15/11/16 - Living where we live means we get to have cacti and succulents in abundance in our garden. I even have a stubborn thorn in my finger as I type. Their flowers are always spectacular.
15/11/16 - I must've received an order of 7" singles in the post. This, Ruby Andrews' original version of Casanova, is a great little record. Ruby Andrews is one of those singers who only seem to get some love from the Northern scene, largely because of Just Loving You.
I picked up a load of Jimmy Castor Bunch LPs in the mid-80s in a second hand record shop and have always found his acid-funk work enthralling, even though a good 50% of his LPs are just unlistenable MOR cover versions.
This single used to get spun at acid jazz dos. It's a cracker.
I'd forgotten how much I liked Stephan Bodzin's Liebe Ist album. I very rarely pay CDs or digital files any more, so this has just slipped off my radar.
This photo was taken under the Largs Pier Jetty. The decay of the timber is very attractive.
06/11/16 - Picked up at Gepps Cross Market, which used to take place on the drive-in cinema site. All closed down now, to feed the insatiable housing beast. Another loss for people who like to browse random shite spread out on a tarpaulin.
Also, another record that's barely worth a dollar.
05/11/16 - Snakes terrify me. As I was leaving the scene there was a man nudging it with his bicycle wheel, whilst his girlfriend implored him not to. A little vignette showing why women live longer than men.
29/10/16 - A nice enough picture of a building and ghost sign in the port. I've no idea where, precisely, but I'm going to have a look for this next time I'm round that way.
It's where the antique shop is on Commercial & Buttler Street. I remember cos I park down there when I go to porthole and it's one of my favourite buildings.
28/10/16 - One of the most irksome things about getting older is the way you sprout hair. Nose, eyebrows, ears. This nose hair trimmer is still knocking about the bathroom cabinet, largely unused.
Also, in a lot of the pics around this time, focus (or the lack of it, more precisely) doesn't seem to be something I'm particularly interested in.
23/10/16 - This is a classy bit of soul, which I had bought after hearing the great Dr Bob Jones play it on his show. Turns out there's a mis-labelled version of this out there (which I found out to my cost). The one you want has the word Century scribbled out on the label presumably because they'd all been pressed with the wrong name on, or they found out there was another group with the same name, after the labels had been printed.
I really like writing on labels (WOL) of records I buy, even though it knocks value off. Seeing someone's name on there always makes me wonder who they were and what happened to them.
23/10/16 - This was posted at the height of the avo scare, where young people's inability to afford a mortgage was attributed to their love of smashed avo on toast.
Avocados are one of those things that I buy and 'save' until their mouldy. I can't seem to break out of this behaviour pattern.
18/10/16 - Another Tuesday, another show. Towards the end of the show, I was really running out of things to take photos of. Sadly, no record of this show exists, so you'll have to imagine it.
16/10/16 -Port Adelaide Fishermans Wharf markets is now closed, pending demolition, which is a real shame, because it was somewhere you could pick up a bargain, if your luck was in. Like this Ashford & Simpson LP and Jimmy Castor Bunch 7". A dollar apiece.
14/10/16 - This was at Hindmarsh Stadium, where we were watching Adelaide United get beaten at home 2-1 by Western Sydney Wanderers (had to look this up, as I've no recollection of the game). Anyway, Charlotte had gone to get some chips and I'd asked for lots of tomato sauce, and that is what I got.
14/10/16 - A picture of the nice blue sky and the top branches of the olive tree in our back yard. The Adelaide sky is so frequently bright blue and cloudless that you really miss it if there's a dull spell.
Ruud
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