Inspiration

It's been a very much a read a comic between listening to music week with being rather poorly here as we move very much into the Bank Holiday weekend with this weeks Match of the Day Magazine here together with the Beano which in edition 4,200 shares a common topic.

The Bash Street Kids look at inspiration in the Holiday Club from Leah Williamson, the Lioness's star looking at when you appear to be a bit different from others, for her being a girl who like to play football was it, having self belief and putting in the hard work to make your dream, a reality.

Interestling rather than just leaving at a girls can be whatever they wish to be level, which is quite true the story flips it around to Freddy saying he loves to dance although he looks different than most dancers.

It's quite an important point that everyone has the right to be their true selves and follow what interests them when comes to hobbies and interests boys as well as girls.
 

Radio Pasts into Present

One was reminded this week of the past with a few more things emerging from Mum's room and oddly enough the Womens World Cup in football, a game she was an avid fan and uniquely for the period even played with her brother, now deceased, and the boys he was best friends with.

Back then if you wanted to find out what was on the radio or television you bought a weekly listings magazine you looked up the day and all then then broadcast stations.

Many had very vivid colour front covers and it's fair to say I can recall all of these and more and although today people use on screen guides, internet listings and the like you can still get the Radio Times just with less unique regional editions.

Mum did like the radio, especially local radio and when I was younger I did listen a lot to it at home and in the dorm so again you'd look up the listings for shows at this time of year the details of the evenings Proms concerts on Radio Three of the works performed that night.

Strangly enough I did like shows like Sing Something Simple, Charlie Chesters Soapbox and Richard Baker's 100 Best Tunes apart from much of output of Radio Three for classical and Radio One for current pop music

Apart from having a big mains only stereo with a record player, I did have a variety of portable radios cos the beauty of Radio was you could take it anywhere and be drawn into the programming and in the main they were fairly traditional sets.

Recently I did buy a new one but actually its pedigree is almost as old as me for being based on a nineteen seventies  set by Roberts called the Rambler which was a a relatively short wooden sided portable with a carrying handle designed to give a similar quality as their bigger sets but easier to pack with you.

Very dorm friendly I might add.

The current one keeps much of the looks from the outside but its internal gubbins are very modern which means from the outside a traditional tuning scale that had a pointer that moved showing what you were listing to no longer exists.

Instead with have a display that shows the station name.

When off it shows the time - and the display can be dimmed - and on VHF/FM while tuning the frequency.

It has just VHF/FM where most national and local stations are to be found and VHF band III Digital Audio Broadcasting (aka Dab) where many national stations that aren't on VHF/FM such as BBC Radio Six are.

You can have up to ten presets per waveband.

It has a single speaker but the headphone output is stereo as is the Aux input and Blue Tooth and while there is a version with two speakers I felt the extra 2.3 cms in length wasn't at typical distances going to give much stereo effect given how close each speaker was.

It runs of C cells or mains via a detachable mains unit.

There's just something simple and transporting back into the past of just pressing that on/off button and listening to its full sound.

Replacements for Autumn

 It's rather a warm start to the day, quite a bit better in some respects from when I was away and this week I'm looking more towards Autumn and assessing the stuff I got as clothes obviously do wear over time and so you do need to replace things from time to time.

According to my notes the last pair of trainers I bought was in the Autumn of 2011, as we were coming out of Covid and not long after going away for the first time since lockdown to The Lakes as my older pair had become somewhat worn in that period not being helped by my walking gait being affected by having a week left side, wearing one side rather more than the other especially around the heels.

My current pair are starting to show signs of that wear although they've done a lot better than much of my footwear past and present on that score and so I got a pair of Adidas Juniors Tensaur Sport 2.0 CF K Hook & Loop School Shoes in black as they look hard wearing and fasten with velcro.

Winter for me always brings challenges with gripping in the season of ice and snow before the twist and turns of our pavements that making walking hard going are taken into account fo starting the season with a brand new pair of trainers with excelent grip is a must.

Given the odd pair of these traditional argyle patterned socks have lost one  of a pair in the wash over the years I bought a pack of three as being made from wool, they do keep your legs and feet very warm in winter whatever the length of your short trousers.

That was the week that was

 

Well okay it is Friday today so just what is going on here as the forum members may of noticed I was away for a short while last week and as this was typed I'd only just come back?

The first thing is of course sorting out the washing as being active you certainly get through rather a lot which if it didn't aquire a grass stain or two, might of picked up things from what we were making apart obviously from needing freshing up which as good as stuff like Lynx deodorent  is at keeping damp spots from forming, you still add a bit of a smell after a day to your t shirts and what nots.

Then there is dealing with any post that may of come which with me included two cds one being a recent speciality issue of a Bill Wither's album and one's Commando, Beano and Phoenix comics as I have subscriptions to them.

There should be coming on Thursday some lp record inner sleeves as I had noticed as getting getting through a number to the point restocking made sense and given I could get 24 delivery I got that done late Wednesday as there's no sense in ordering anything big if you aren't going to be home.

Normal service will be resumed on the blogs next week but that's where we're this week.