A change for the months end

 The  end of the month which generally means awaytime which it must be said I am somewhat needing at the minute as much as I try to avoid projecting that around when things don't always go to plan.

Sometimes it's more that what you might of got isn't as it should be or you're left wondering how something can be listed as being in one condition are turn out to be very different in much worser way.

Anyway  this view of the Knoll at Arnside is something I just love with Morecombe Bay in the foreground so that and more should really help.

In case anyone happens to thing they know what if any my politics might be then I'll say that as a rule I don't bring them on to the blog, the odd piece on Current Affairs aside and as far as things on the forum go then I don't and between both of us moderators go, we don't want politics on their as it just gets in way of why we have it.

Certainly I've no interest in pushing any particular point of view nor do I care about which way any and all of you may lean politically if any and having voted for candidates of all three main parties at different times I'm hardly an extremist!

Those things are and do remain with you unless you talk face to face or via messaging to each other on  the forum and that is your own business, not mine.

Just a few things to arrive before I'm off.

July round up

The heat left us, which was no bad thing although here in the West Midlands we have been put on drought orders as I was beginning to feel I had been well baked with heatstroke.

We're almost finished when it comes to completing those Japanese Mini lp style cds of the Beatles with the very last one ordered and due here within a week with all the others having been checked over on arrival so that 2015/6 project is now done.

The final announcements in the Analogue Productions 75 years audiophile series have been announced although some titles are still scheduled to ship being later than first announced so the series finishes with 80 lps nearly all 45 rpm editions for the highest possible quality.

Connected with that attempt to deal with the backlog of some 43 super audio cd issues of these titles has been agreed as the plant that makes them was closed for over two months and as far as I'm aware there's only two in the world meeting everybodys  needs when it comes to cutting and pressing them.

As I've a few on pre-order still that's a relief.

Come september there will be some four modern classical lps issued which I have preorders for  as there are few new releases and most re-releases tend to be older analogue era titles.

The week that was

Phew it's a warm one today as I catch up after being out this week as part of the project we're competing is moving towards completion some nine years on which is great to finally see as they come in a bit at a time.

Being out was good although it was starting to get a bit unbearable later on with the sun being very intense so needing reapply suncream and battling with the great Seagull waiting for your ice cream but fortunately not my my fish and chips as I had them indoors.

They were most tasty as was my coconut ice I bought from a sweet shop.

This very day elsewhere we mark the scouting blogs 2,000th post not that you can ever take the eternal cub scout of of me.

Rubber Soul

Week has been cooler after the great heatwave of Monday and in preparation for the arrival in the last in a series books covering the life and times of the Beatles albums, I've been reaquianting myself with the cd portion of their albums here covering as the do a series of box albums (The Mono box, Capitol Albums Volumes 1&2, EP set) loose U.S. albums discs and a bespoke stereo box I assembled of 1987 original cds in stereo and Japan 2014-17 mini lp issues where titles were only release on cd originally in mono.

One that got missed off was the Japan 2017 remastered version of the 1986 remixed Rubber Soul that upsets purists but as the stereo original isn't that great with extreme seperation that one had remained in its rather brash sounding original UK cd form so I recently got a deleted copy in mint condition.

Part of the reason is that mini lp presentation, holding feels like a record rather than a tri-fold digipak and also the sound is fuller that takes some of the cold 80's digital feel from it (the mono cd set version has the original stereo mix as a bonus).

I feel it was worth it in the way with the more flawed remix of the stereo Help it just doesn't so I keep a copy of the original as a reference about.