With a couple of weeks off the Roadshow it's giving me chance to nip round the local record shops to see what's in the bargain-bins - today's lunchtime haul came from our Wakefield shop Wah Wah Records. "Suntan" by Stan is quite an earworm, it'll go in the summer box! Ooberman's track "Sugar Bum" among the singles too, who were signed to Graham Coxon's label "Transcopic" but even so didn't really bother the charts at the time. A fun afternoon's listening! #vinyl #retro

Reform really is flies-hanging-around-shit isn't it.

Mmmm. Was good ramen.

I think I'm going to celebrate fixing dependency hell with a bowl of ramen at the new .jp cafe in town.

In other news, two cars near work site hit black ice and ended up in the ditch. Nobody hurt thankfully, but there's all three land-based emergency services on-scene...

Dammit. Sodding backup mount ran out of disk, and now storage is expensive and I'm annoyed.

Fabulous evening with an old pal who was a DJ in the 60s and 70s, comparing notes. Fascinating to see what he'd play compared to what I play nowadays, it rarely matched - nostalgia and enduring songs didn't meet up with what was popular at the time.

Crap pic, but I'm tackling the Purple Meanie over lunch, trying to increase the torque on the turntables. It's a 1984(ish) Citronic Tamar console, 2nd-generation, with my own autocue enhancements and fixes. I've not run a signal generator through it yet but all the op-amps are replaced with low-noise ones so should be good. Fingers crossed the torque should just be a matter of balancing the motor bushes properly.