Valarie Singleton - Solomon's Centipede

 

Released 1969, both sides of this record were written by Peter Sarstedt.

 I was thinking about the continuity announcers on ITV Children's TV Wally Whyton and Muriel Young, Wally Whyton had a hit record as part of the Vipers Skiffle group and released a number of records under his own name, Muriel Young like Christopher Scott appeared as a narrator on a number of Meccano Story Records, they also had a number of different hand puppets over the years starting with Pussycat Willum, the flaw with Pussy Cat Willum was he didn't have a mouth so could not speak, this was rectified on the replacement Ollie Beak and later Fred Barker both spoke,  From memory I seem to remember another Children's continuity announcer on ITV, he was always in strange cloths and had a dark secret about the Dagenham Cocoa Rooms, I think his name was Reg, I always found him rather weird.

 

Valerie Singleton - 'Solomon's Centipede' (1969)

Valarie Singleton - Jimmy Giraffe

 

The 'B' side of Valerie Singletons 1969 release, her co presenter of Blue Peter at the time Christopher Scott also appeared on record, he narrated some of the Meccano series of stories, I was once offered the complete set of Meccano records but due to storage space constrains I declined the offer. 

Valerie Singleton Jimmy Giraffe B Side 1969

August Bank Holiday Boot Sale

 

Mondays Hook Road Arena's Boot Sale was much larger than they have been lately, filling most of the field as I arrived many of the sellers were still arriving, despite being much larger than in recent years there was less interesting items, it may be a sign of the times that there were many people selling cloths and household items, I brought very little, a set of magnifying glasses that look like they came from a Mad Max movie and four packets of cable clips ( 2 packs for 50p), I did miss out on some interesting records as I had passed the stall before they were put out, one person was showing me the records he had brought, I made a mental note of some of the titles and checked to see if I had them on the music drive, I had all of them, I spent less than £10 and was home by 09.30, one of the least amounts I have spent at a boot sale in a long time.

The fishing trip booked for next Monday has been cancelled due to high winds, It's the first trip we have lost to the weather this year, the other cancelled trip was due to Health & Safety, some years we have had most of the trips cancelled due to the weather, normally I would get the cancellation email just after I had completed the shopping and was on the escalator up to the car park. 

Emperor Napoleon XIV - I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle

This is one record I never owned, I was 14 when this record was released in 1966, my elder sister liked to buy records as birthday presents, so she could listen to them, she asked me what record I would like for my birthday I said I would like 'Emperor Napoleon XIV - I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle' she then said you can't have that record its all talking, I never did get the record, at that time I was not into pop music. 

 I'm in Love with My Little Red Tricycle

Car Troubles

 My car went for its annul service and MOT last Monday, when I went to Devon in July on the journey down my car started playing up on hills you could feel it start to lose power, then an audible warning and on the dash panel "Engine Malfunction - Seek Service" and go into "Limp Mode" on some of the longer hills it would do this 4 or 5 times, my thought was water in the fuel tank, many years ago I had the problem on my Lambrettta it always manifested itself going up hills, it was an easy repair, run it until the tank was almost empty then disconnect the carburettor and drain off the remaining half pint or so of fuel and dispose of, reconnect the carburettor, close the fuel valve and refill the tank. I looked up the problem on the Internet and it gave a number of causes such as, clogged fuel line, dirty injectors, clogged diesel particulate filter. About an hour after I dropped of the car, I got a text message about the problem they had connected the car to the diagnostic computer and it came up with 2 faults 'low fuel pressure from fuel filter' and 'Low fuel pressure at injectors' the problem was the fuel filter, I'm used to the fuel filter being a small clear plastic thing with a filter paper inside, the fuel filter in question was part of the engine management system and was about £150 for the replacement part, the car runs much better now seeming to have more power, I have not yet tested it on hills yet as there are no suitable ones locally, when I last went fishing at Brighton it was a least 30 miles before the problem appeared, I have a fishing trip booked from Gosport on September 1st so I will see how it behaves then.

I will be going to the Hook Road Boot Sake tomorrow, though the now have it on both Sunday & the Bank Holiday Monday they are not as good as they used to be.

Mister Murray - Down Came The Rain

 

Released 1965, the first of two records by Mister Murray, this record was much played on Children's Favourites later Junior Choice, when I first heard this record I thought it was Harry H Corbett singing it, I have this on Hello Children Everywhere Vol 4 both on vinyl and on CD,

Down Came The Rain (Mister Murray)

Spam & One Drive

 

As my e-mail connected to this site is in the Public Domain I get a lot of Spam mail, I generally get more on my AOL account, I only keep that account going as one organisation I am a member of has never updated my e-mail to the one I replaced the AOL one with, I delete the spam mail first thing in the morning, one thing I notice is that many claim to be from McAfee, judging by the number of e-mails I get I must have almost 2,000 McAfee accounts, many years ago I brought a new Laptop, it came with McAfee Virus protection and you could load it onto all your computers, well the laptop got a virus, I ran the McAfee and it came back as no viruses found, I took it into the local computer shop, they found over 2,000 viruses and other malware, even they commented that the McAfee found none, I know which site the problems came from it was Zippy Share I did not like using the site but sometimes it was the only place I could get something I wanted, it's no longer available it closed down in March 2023 though I seemed to blocked to the UK some time before, I removed McAfee from all my PC's and installed a virus protector that worked.  

My other pet hate is One Drive, one of the first things I do with a new PC is delete One Drive, this time I did not delete it until the next day and defiantly did not use One Drive, the next day there were spam emails your One Drive is almost full if you do not pay £xx to increase the One Drive memory you will lose all you're pictures, I also check after every upgrade to see if One Drive has been reinstalled and if it has I delete it again.