What could I possibly mean? Don't mention the R word! Well, thats certainly not radio, it is Rugby of course!
Having lived in England for 7 years now, the Wales Vs England Rugby match is a big affair in the "Read" household, with Wales winning the 6 Six nations it was a great day to be Welsh.
Things on the radio front have been very up and down of late, and although we haven't enjoyed the needle bending conditions of early September 2012, there have been quite a few fellow DXers managing to recieve new signals, the answer really is to keep plugging away listening. As usual I will post a full list of my TA MW logs on my blog at the end of the month.
As you may be aware in past post, family film nights have becoming quite a regular affair, we recently watched a film "battleship"over 4 school nights, generally in 30 to 45 minutes a night. I have to say, that I love it when the whole family spends and shares a film together.
We have now on to the action movies at the moment, and Terminator 1,2 and 3 has been viewed, my lads loved them, I had to laugh....My oldest Son said to myself the day after watching Terminator 2, "Dad.. I think Arnold Swarchenegger is the best actor in the world", I chuckled and told him to keep that thought to himself! Tomorrow it's back to musicials, a film that I'm not sure if I am going to like "Rock Of Ages", I worry, as I grew up during the 1980's Hair Metal Period, so I'm am expecting some classic's to be murdered, I just hope it's not as bad as "Mama Mia".
You may have noticed that it's been a while, since my last blog, well that been because I been thinking of doing something different.... Anyone who know's myself, will be aware that I have been a music lover all my life, and I have amassed a pretty large collection of music of the years, so listening to music has always been a big part of my life.
It is for that reason alone, I have decided to share my passion with yourself, as from this point in time I will be posting a monthly music download named "Retro Nouveau".
In short it will be a selection of old and new songs from many years of listening. The Musical Podcast will be roughly a one hour long, and will feature many different styles and genres of music. I am hoping that it will perhaps help lead you to you discover a new artist, so whatever you age, give it a go!
Can I suggest you listen to the music first, then download the track listing after, that way it's a surprise.
Simply just click on this link to download Retro Nouveau
And for the track listing Retro Nouveau Track Listing
I realised I could have done this via a service called "Cloudmix" that also runs on Facebook, but I simply prefer to be in total control, sharing music is a personal thing for myself, so I'm not so keen on going global with facebook.
Before I sign off tonight, if you enjoy any of the music played, and would like to hear more, just leave a comment on this blog.
73's
Damien
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Like A Sponge
It's funny, when your older. And in my case, it's easy to take simple things for granted. As you may have read in previous blogs, my wife and I have been getting my two children into musicals.
We watched "West Side Story" and couple of weeks ago, and I commented that both my children enjoyed it. What surprised myself, that some two weeks on, my lads have been singing songs from "West Side Story" around the house, we have had the finger clicking to the "When Your A Jet..."
Last week we showed them "Hairspray", my word...they loved it!, my youngest son has played it over and over....."Good Morning Baltimore!"
This leads me to last Sunday, we watched a normal kids based filmed, Walt Disneys "John Carter", fifthteen minutes in, my youngest says "When are they going to Sing!! lol.
It's really made me realise that, kids minds are like sponges, and it's easy to take these small things for granted. The good news, I have plenty of musicals up my sleeve for them, up next is another monster hit "Grease".
I recently had a weeks break from MW TA listening, for my own sanity really, but you will be pleased to know, I am back on the horse now. Like all hobbies, I find you need to step back from time to time.
I also found this out when I used to play the drums, something I haven't mentioned before in my blog. I used to play the drums for 20 years, based around Newport.
It's something I do miss, however I reached a point in my life when my family were more important to me, and sadly moving to a different part of Wales, travelling up and down the M4 corridor just to practice and not giging enough, resulted in me leaving my long time band "The Rob Flectcher Band"
I did try to few adverts for bands, but nothing ever came about, so in the end the drums and cymbals were sold off to pay some outstanding bills. At the time, I know some of my mates couldn't quite believe it, but life moves on, and I have had some fantastic memories of great gigs, and helping with song writing and producing the band demo's (Thats for another day)
For a change today, I'm going to be the star! Todays music/video is a live video of myself on the drums over ten years ago at Bristol, with a track called "Who's to Blame"
Well, I hope it wasn't to painful if you decided to take a listen!
Before I sign off here is this months MW TA logs for March 2012
73's
Damien
We watched "West Side Story" and couple of weeks ago, and I commented that both my children enjoyed it. What surprised myself, that some two weeks on, my lads have been singing songs from "West Side Story" around the house, we have had the finger clicking to the "When Your A Jet..."
Last week we showed them "Hairspray", my word...they loved it!, my youngest son has played it over and over....."Good Morning Baltimore!"
This leads me to last Sunday, we watched a normal kids based filmed, Walt Disneys "John Carter", fifthteen minutes in, my youngest says "When are they going to Sing!! lol.
It's really made me realise that, kids minds are like sponges, and it's easy to take these small things for granted. The good news, I have plenty of musicals up my sleeve for them, up next is another monster hit "Grease".
I recently had a weeks break from MW TA listening, for my own sanity really, but you will be pleased to know, I am back on the horse now. Like all hobbies, I find you need to step back from time to time.
I also found this out when I used to play the drums, something I haven't mentioned before in my blog. I used to play the drums for 20 years, based around Newport.
It's something I do miss, however I reached a point in my life when my family were more important to me, and sadly moving to a different part of Wales, travelling up and down the M4 corridor just to practice and not giging enough, resulted in me leaving my long time band "The Rob Flectcher Band"
I did try to few adverts for bands, but nothing ever came about, so in the end the drums and cymbals were sold off to pay some outstanding bills. At the time, I know some of my mates couldn't quite believe it, but life moves on, and I have had some fantastic memories of great gigs, and helping with song writing and producing the band demo's (Thats for another day)
Well, I hope it wasn't to painful if you decided to take a listen!
Before I sign off here is this months MW TA logs for March 2012
73's
Damien
590 00.35 VOCM, St Johns, ID after weather 323 11/02 DER
930 01.31 CFBC, St Johns, Back to Back ,ID “93..CFBC” 222 11/02 DER
950 05.59 CKNB, Cambleton, NB, ID on the hour 222 24/02 DER
1010 07.02 CFRB,Toronto, ID “News Talk 10 10” 222 11/02 DER
1020 07.00 WURN,Kendall, FL. Very Weak ID On Hour,
Spanish Chat 111 08/02 DER
1130 01.01 WBBR,New York, Bloomberg ID, Sports PX 333 11/02 DER
1140 07.00 WQBA,Miami, FL ID on hour 222 04/02 DER
1140 01.04 CBC-1, Sydney,NS ID after news,and PX ID 222 11/02 DER
1180 06.00 Radio Rebelde,Cuba. Usual hourly ID with big organ
theme,USB 111 24/02 DER
1190 05.30 WLIB, New York, ID good signal, QRM at my QTH from
1215Khz 311 26/02 DER
1250 07.00 CHSM, Steinbach,MB. Very weak ID on hour 111 06/02 DER
1290 07.00 WJNO, West Palm Beach, ID On Hour 232 08/02 DER
1310 01.00 CIWW, Ottawa. ID band on the hour “This is CIWW”
111 11/02 DER
1320 07.02 WLQY, Hollywood FL, Managed to get ID,live help of
Skywaves 111 16/02 DER
1320 06.02 YVMP, Radio Apolo, Turemo Venezuela, Jingle On the Hour 222 23/02 DER
1330 04.01 WRCA, Waltham, ML, ID just past the hour
LSB 211 26/02 DER
1360 07.03 WMOB, Mobile,AL Really good signal, ID on the hour 322 04/02 DER
1360 06.06 WDRC,Hartford. ID after weather 212 07/02 DER
1380 07.19 WABH,Bath, NY, ID during Back to back Country
Music 111 04/02 DER
1390 06.00 WEGP,Presque Isle,ME. ID on Hour 211 12/02 DER
1400 06.02 CBG,Gander NL, “CBC News” 222 12/02 DER
1430 07.01 WENE,Endicott,NY
Sports Talk 111 11/02 DER
1440 02.57 WRED, Westbrook,ME Sports ID as “The Big Jam” a nightmare to ID 223 16/02
DER
1470 07.00 WWNN, Pompano Beach,FL
Amazing signal strength S9! 333 08/02 DER
1500 07.00 WFED, Washington, NY ID on hour 222 04/02 DER
1510 07.59 WUFC, Boston, just caught the end of religious
program 222 01/02 DER
1510 07.33 WLAC,Nashville,TN
ID before sports news 222 04/02 DER
1520 08.00 WWKB, Buffulo. ID on hour before “NBC News” 222 01/02 DER
1520 06.30 WVOZ, Radio Voz,PTR, Mixing with WWKB 211 23/02 DER
1530 07.00 WCKY, Cininatti,OH. ID afer the “Overcomer” show 212 04/02 DER
1540 07.00 KXEL, Waterloo, IA .ID on hour 211 04/02 DER
1540 07.00 CHIN,Toronto,ON, Mixing with KXEL,reference to
Toronti news 111 04/02 DER
1550 06.00 Radio Rebelde,Cuba. Usual hourly ID with big organ
theme,USB 111 23/02 DER
1560 07.00 WQEW,Radio Disney, New York, ID on hour 222 04/02 DER
1610 07.00 University Network, Caribbean Beacon, Usual
Religious output 333 25/02 DER
1620 07.00 Radio Rebelde,Cuba. Usual hourly ID with big organ
theme 333 01/02 DER
1630 07.00 WRDW, Augusta, GA ID on the hour just before news 111 03/02 DER
1630 07.00 KCJJ, Iowa City,IA Good Signal ID on hour 333 04/02 DER
1640 07.00 WTNI, Biloxi, MS. Super Bowl Highlights 111 04/02 DER
1650 06.00 CJRS, Montreal,ON ID on hour “Radio Shalom” ID 222 01/02 DER
1660 07.30 KRZI, Waco TX. Advert for ESPN Radio 222 31/01 DER
1660 01.01 WGIT, Camuy,PR Phone in show in SS 111 02/01 DER
1660 06.00 WBCN, Charlotte,NC
ID on the hour 111 05/02 DER
1660 07.00 WCNZ,Marco Island, ID “The Avenue” Mixing
with others 111 13/02 DER
1670 07.04 CJEU, Gatineau, QC. ID as “Radio Enfant” Children
singing songs 333 01/02 DER
1670 07.00 WPLA, Drybranch,GA
ID on hour Sports 111 06/02 DER
1680 07.30 KRJO, Monroe LA, Carrying “Bloomberg News” Good
Signal 333 31/01 DER
1680 06.01 WOKB, Winter Gardens, ID on the hour 222 03/02 DER
1690 07.01 WMLB, Avondale Estate,GA. Brief ID on hour 211 23/02 DER
1690 07.00 WPTX, Lexington Park, MD ID was “the News station WPTX” 212 04/02 DER
1690 07.00 CHTO, Toronto, ON.
222 04/02 DER
1700 07.33 WJCC, Miami Springs . SS phone in. 222 01/02 DER
1700 07.31 KVNS, Brownsville,TX
Ad’s For Fox Sports 111 11/02 DER
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Lazy Weekend
Well it seems it's all quiet, here at Read Towers, we didn't have the usual routine of helping the kids with the homework, as it's half term. And we have also been enjoying the sunshine....yes remember that word :)
My football side Newport County won 3-1 away Vs Woking..happy days!
I have been getting to listen to lots of music, Steve Vai latest CD is really good,I have only played it once, but it's pretty good.
Went to Sainburys in Kidderminster today, we ended up going to the cafe upstairs. Not bad food, I had a Beef Lasagne (Not Horse),chips and Garlic Bread, Latte and a slice of Coffee and Walnut cake, not the best meal ever, but certainly better than a McDonalds!
Once we arrived home,did a bit more house work,washing up and hoovering, then settled down with the family to watch the rest of "West Side Story" on Blu ray. I couldn't beleive that the film is 52 years old!, and the story of Racism is just the same,even now, although things are not as bad as they where. Although it's a bit dated,my kids enjoyed it, with my oldest saying he found it moving and emotional. I can't wait for him to see 1973 version "Jesus Christ Superstar", it's due to be released on Blu ray soon, and I for one can't wait, it's my all time favourite musicial.
So until JCS turns up, it is back to normal films with the kids, Real Steel will be next.
The Radio front has been up and down on MW, I managed a few new ones, 1320Khz WLQY Hollywood,FL is one that springs to mind.
Tried to get my Climax DTV300 run via SDR software, didn't have any sucess. I will have to probably ask someone for help,or just sit on it for a bit. The good news is the Climax is working, I had a quick play with the bundled software and tested the DAB and FM, so it works, but the software is plain awful.
Ok, thats all for now, I will leave you with a Video from one of my favourite country bands at the moment. They are called the Small Town Pistols and are Canadian based, they where part of "The Wilkinsons", anyway they have a new CD out next week, and they never get plugged in the UK, so have a listen, Amanda Wilkinson has an amazing voice, and she is the real deal live! This track is called "Colour Blind" Enjoy!
73'
Damien
My football side Newport County won 3-1 away Vs Woking..happy days!
I have been getting to listen to lots of music, Steve Vai latest CD is really good,I have only played it once, but it's pretty good.
Went to Sainburys in Kidderminster today, we ended up going to the cafe upstairs. Not bad food, I had a Beef Lasagne (Not Horse),chips and Garlic Bread, Latte and a slice of Coffee and Walnut cake, not the best meal ever, but certainly better than a McDonalds!
Once we arrived home,did a bit more house work,washing up and hoovering, then settled down with the family to watch the rest of "West Side Story" on Blu ray. I couldn't beleive that the film is 52 years old!, and the story of Racism is just the same,even now, although things are not as bad as they where. Although it's a bit dated,my kids enjoyed it, with my oldest saying he found it moving and emotional. I can't wait for him to see 1973 version "Jesus Christ Superstar", it's due to be released on Blu ray soon, and I for one can't wait, it's my all time favourite musicial.
So until JCS turns up, it is back to normal films with the kids, Real Steel will be next.
The Radio front has been up and down on MW, I managed a few new ones, 1320Khz WLQY Hollywood,FL is one that springs to mind.
Tried to get my Climax DTV300 run via SDR software, didn't have any sucess. I will have to probably ask someone for help,or just sit on it for a bit. The good news is the Climax is working, I had a quick play with the bundled software and tested the DAB and FM, so it works, but the software is plain awful.
73'
Damien
Monday, 11 February 2013
Wreck It Ralph
So..my wife and I and children went to the movies yesterday to watch Disney's latest offering,"Wreck It Ralph".
I really didn't know what to expect, as the film is the childrens Pixar type of movie. I must confess, I really enjoyed it, it's a bit of a mad concept, but in a nutshell, the film is based in a Games Arcade, where there are old games machines and modern ones. Wreck it Ralph lives in the retro machine, and isn't happy with his character, so he leaves his game console, and defects to a different one.
I will stop at this point, as you probably get the idea, and I won't want to spoil it for you, anyway if you have kids, go check it out, at least the story line is original.
I also visted "Rebens" in Food Hall in Merry Hill, I had my usual "Chilli Chicken Noodies", and I also had there "Chilli Chicken Curry"......WHAT MAN!! This food should come with a warning, tastes fantastic, but blows your head off, I started to feel like "Adam Richmond" from "Man Vs Food" at one point, still I can report that Man won!
The TA MW conditions are still pretty good, with a few of the East Coast Stations showing back up at around 01.00UTC last night, by 03.00UTC they had become quite weak.
I promised a track from the New Martha Wainwright CD "Come Home To Mama", today I offer you a track called "Radio Star", been warned it's a strange and arty video!
73' Catch You Again
Damien
I really didn't know what to expect, as the film is the childrens Pixar type of movie. I must confess, I really enjoyed it, it's a bit of a mad concept, but in a nutshell, the film is based in a Games Arcade, where there are old games machines and modern ones. Wreck it Ralph lives in the retro machine, and isn't happy with his character, so he leaves his game console, and defects to a different one.
I will stop at this point, as you probably get the idea, and I won't want to spoil it for you, anyway if you have kids, go check it out, at least the story line is original.
I also visted "Rebens" in Food Hall in Merry Hill, I had my usual "Chilli Chicken Noodies", and I also had there "Chilli Chicken Curry"......WHAT MAN!! This food should come with a warning, tastes fantastic, but blows your head off, I started to feel like "Adam Richmond" from "Man Vs Food" at one point, still I can report that Man won!
The TA MW conditions are still pretty good, with a few of the East Coast Stations showing back up at around 01.00UTC last night, by 03.00UTC they had become quite weak.
I promised a track from the New Martha Wainwright CD "Come Home To Mama", today I offer you a track called "Radio Star", been warned it's a strange and arty video!
73' Catch You Again
Damien
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Fish Pie
My wife made a superb Fish Pie tonight, top notch stuff, too good for the Captain's Table!
So what's been happening? Well, the radio front is still pretty good on MW, I have only just catched up on three days worth of overnight recordings, with 2 out of 3 giving me some more 1st timers.
Managed to have a quick listen to "Newport City Radio", to my football team I support, Newport County. We drew 2-2 against Tamworth today, and still near the top, we have just got to stop leaking goals, the top of the Blue Square Premier (Old Confrence) is so tight on points, any of the top 7 teams are within winning distance, and thats the problem with this league, every side is capable of beating the other side,with no side running away with the league, still at least it keeps it exciting!
We plan to go to the Odeon Cinema tomorrow, in what the locals call "Merry Hell" due to how packed out it can become, I will let you know I we all get on. No doubt I will be having some legendary "Chilli Chicken Noodles" from the food hall.
OK, I guess it's nearly bedtime, as it's 1'o clock in the morning! I have had the New Paul Gilbert CD on this week it's called Vibrato. Trying to find a nice live performance of Paul is a bit of a task on You Tube, as they mostly sound too loud and distorted,very bootleg like quality. However I have managed to find a link of a superb Instrumental Track called "Fuzz Guitar". If you haven't heard of Paul Gilbert, he is probably one of the best hard rock guitarist out there, and up with the legends of Vai,Satrani, and in my view Eddie Van Halen.
Now for my last track....Another Guitarist, named "Jan Cyrka", he used to be in a Heavy Metal band named "Zodiac Mindwarp" during the late 1980's, but he is more famous now for writing TV theme tunes...Honestly, he even wrote the them for the "Jeremy Kyle Show" ! Hey, but don't let put you off, Jan is a truely amazing player, with an fantastic tone,and feeling in his playing. The track I bring you is from Jan's second solo album "Sprit", it called "Brief Encounter", watch Jan play it live on his You Tube channel, I may also add this is probably one of my all time favourite guitar tracks...Enjoy!
Will catch you all soon
73's
Damien
So what's been happening? Well, the radio front is still pretty good on MW, I have only just catched up on three days worth of overnight recordings, with 2 out of 3 giving me some more 1st timers.
Managed to have a quick listen to "Newport City Radio", to my football team I support, Newport County. We drew 2-2 against Tamworth today, and still near the top, we have just got to stop leaking goals, the top of the Blue Square Premier (Old Confrence) is so tight on points, any of the top 7 teams are within winning distance, and thats the problem with this league, every side is capable of beating the other side,with no side running away with the league, still at least it keeps it exciting!
We plan to go to the Odeon Cinema tomorrow, in what the locals call "Merry Hell" due to how packed out it can become, I will let you know I we all get on. No doubt I will be having some legendary "Chilli Chicken Noodles" from the food hall.
OK, I guess it's nearly bedtime, as it's 1'o clock in the morning! I have had the New Paul Gilbert CD on this week it's called Vibrato. Trying to find a nice live performance of Paul is a bit of a task on You Tube, as they mostly sound too loud and distorted,very bootleg like quality. However I have managed to find a link of a superb Instrumental Track called "Fuzz Guitar". If you haven't heard of Paul Gilbert, he is probably one of the best hard rock guitarist out there, and up with the legends of Vai,Satrani, and in my view Eddie Van Halen.
Now for my last track....Another Guitarist, named "Jan Cyrka", he used to be in a Heavy Metal band named "Zodiac Mindwarp" during the late 1980's, but he is more famous now for writing TV theme tunes...Honestly, he even wrote the them for the "Jeremy Kyle Show" ! Hey, but don't let put you off, Jan is a truely amazing player, with an fantastic tone,and feeling in his playing. The track I bring you is from Jan's second solo album "Sprit", it called "Brief Encounter", watch Jan play it live on his You Tube channel, I may also add this is probably one of my all time favourite guitar tracks...Enjoy!
Will catch you all soon
73's
Damien
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Not Enough Time
Yes Folks, life seems to be running at 200Mph at the moment, however as promised here is a small update.
We finally had a hot oven meal tonight, Yes... the cooker is working. The repair man came around a 7.30am this morning, and to my amazement, the cooker wouldn't trip the electrics! Although this could happen again, at least I now know a work around to get it working again.
So tonight's tea was oven chips, lightly dusted Cod, and Pasta and Sauce.
The blog has taken a bit of a backseat, due the ever improving Medium Wave Conditions, my USA logs are starting to look pretty good. My Climax DTV300 USB Dongle has turned up, I haven't even had a chance to plug it in yet!
Talking of Blogs, I have added some links to the Blogs I read go check them out, hopefully someone in Blogland will add myself? I also plan to add a few of my favourite websites soon.
Ok, before I sign off, here is a promised track from one of my favorite albums of 2012 by "Rufus Wainwright" called "Out Of the Game", taken from the album with the same name. I thought you could capture Rufus Live, although official video for this song has Helena Bonham Carter in it, so I have added that as well.
Enjoy and Catch you again soon (Promise!)
73's
Damien
We finally had a hot oven meal tonight, Yes... the cooker is working. The repair man came around a 7.30am this morning, and to my amazement, the cooker wouldn't trip the electrics! Although this could happen again, at least I now know a work around to get it working again.
So tonight's tea was oven chips, lightly dusted Cod, and Pasta and Sauce.
The blog has taken a bit of a backseat, due the ever improving Medium Wave Conditions, my USA logs are starting to look pretty good. My Climax DTV300 USB Dongle has turned up, I haven't even had a chance to plug it in yet!
Talking of Blogs, I have added some links to the Blogs I read go check them out, hopefully someone in Blogland will add myself? I also plan to add a few of my favourite websites soon.
Ok, before I sign off, here is a promised track from one of my favorite albums of 2012 by "Rufus Wainwright" called "Out Of the Game", taken from the album with the same name. I thought you could capture Rufus Live, although official video for this song has Helena Bonham Carter in it, so I have added that as well.
Enjoy and Catch you again soon (Promise!)
Live Version
Official Video
73's
Damien
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Take Away Challenge
Something I forgot to mention on my last blog, is we are currently on day 3 of having no electric cooker!
On Thursday night, just towards me finishing off our evening tea (Yellow Thai Curry and Noodles), the cooker tripped the main trip switches, and won't turn back on without tripping out again!
So it was Take Away on Friday (Chicken Sagwala), Take Away on Saturday (Pizza) and thankfully no takeaway today, although we did finish last nights Pizza off for dinner.
Not all has been lost, my wife dusted off our Toastie Maker tonight, and I had a cracking toastie, with Chesse, Tomatoes,Ham and Chilli and Lime Chicken Bits.....It was quality, I hope the cooker is repaired soon.
We watched a good old fashioned black and white movie this afternoon staring the actress Joan Crawford in the 1946 movie called "Humoresque",it also stars John Garfield. We really enjoyed the movie, and to be honest the first hour was gripping, but we found that the last third of the movie went a bit sticky sweet hollywood, certainly it would make a great contender for a remake.
If you haven't seen the film, here is a quick 2 minute music montage, the playing of the piano and volin is of the highest standard.
Now, here are last night DX's logs
1630 07.00 WRDW, Augusta, GA ID on the hour just before news 111 03/02 DER
As usual I will close with a bit of music, hear is a live video via You Tube of a Scotish Folk Band named "Box Club", I discovered them on BBC Alba, there album, was one of my Christmas Present from Santa. I don't even know if the band are still going? But the video really does capture the band rocking out, excellent musicianship, I only discovered the video this morning, so I hope you enjoy it.
Back to work tomorrow, I hope to feature something from Martha Wainwrights new album, and if I remember, a track from one of my favourite CD's of 2012 by Rufus Wainwright, and as you would expect, the normal random going on's in my world.
73's
Damien
On Thursday night, just towards me finishing off our evening tea (Yellow Thai Curry and Noodles), the cooker tripped the main trip switches, and won't turn back on without tripping out again!
So it was Take Away on Friday (Chicken Sagwala), Take Away on Saturday (Pizza) and thankfully no takeaway today, although we did finish last nights Pizza off for dinner.
Not all has been lost, my wife dusted off our Toastie Maker tonight, and I had a cracking toastie, with Chesse, Tomatoes,Ham and Chilli and Lime Chicken Bits.....It was quality, I hope the cooker is repaired soon.
We watched a good old fashioned black and white movie this afternoon staring the actress Joan Crawford in the 1946 movie called "Humoresque",it also stars John Garfield. We really enjoyed the movie, and to be honest the first hour was gripping, but we found that the last third of the movie went a bit sticky sweet hollywood, certainly it would make a great contender for a remake.
If you haven't seen the film, here is a quick 2 minute music montage, the playing of the piano and volin is of the highest standard.
Now, here are last night DX's logs
1630 07.00 WRDW, Augusta, GA ID on the hour just before news 111 03/02 DER
1680 06.01 WOKB, Winter Gardens, ID on the hour 222 03/02 DER
As usual I will close with a bit of music, hear is a live video via You Tube of a Scotish Folk Band named "Box Club", I discovered them on BBC Alba, there album, was one of my Christmas Present from Santa. I don't even know if the band are still going? But the video really does capture the band rocking out, excellent musicianship, I only discovered the video this morning, so I hope you enjoy it.
Back to work tomorrow, I hope to feature something from Martha Wainwrights new album, and if I remember, a track from one of my favourite CD's of 2012 by Rufus Wainwright, and as you would expect, the normal random going on's in my world.
73's
Damien
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