middle-aged hipster

The quietness of this blog for the past 24 hours or so is not matched by a similar quietness in my study. Indeed, the raucous environment here is one reason -- along with continuing flu-generated grottiness -- for the lack of postings.

I have, you see, invested in a new toy: a turntable that I can link up to my computer in order to make digital files, and thereby CDs, of my old LPs. On leaving the UK for the US I obviously had to get rid of most of these, but I hung on to some of the ones I was pretty certain I couldn't upgrade to CD. By now, of course, quite a few of them have made it to CD, but not all ... and anyway I've not bought all the relevant CDs. Since I'm feeling too crapola for much by way of serious work anyway, what better than to wallow in the delights of Bread Love & Dreams, Jade, Jonathan Kelly, Batdorf & Rodney, Bill Fay, Lazarus, Thomas Yates ...?

So, if you'll excuse me, I have to go listen to "The Ballad of Cursed Anna" ...