After the last post we were doing a little bit of research that took us to the Trilogy Tapes blog which is a great read so have a butchers at it here. That led us to the post about their all-time sly and robbie fave Baltimore which we’d forgotten how good it is! RIP Robbie Shakespeare.
It’s looks like the cold weather is about to hit SE23 tonight, minus 4 or what? We suggest whacking the heating up and chilling out with the mix below recommended to us by our good friend Marc B.
It’s a very tripped out hour from Biscuit (Good Morning Tapes) for the Twin Womb radio show on Noods Radio (Bristol) from December last year. God knows what you’d call it but once you immerse yourself into it it’s serious stuff. One for the headphones crew!
More on Good Morning Tapes here and on Noods Radio (who have a plethora of great shows) here.
Merry Christmas to all of our friends near and far and we wish you all a great festive season and a grand new year. We hope you have a great growing season next year, that all your veg and flowers do swimmingly well and your compost heap rots down well and gives you some great organic matter.
We were going to stick up the Mikey Dread “Dread at the Controls” live on JBC Radio recording from December 1978 as usual but just found some completely different show recordings with some excellent footage too. They’re a new one to us and there’s a few of them as well.
Have a great day today, keep safe and away from the endless Dad’s Army reruns and remember this is the only day you can officially have a glass of Bailey’s and some Cadbury’s Roses before lunchtime without people thinking you’re odd.
We’ve been hearing this record for many months as a “sign on” tune for Sugar B‘s show on 4tuneFM and aways wanted to know what it was called. And lo and behold we heard it this morning on Vintage Obscure Radio one of our favourite shows at the moment. It’s Willie Lindo with Midnight. Tune in for more suprises here.
We gave the lawn its final cut of the year yesterday. It’s the second week in November and the grass is still growing strong. Hopefully giving the lawn the last run in with the mower so late in the year will make a it a little easier when the flymo comes back out next year.
We’ll still do the old council mowing trick of “two cuts in one” in the spring. We go over the lawn with the mover blades on the highest setting (giving it less of a cut). Then give it a quick rake over (even thought you may have a grass catcher on the mower) and then go over it again with the mower blade one notch lower. It takes longer but saves less effort on the blades. And can you believe the cosmos is also still going…
Well it’s coming to the end of the gardening season so it’s been a time for tidying up. The best job we did this year has to be relining that pond. It was a pain at the time but once it was done there was no turning back. The fish and the plants seemed happier and we’ve even had frogs taking part in a romantic evening swim and lots of tiny frogs migrating out of the pond to the rugged area around it. That’s all got to be good!
We’ve taken the tomato plants out of the raised beds and stuck in some garlic and onions (and an old stick of celery to see if it will grow) and we’ve a lot of unripened toms sitting on the kitchen windowsill our favourite method of ripening the green fruit. We could have gone for the banana method but we’ve no bananas. Here’s a couple of ripening tricks here and how they work.
We’ve also put some metal netting/grid type things on the top of the surface to stop the pests. The most recent ones to the garden are the pigeons as we caught them red handed at the brussel sprouts tops earlier. And we thought it was the slugs! We really have to think about some netting as we wonder was it them at the cardoons as well?
And we tidied up the bed at the side, took out the corn plants that had been pilfered by rogue squirrels and now working our way down to the sunflowers. We may actually keep the stalks of the big ones and use them for support for the sweet peas or beans or something.
So if you can get some time in now for a tidy up it will save you having to do so when the weather gets colder/wetter. Oh yes, we heard on the countryfile weather forecast on Sunday there could be a frost towards the end of the week so keep them peeled. Better safe than sorry!
As heard on today’s Rhythm Doctor’s Waiting Room on IDA Radio (Tallinn) (from 8am-11am UK time every Monday) here’s a well chilled and dubby classic from a few years ago and very much a favourite here!
Also a related tune from the great Lee Perry (RIP) also heard on the same show a few weeks previously. Tunes!
And while we’re there, let’s not forget this one…
Weeds up to me knees 