Rodney Bewes - Meter Maid

 

Often the 'B' sides of records are never featured on Compilations or Greatest Hits records/CD's, this is one of the exceptions where it is the 'B' side is on the compilations and not the 'A' the only other record I can think of where the 'B' side is on the Compilations and not the 'A' side is A New Generation where the 'B' side 'She's A Soldier Boy' is on a number of compilations, while the 'A' side Smokey Blues Away has only recently appeared on CD.

This is the second single by Rodney Bewes so far the first one has eluded me.

Meter Maid

Muddy Paws

Yesterday I had to pick up an emergency prescription for my wife, the chemist had sent me a message that the item was ready, as they allow dogs into the chemist I took  Biscuit with me and took her for her morning walk on the way back, the Hogsmill Country Park starts close to the chemists, for some reason she went into the mill pond and came out with four black legs, the mud was cleaned off when she went into the river later in the walk. 

I also saw one of the Water Voles they introduced recently into the river recently, I only found out when the reintroduced them that the Water Vole was extinct in England.

One of the first tasks I do when I turn on my Laptop in the morning is clear the spam mail, I get a few but not that many on 'lordofthebootsale' almost always about payment for my non existent McAfee account or equally non existent iCloud account, I also have an AOL account I find this one is worse for spam, I only keep it going as one organisation I belong to despite repeated requests to change my email address still sends all the correspondence to my old email account.

 

The Gibsons - The Magic Book

This 1967 record got quite a bit of radio play when it was released, though the record failed to chart, this was also a record I could not afford to buy at the time, when I was buying EP's often on the back cover would be written in pencil a name followed by 7/6d paid 5/3d to pay, people had far less disposable income in those days, though most of the annotated EP's were from earlier in the decade.

When this record was released I was in the Sea Scouts and one of the stranger thing we did was man a water point for the Devizes to Westminster canoe race at Shepperton Lock, this meant being up all night, the lock was noted as it had an electric hand dryer in the toilet, one of the of tactical objects was to get to Teddington just before High Tide so you would have the tide assist you between Teddington and Westminster, this record was played twice on the radio on the short journey between Hampton and Shepperton on both the outward journey and the return journey.  

 The Gibsons – The Magic Book - YouTube

Fishing Cancelled

 Todays Fishing Trip from Brighton has been cancelled due to the weather, it's a bit windy, a replacement trip has been booked for the 21st of this month.

The picture was taken a couple of months ago in Epsom, I had caught the bus into Epsom as Lidl had advertised some fishing equipment, I was walking along Upper High Street to Lidl when I saw this doll abandoned outside one of the shops, on my way out of Lidl I was asked by someone where's Biscuit.

A short time later Aldi advertised a similar Item at a similar price so I checked it out, it turned out the Lidl item was larger and of better quality than the Aldi item.