This photo is on the General Gallery page but it cannot be shown in full width which my friend Ralph liked when I was able to do when I was using a complex theme and plugins. Today I installed a new update to WordPress which allows me to have a full width post layout for … Read more
This was recorded from an LP that I bought in the 1970’s. I recorded it as 24bit 192kHz and the file size was 3.6GB, and from that I saved an MP3 file of only 48MB. Before NBN a 48MB file would have taken so long to upload to this site that I wouldn’t have attempted … Read more
In the days when hifi stereo long playing vinyl records were the ultimate when matched with a good cartridge, tone arm, turntable, amplifier and speakers, and parallel tone arms were arguably better, the Bette Midler album simply titled Bette Midler came out in 1973 and I bought a copy from John Stagg at the Regent … Read more
I had not intended to make a post about the Trooping this year, but on Saturday, 9 June, I looked at the time and noted that the Trooping the Colour event might still be taking place in London. When I checked The Telegraph (UK) online, there was an item to see the event live, so … Read more
I first heard of and listened to Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triumphale by Hector Berlioz when the LP shown below was sent to me in 1969 as a member of the World Record Club. I was enthralled by the work on my first hearing, and nearly 50 years later it still excites and moves me when I … Read more
A year has gone past since my last post, and because of that I was going to skip posting a video of Trooping the Colour this year. But this afternoon, just out of interest I had a look at the video this year, and I was so impressed that I decided to post it. The … Read more