A nice tune for a lovely summer’s evening. A great vocal from Keith Blake/Prince Allah with some mad earthquake/explosion samples.
And for the dub side, the word heavy doesn’t even describe it. The late King Tubby was on top form with this one. Crank up that bass, annoy the neighbours (er only if it’s before 10pm as we wouldn’t want to instigate any asbo’s) and big up the King!
Big shout to our long time friend The Rhythm Doctor who’s playing a funk/jazz/reggae/disco set at the all-vinyl night Crates Session at Brilliant Corners, 470 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AE this saturday from 7-12 and it’s Free. How good is that!
I’m not sure if he’ll actually be playing this one but here’s a tune to get you in the mood!
Here’s last night’s episode of The Dirt on Fab Radio International featuring our very own “Sounds from the south.” Have a listen to the show as there’s a lot of mad stuff on it including news that the Peckham Parakeet has a northern relative!
The show is available as a podcast here and “Sounds” appears at 14.40 minutes in. Thanks very much again to Simon, Ricky and Paul at The Dirt for having us! For episode one of the new format of the show have a listen here and “sounds” appears in the first few minutes if you’re interested. The Dirt, a gardening programme like no other, indeed!
Pic above: Two “playful” Peckham Parakeets in Vic Godard’s back garden trying to dismantle the bird feeder.
The International Space Station is on an orbit over the UK for viewing at a reasonable time this month and do remember it has the VPS (Vegetable Production System a.k.a “Veg-01”) on board, growing lettuces, pumpkins, carrots, runner beans and purple sprouting broccoli 200 miles above the earth. How good is that?
We all know there hasn’t been a slug launched into space as yet, so everything should be okay on that count (carrot fly are well out of the equation too) but the big question is, does a runner bean-cane tripod stay vertical when out of the earth’s atmosphere? I’ve left a couple of messages on the NASA answer machine asking them but they are not getting back to me just yet.
If you fancy a gander at the big tin can in space, just buy yourself a cheap compass off ebay (£2 ish) and tap in your location at the “Spot the ISS” site here which will tell you what time to look, in what direction and what angle to tilt your head up at. And to see where it is at the present moment have a look here.
A word to the wise though, don’t even bother with any sightings that are less than a minute as it takes about that long to locate the thing. Big up the ISS!
A big thanks to Simon, Ricky and Paul at The Dirt (“a gardening show like no other“) on Fab Radio International for having our “sounds from the south” feature on the show. The Dirt is now available as a podcast on their web page here and also on i-tunes. Great stuff!
Have a listen tomorrow night live on Radio Fab International from 6-8pm if you fancy listening to a great gardening show with a difference, and if all goes well the second offering of “sounds from the south” will be aired around 6.20-6.30pm.
And don’t be fooled by the picture of the “cuddly bird” above, that’s no cuddly bird, that’s the Peckham Parakeet, and it could have your arm off if it wanted to. All will be revealed on tomorrow night’s “sounds from the south.”
Thanks to Renato from Dig This Nursery for reminding us about the forthcoming Tomato Harvest Bonanza in a fortnight’s time on Saturday 9th August in New Cross.
Don’t be expecting to strip down topless and throw gone-off tomatoes at each other (as they do in Spain) as that sort of thing is frowned upon in New Cross. But do expect a free day of fun, live folk music, kid’s stuff and Tomatoes galore! Any advice you need about the Tomato plant do ask there as they’ll be someone who’d bound to know!
Thanks to our good friend Paul W for sending us this pic of a whopping courgette (aka zucchini) he saw outside a house on his way to work earlier this week in South London.
He wasn’t sure if it was an offering of the usual “take me” variety or the owners showing off in a “my zucchini is bigger than your zucchini” style!
Talking of courgettes, has anyone any good recipes using the old zucchini as I feel a glut coming on!
A big shout to Phil Harmony for putting us in touch with Jackie and Robert from the Prince Valley Guesthouse (and the adjoining coffee farm there too) in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and thanks to them for getting back to us.
We’ll be featuring a piece on the guest house in the very near future and tonight looking at the pictures we have of it, this plant has really knocked us out. The two pictures taken by them show a plant called a Night Blooming Cereus, and what a plant! The flower only blooms at night, very fragrant and is only a very short lived affair. More on the guest house and their coffee farm very soon!
It’s blimmin’ warm here in London, not much sunshine but a lot of heat. Put your feet up and relax, all that weeding and watering can action can wait! A tune from Bushman from a good few years ago and still sounding fresh!
A big thanks to Si Diamond and all at The Dirt “a gardening show like no other” on Radio Fab International for having us on the show as from tomorrow night as a weekly feature. Listen out for “Sounds from the South” as part of the new format. The show’s going to be good, “something is coming” indeed!
We at weeds will be definitely cracking open a bottle of a major supermarket’s finest and tuning in tomorrow night from 6-8pm, I mean what’s the alternative, Deal or No Deal or Antiques Roadshow? Best of luck to The Dirt!
Weeds up to me knees 