You can never have too many... & Mr Puck-tin !!

Hi again World's !!

It's a Thursday - here in the wild South-West of England !! About an hour or so ago, we had a fantastic thunder storm.... a real window shaker !! It seems to have passed now, so.. once more, the Sun is out & we're being lulled into a fake "oh it's getting better out there" type of thing !!

Anyways - I'm home alone !! B has decided she would be of better use, if she went over to the M & M's place - stripping wallpaper off some walls !! I did tell her "I'll be fine" - but..... by then.... well, moving on !!

I didn't write anything, yesterday - mainly as I felt like crap !! I kid you not..... I'm not sure what the plastic surgeon has done to my back.... but, I'm wondering if he should take up butchery, as a
new profession !! The wound is giving me all kinds of grief & - well.... I'm really pissed off with it all now !!

The last surgery - for new readers - was on Monday, of last week..... May 12th. Well - on Monday, of this week - we made the trek, down to Exeter (again) to have the wound dressed.... locals, to that area, might have heard the screams !! Nevermind.. that was Monday.

The plan was - to go to my local surgery, tomorrow, to have it re-dressed.... followed by another trip to Exeter, next Wednesday - Yep - like that was going to work !!

It got to the point, yesterday afternoon.... well - I won't go into too much gore - but, it involved blood & bandages !! So... B took me to the local hospital, where a really great Dr. took the old soaked bandages off & redressed the whole area..... tomorrow, I'll have to have it done again, mainly as it's gone the way of yesterday.... blood & bandages.... if you follow my meaning !!

How they expected - in Exeter - for the dressings, not to be needing any changes... well, that's beyond my thinking.... all I know is, I feel like I've gone thru' a needless surgery.... and..... well - I'm really passed caring now !! Well, I would be - if it didn't bloody hurt sooooo much !!

Nevermind... I'll see what the surgeon says, next week...... I just wish he had listened to me & done the whole skin flap thing - rather than his "easier method" !! At least - my way - if I was in this much pain, I could blame myself !! Oh well.....

As for the music of the moment... well, it's one of the versions of Deep Purple's "Made In Japan" album. This one - well - it's a 3 Cd thingy - taken from the 3 recordings - from which, the original album was culled.....

I'm not sure how many versions of the album there are - but.... you can never have too many !! The basic tracks - across the 3 Cd's are:

1) Highway Star
2) Smoke On The Water
3) Child In Time
4) The Mule
5) Strange Kind Of Woman
6) Lazy
7) Space Truckin'

Plus encores:

1) Black Night
2) Speed King

The 2 "encores" above - well... one is on Cd 1 & the other is on Cd 3..... for some reason... I'm not sure what - the other "encore" that featured on the 2 Cd release of the album 'Lucille' is missing ?! All very strange !! I'm guessing it was down to Cd length & everything....

If you read my words - over the last few years, you will know, I am quite keen on "The Purp's" !! It's just old fashion "Rock" and... I do enjoy their stuff - especially the "live" recordings !!

Yesterday - in the car, on the way to the hospital.... I found a 40 track Tom Petty live album, on the Mini Egg - my iPod thingy. I thought it was from his 4 Cd 'Anthology' live set - but, it turned out to be part of his Fillmore West shows, from 1997.... the tracks are:

  1) Around & Around
  2) Jammin' Me
  3) Runnin' Down A Dream
  4) Time Is On My Side
  5) call Me The Breeze
  6) Cabin Down Below
  7) Diddy Wah Diddy
  8) Slaughter On 10th Avenue
  9) Listen To Her Heart
10) I Won't Back Down
11) The Date I Had....
12) I Found My Baby
13) It Serves You Right To Suffer
14) Boogie Chillun
15) It's Good To Be King
16) Green onion
17) You are My Sunshine
18) Ain't No Sunshine
19) On The Street
20) I Want You Back Again
21) Little Maggie
22) Walls
23) Angel Dream
24) Guitar Boogie Shuffle
25) Even The Losers
26) American Girl
27) You Really Got Me
28) County Farm
29) You Wreck Me
30) Shakin' All Over
31) Mary Jane's Last Dance
32) You Don't Know How It Feels
33) I Got A Woman
34) Free Fallin'
35) Gloria
36) Bye Bye Johnny
37) Satisfaction
38) Louie Louie
39) It's All Over Now
40) Alright For Now

It was - so it it says on the label, recorded on February 7th 1997... and - it's brilliant !! It really is .... especially all of the encores, on the last disc - I should say, it's from a 3 Cd bootleg set.... Please, don't buy bootlegs - buy the official stuff instead.... as I say, there is a great 4 Cd 'live' Anthology for sale. But - this tape is really great.... we were singing along to it, driving home last night.... well good !!

Just back to the Deep Purple set.... Jon Lord - for some reason - just played part of the theme tune, to the old (well old) TV show 'Z Cars' !! It has to be from the 60's..... very strange - especially as this show is recorded in Osaka ?! I'm not 100% sure the fans would have recognized it... !! Oh well.

Ok - I must mention how happy I am, to read that our future King.... Charles the plonker..... has stood up & said, exactly what I have already said, in these pages, over the last month or so... that
Mr Puck-tin is acting like Mr Hitler, by invading parts of Ukraine !! Well done Mr Plonker - my hat goes off to you !!

Today, Mr Alexander Kramarenko - I hope I've spelt your name right, so you know who I'm talking about - is going over to our Foreign Office, because the Russian Embassy has stated that Mr Plonker's (that's Prince Charles) comment was "outrageous" !!

Yeah right...... get a grip you dumb jerks, not everybody is afraid to say what they feel, about the so called leader of the new USSR (I quote from his own words - check it out... he has said he "wants to build a new & stronger USSR.....") and his invasion of his
neighbours !! First Georgia, now Ukraine... maybe Scotland will be next.... well, Mr. Whatever you are called..... you want independence, maybe Mr Puck-tin & his troops will help you out ?!

Please keep your comments & insults coming in.... I'm only too happy to bin them !! It's called "freedom of speech" after all !! That's enough for now.... I'm sure to get shot for the above..... but, that's life !!

I have no plans for today - I wasn't expecting B to go out.... sooooo I'm stuck here, on my own, playing music, I guess it could be worse !! Oh well...

As always, I thank you all, for taking the time to log in & to read my words !! If the bullets miss - I will be back on another day... until next time...

Bye Bye