Marshmellows - Madalena Hadalena

This is another record that I first came across on the late Mark Birds "Whacky Classics You May Have Missed" CD's, despite this being released in 1976 there is no information about the Marshmallows, when I posted this record on the blog I mentioned that that their was no information available about them, in those days I had one follower who used to leave sarcastic remarks anonymously, I know who he was though, he lived in New York State, I did know the City but have forgotten the name now, he posted on US time Thursday Evenings, Mother at Hairdressers? and Sundays, Mother at Church, He said more information about the group would be helpful, I suppose I could of made up some fictional information about the group for him, it was not that long ago that I deleted all his comments, his comments never made it onto the blog, I was thinking of blocking him but he would just use another name.

It is my copy of the record on 45Cat and according to the stats I am the only person who admits to owing this record.  

For some reason todays original post "Topo de bill - Jam" defaulted to when I loaded the original post in August, I used to get the problem on the original Blog when editing some posts would default to the date of the edit others would remain at the date they were first posted.

The Marshmellows - Madalena Hadalena (youtube.com)

Fishing Gosport 14/11/2024

 

The planned fishing trip from Gosport went ahead yesterday, it was not a pleasant journey down to Gosport, being foggy for almost the whole journey, but luckily the road works at the A3/M25 interchange had no delays at 05.15 in the morning but a different story on the return journey in the evening. Arriving at Gosport Marina the car park was almost empty, unusual as the car park was normally packed, the Marina had lots of complaints that users of the Marina were finding it difficult to park, it turned out that the Marina had the cheapest car parking and non Marina users were taking advantage of it, they had installed a new system, when leaving the marina you now have to go to the Marina Office and they process your ticket to give you the concessionary rate rather than a code to input into the ticket machine.

There were supposed to be 8 on the fishing trip, 2 had dropped in advance due to illness, 5 were there well before the 07.30 start time, we waited but the 6th person did not turn up, so with no sign of him the boat left, we expected a flurry of emails/phone calls but nothing, because of the wait when we arrived at the fishing area the tide had dropped to almost nothing so we were unable to drift for Bass, we moved spots and anchored up for slack water, during this time we caught a number of Blond Rays, as the tide picked up we went drifting for Bass wit lures, the Bass fishing was not prolific but steady and as there is a bag limit of 2 Bass per angler and this had bee reached it was decided to move to the Whiting grounds as we had plenty of bait, within minuets of anchoring the first Whiting was caught this would be the only whiting caught, the remainder of the trip was the proverbial Dogfish and strap Conger, the journey home I hit the rush hour and had delays, worst being as mentioned the A3/M25 but this was only a few minuets this time.

The Womenfolk - Turnaround

 

This 1964 record was a UK only release, the song had some exposure as it was used in an advert for Kodak cameras and film, this record failed to chart, the Womenfolk would have their only US chart entry with another Malvina Reynolds song Little Boxes, for some reason Little Boxes was not issued as a single in the UK.

"Turn Around" - Eastman Kodak (youtube.com)

The Womenfolk - Turn Around - 1964 45rpm (youtube.com)

She Trinity - He Fought The Law

The fist release from She Trinity of six singles, this was one of the early all girl band that played their own instruments, none of their records made the charts. Later Pauline Moran who was the bass player became an actor and played the role of Miss Lemon in the early episodes  of Poirot.

 She Trinity - He Fought The Law (1966) (youtube.com)

Abandoned Car

On a visit to Epsom yesterday I went into the Ebbisham Car Park the abandoned Volkswagen was still there I made a note of the registration number and put it into the payment terminal, the car registration number did not appear on the list of cars in the Car Park, it costs about £139 for a weeks parking, the notice that the car has been abandoned was issued early in September, it has clocked up £1,000 of fees since then! 

The Cherryhill Trio - Fluff ( The Velvet Dragon)

 

I first came across this 1963 record on one of the Late Mark Bird's - Whacky Classics You May Have Missed CD's, these CD's are long out of production, originally there were going to be 5 CD's in the series however it grew to 20 CD's there may be 21 as one was ready for issue about the time he passed away, the series was going to be expanded to 25 CD's, the Cherryhill Trio issued a second single under the name The Hollyhill Singers, this record did not have a UK release. 

Fluff (The Velvet Dragon) - The Cherryhill Trio, 1963

Abandoned Car Epsom

A visit to the Ebbisham car park in Epsom yesterday, while searching for a vacant bay, I came across this modified Beetle, it looks like some parts have been liberated, but looks largely intact, the engine is still in place, I was tempted to put the registration into the self pay machine to see how much the parking charge would be. I hate this car park and was only using it as Madam had to go to her bank and this is the nearest car park to her bank, she now has difficulty walking any distance. I am in Epsom again on Monday as I have an eye test (my sight has suddenly deteriorated), if  the car is still there I may see how big a parking charge it has racked up. A few years ago in the Brighton Marina car park, maximum stay 4 hours, there was a car parked there of over two years.