He doesn’t look like this anymore sadly but he was pretty good.
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Melt
Well the snow is on the way out, that’s for sure. It is still going to be cold, but it looks like I won’t be walking through the woods next week, which is good although I did like parts of the walk (not the uphill bits)
A walk through the woods
Walked through the local woods this morning to get to work. Whilst it wasn’t the most fun trip to work ever it was ok except for the parts where the snow came up over my knees.
Well there’s a thought
More words
Better left alone
Over the last year I’ve been trying to get in touch with people I’ve lost contact with for a number of years, in fact, some people who I haven’t been in touch with for a lot longer.
It was interesting to find that tracking people down was surprisingly easy. With sites like twitter and facebook you can find people very easily indeed. That was the simple part. The hard part was meeting, or in some cases not meeting, them again.
On the whole old friends were really happy to hear from me. However, after that it was a different story, and one that I’m not sure I really understand at all.
Words
You might be seeing a few more like this over the coming days and weeks. Just fun really.
Autumn
I took this picture while I was out yesterday. It felt truly autumnal, in fact, far more like autumn than it does today.
I like autumn. It is perhaps my favourite season. I love the leaves coming down off the trees, the fact that it starts to get colder and and that there is a sense that renewal is on the way for everything.
Some more thoughts …
I’ve been looking for a long time
Back in the 80s I used to listen to John Peel’s show. It is where many of my musical tastes were formed and a lot of the artists I first heard on his show are people I still listen to now. But there are still one or two things that I have never found. One…
Hello 2016
So, here we are in 2016. I often think it is strange that we somehow cross this imaginary boundary into a new year, but today is a day very much like yesterday in many ways and for many people. It is just a day, and yet we like to make it special, a new beginning,…
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You won’t see one of these I’ll bet
I checked the tapedeck site to see if they had one of these in the list of cassettes and they don’t, so I sent them some photos.
I have 3 of these Teac cassettes and I can remember that when I bought them that they were pretty hard to get hold of back then. Now, well I doubt that there would be many of them around any more.
I’ve only got one of the blue ones and the other two are black and not in as good condition.
Beautiful though isn’t it?
A cassette magazine from a long time ago
SFX was a cassette magazine from the 80s. I remember it well and thought it was really innovative back in the day
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When tapes go wrong
I’ve been clearing out old tapes, and when I say old I mean old. Some of the tapes are of my own music so I’ve been converting a few tracks to digital and finding songs that I’d completely forgotten about.
Sadly, one tape seems to have decided to give up and of course it had to be one which had lots of long forgotten treasure (for me anyway).
There’s only one thing for it. I’m going to have to open it up and see if I can splice the tape together, and I haven’t done that for years!
I can’t believe I missed Cassette Store Day
It was last weekend and I missed it completely. Which is a real shame for me. So, to make it up to myself I thought I’d post a few of my favourite cassette pictures.
Finding my first cassette recorder
When I was about 11 or maybe 12 I really desperately wanted a tape recorder, and for Christmas I got one. It was a fergusson and it looked like this. I found it again at a very weird museum a few weeks ago. It took me right back. I used to use it for recording…
Experimenting with little modular things
I’ve been exploring some of my tiny modular devices. Above you can see. I posted this picture a while ago on Instagram. It was a fun thing to play around with, and I think that these devices go very well together. I can see myself doing a lot more little sessions like this. I’ve been…
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I am Ashley Elsdon 