in place though underwater, Biscuit took the opportunity to have another dip in the river, I think the rumour was started by the same person who was telling people earlier in the year that Biscuit was dead.
While I was editing this post I thought of Julian Rose - The Rumour, I can find no evidence of this this t track being issued as a single, it is not on 45cat, I first came across the track on one of the 'Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands' CD;s, it has also appeared on 'Grooving With The Grim Reaper'
Tivvy was a TV Times mascot appearing in the TV adverts for the magazine.
An Australian release from September 1975, I came across the track on a recent download, while listening to the record I thought this could apply to almost any town, in the UK I was in the last year that you could leave school at 15 (1967), the children in the year following all most of them wanted to do was leave school, from the school I attended well over half the pupils left at 15 with no qualifications, after the leaving age was raised to16 it was still the same well over half still left with no qualifications, most of the others left with qualifications and a very few went on to further education, the ones who left without qualifications ended up in the local factories or as shop assistants.
Margret RoadKnight – Girls In Our Town - 1975 (Original Stereo)