Cheers to Mike & Julia from just outside the fair city of Coventry for letting us know that the frost covers are out and fine looking ones they are too.
It’s been a bit funny when it comes to weather here in SE23. We had a frost the other week and then last weekend it was quite mild. I’m sure we seen some blossom on a couple of trees in the week too, it’s so crazy is this current weather. Cheers for the picture and we look forward to more of your great photographs next year!
Below is the audio from KFAM (Shortwave radio fun for all the family!) that was broadcast on Saturday November 30th 2024 and repeated on Sunday December 1st 2024 via the services of Shortwave Gold. It’s a excellent show as usual from the Imaginary Stations crew featuring lots of family related tunes and features the above mix/tracklistings from One Deck Pete at 19.07 minutes in. Tune in and become the part of the family!
Above is a wonderful sign seen in the Gents in Ladywell Fields last week. For some daft reason we thought it was a message to all council gardeners about washing their steellies in the sink (rather than football boots). Also coincidently thinking about boots, something came to our minds yesterday that we’ve never thought about for years, dubbin a product to protect and soften leather. Remember that?
A big Happy Thanksgiving to all of our good radio/music/gardening mates from across the pond including DJ Frederick, Justin Patrick Moore, Thomas Witherspoon, Dr Strangedub and Nic Greene and anyone else we’ve forgotten about.
Earlier today we heard from Justin who sent us a picture above straight from the garden of some Japanese Giant Red Mustard Greens that look great. “These were volunteers from last year. Harvesting today for our meal.” Great stuff Justin!
And also we heard from DJ Frederick who informed us of something musical and gardening related from a duo called Woo, one we’ve never heard about even though they’ve been around from a long long time! Cheers for that Fred, that is one interesting duo who’ve produced a wealth of chilled and dubby tunes.
Hope you’re all having a great day!
Imaginary Stations have a show called KFAM (Radio fun for all the family!) on Saturday November 30th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and repeated on Sunday December 1st 2024 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and it’s also broadcast at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz via the services of Shortwave Gold. Expect all sorts of family related music, tunes about Dads (not “My Old Man’s a Dustman”), Mum’s (Not “Mother of mine”) and loads more. It’s all relative innit?
At 19 minutes in there’s A Family Friendly Mix from One Deck Pete with tunes from DJ Daddy Riff, Múm, Dad Bod Dub and The Sons of Silence.
So gather around the shortwave radio at the alloted time and feel a part of something and revel “in the theatre of our imagination” with KFAM. If you’ve no shortwave radio tune in here.
Cheers to Rich R in the Lake District for sending us this great pic of the moon above Bassenthwaite Lake not that far from where he lives. Wonderful stuff!
We’re in Storm Bert at the moment here in SE23, it’s windy and very dour when you outside. It’s always good on days like this to have something to cheer us up so a big thanks to Debby H for sending us more cosmos pictures taken this week. We must rememember it is late November and as Debby wrote with the attached pictures “Come snow and frost, the cosmos plants struggle on valiantly!” and she’s right. Cheers for that Debby!
On the stereo we have this playing in the background to cheer us up despite the bad weather. It’s a bit of an off kilter bit of dub by the great Bjørn Torske called Dub Vendors (the B side to the single Disco Members from 2000.)
NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH • NEWS FLASH
Tomorrow morning (Wednesday 20th November 2024) our good friend The Rhythm Doctor will appear on Gilles Peterson’s show on Worldwide FM at 11am UK time. Tune in live here.
Cheers to Debby H for letting us know that she’s now brought in most of the tender plants from her garden what with the weather starting to get a lot colder now. In the above picture, on the left are all of the tender plants from outside and on the right, a view of the rack with house plants on it. As Debby said “Most people use stools to eat at their breakfast bar. We have given our stools over to the larger plants!” Brilliant!
Above are the two strelitzias, which she said are not that overly keen on direct sunlight when outdoors, “Strangely they like being outside, but they don’t like full sun. We have to keep them in the shade or the leaves go brown and crispy.” The actual plants were grown from seed as well and we do love the moveable circular platforms that the pots are standing on. It’s a great idea for moving plants around to follow the sun. Our mate in Berlin, Phil Harmony uses the same method with all his plants on a platform so he can wheel them about his patio.
Was feeling in need of a cheer up this week so we went to the theatre to see that feelgood classic Waiting for Godot...(!) Yesterday we got into conversation with someone and asked “If Beckett was into punk what would have been his favourite band?” (Samuel Beckett does look a bit on the punk tip in some photographs). We came to the conclusion it may have been Wire. What do you reckon? Would he have liked the Pork Dukes, Sham 69 or The Stranglers? Answers on the back of a postcard (preferably one with a pink haired mohican punk on it) please.
Weeds up to me knees 