Greetings

Hi again World - if anybody is reading these words..... "Hello !!"

Well -it's another beautiful day in England... the music of the moment is Led Zeppelin (no surprises there) - 'Dazed & Confused' is on as I type, but as it's from a 16 year old tape, I'm not 100% on where it was recorded !! Probably from some live album or another... around the 1973 tour I guess.

I made up my mind I was going to index all the cds that are about this home of ours - well, the ones that belong to B & my good self - and yesterday I made a start on the 'big' set.... by that I mean the ones that are on a cd shelf unit - to my left as I type. J helped me put them all on the floor the night before last & yesterday I made a start... I finished that lot about 15 minutes ago !! I now have about 500 to a 1000 left to do, but first......

.......Well, you know when you service a car, or build something from a flat pack, you always have a nut or bolt that just ain't going to fit anywhere ? Well, I have about 30 cds that I know came out of the unit, but somehow just don't want to fit back on the thing !! No problem - they came off the shelves, they WILL go back, even if I have to force them some how or another....

It's been 'fun' tho'... finding cds I had forgotten about, or - with the benefit of hindsight - wonder why I bought them in the first place !! Oh well, life goes on......

At the moment I here alone - got the whole house to myself !! ME is out at Uni placement, B & J are somewhere between here and town. J has to go to sign on (he lost his job a month or two back) & B is taking him in.... it's ok living out in the sticks, but we only get a bus every few hours or so, which makes public transport a bit of a joke really !!

Not everybody out here in the country has the 4 x 4 or what have you - our battered old thing is a 16 year old bag of rust, but it serves a purpose !! We do get a bit p***ed off with some people who seem to think that, just because we live in the sticks, we must be rolling in money - sorry folks, before being taken ill a few years back, I was a working man !! Oh well, never mind...

For some strange reason - the TV is on..... football AGAIN !! I've no idea who is playing - I'm guessing it was left on when B went out & (to be honest) I've only just noticed !! More drugs please nurse, I'm starting to notice things - now that's a bad sign !!

Not sure if I've mentioned this before - but I've been reading a book by Peter Carey called 'True History Of The Kelly Gang' (I must of mentioned it ?)... it's a good read, hard at times to follow, but if you've ever seen the film 'Ned Kelly' - the Heath Ledger version - it's worth a look at !!

I've not many pages to go, but I've already have a follow up in the form of 'Crow Killer' by Raymond W. Thorp & Robert Bunker..... that is one of the two books the film 'Jeremiah Johnson' (the Robert Redford movie from 1972) was based on. It is less than 200 pages long, so that will not take long once I get started !!

Shocking really - such great taste in music AND I can read as well !! My old primary school teacher would be proud of me - now if only I could learn how to spell !!

Bye Bye