Greetings !!

Hi & Hello Worlds....

I hope you are all doing well today ?!  It's a Saturday, here in old England...... and for want of a better word (or words) - I will can today 'Destroyer Day' !!

It's been a quiet & surprising day today !!  Being Saturday - we slept in for a while.... tho' some one (we don't know who) telephoned just after 8am, so.... that woke us a little too early for my liking !!  Anyhoo - as I type, B is here doing some house work, J is upstairs - having helped me take all the bed sheets off.  As for ME, well - she will be home in a short while, having spent the night at M's (her boyfriends)..... We have sent a text, to "warn" her...

As I mentioned - it's been a surprising day.  A little while ago, the NFH knocked on our door & asked permission to come onto our little driveway !!  Shock, horror & disbelief !!  They are cutting down a big hedge, that marks our border, but is on their side, on their land.  She wanted permission, to stand on our drive - and remove stuff........ that must of taken a lot of "humble pie" !!

For the last year, all we've had from her is abuse & 4 letter words !!  To actually, walk up our path & ask - well, I'm very surprised !!  B answered the door and said "yes" - on condition they cleared everything away & didn't leave any rubbish behind....... I think that's fair !!

So - that's part 1 of the 'Destroyer Day'.  They are destroying a really nice hedge - to put a fence, never mind.

Part 2 of 'Destroyer Day' is my writing about 2 shows, that Led Zeppelin did in Cleveland, America - on April 27th & April 28th 1977.... both of which came out on bootlegs called 'Destroyer'.  Possibly 2 of the most famous bootlegs, amongst many others, that came out back in the 1970's & 1980's.

The tracks from both shows are more or less the same - it just depends which Cd's you listen to:

 1) The Song Remains The Same
 2) Sick Again
 3) Nobody's Fault But Mine
 4) In My Time Of Dying
 5) Since I've Been Loving You
 6) No Quarter
 7) Ten Years Gone
 8) The Battle Of Evermore
 9) Going To California
10) Black Country Woman
11) Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
12) White Summer/Black Mountain Side
13) Kashmir
14) Moby Dick
15) Guitar Solo
16) Achilles Last Stand
17) Stairway To Heaven
18) Rock & Roll
19) Trampled Underfoot

I've had these shows, more or less since they first appeared on Lp's, all those years ago.  I first had a 4 Lp set, from the 28th & that - to me - is the 'Destroyer' set !!  It was, despite what others say - the first one to hit the streets.  The show from the 27th, is probably more popular - as, it came out on a soundboard tape... the second show is an audience recording.  The 27th show has come out as a 3 Lp set, a 2Cd set & also a 3 Cd set.........  I've only ever had the 28th show on 3 Cd's, apart from the original 4 Lp set..

Like the Dallas show, from March 4th 1975, it has been put out over & over...... so, it's quite easy to find, if you get chance to hear it !!  I'm not sure how many different copies I've got of these shows - but, they are all good !!  I'm lucky enough to have been given a spool tape of this show, and that is brilliant !!  I won't tell who I got it from, but it was gift from a very well known guitarist.... that copy is well good & the most complete copy of the 27th show I've ever heard !!

I keep getting asked "Where can I get" such & such bootleg.... well, just look & you will find !!  Whatever you do, don't buy bootlegs... buy the official stuff !!  There is plenty of live stuff out, by various bands - buy their official stuff...... !!  More another time.....

The music of the moment is - or are - the first 4 Procol Harum albums.  They have come out on 2 Cd's & I've put them in the machine on shuffle.  One of my favourite tracks (by them) 'A Salty Dog' is playing as I type.... a great song !!  Onwards, ever onwards !!

We're not going very far today.... we went shopping, in town, yesterday & basically got all we needed at that time.  I know we missed a few things, but they can wait until Monday now !!  I can't be fussed to go back out again, today - I struggled enough yesterday !!  I hate crowds & being the last weekend of the month (pay day for lots of people) the shops were very hectic !!  Maybe B will pop out later, I don't really know - but, I'm staying here in the house !!

I hope we will be able to head to Church, in the morning.  Health wise - I've had 2 good nights sleep, so if things stay like this, we will able to go.  I'm looking forward to it, but - if I can't make it..... well, we'll see.

We had a visitor, yesterday, from the lady who lives across the road.  I think she wanted to know why the police lady had been here the other night !!  It's Ok - she is a very nice lady & was the first person to speak to me, when we got here, back in 1998 !!

As she is a little slow in walking - she needs help to go too far - B walked back across the road with her, when she left.  She told B, she didn't realise how ill I actually am....... but, not to worry, I know they will be there for B - that makes me feel better in myself !!

Ok - the plans for today... I don't have any !!  So, I will away & find something to do !!  My thanks to all my readers, especially my Russian reader who has logged on today.... until next time...

Bye Bye