Quit everything , and start again over 50?

another_casualty

While I was tinkering with the broadband, I had Bob Dylan on the tv in the background.Tedious or what ?!? Thankfully , I now have wifi working and am listening to the Canadian rock station again .Happy days

dreaming

another_casualty wrote: »

While I was tinkering with the broadband, I had Bob Dylan on the tv in the background.Tedious or what ?!? Thankfully , I now have wifi working and am listening to the Canadian rock station again .Happy days

What??? Dylan tedious? Wash your mouth out sir!!!!



Have to say I was quite the Dylan fan when I was younger and still am partial to a bit of electric folk. I think I got into it because my older brother and sister were both "mods". I wasn't allowed to talk to the "rocker" families where I lived, plus I was the only one from my area to go to a grammar school. So I went down the folk music route. Unfortunately we had no record player when I was younger and hardly any money to spare for records, so most of my listening was via steam radio:rotfl:but I do have quite a lot of stuff on my ipod. I also have quite a bit of jazz and country/blues too, plus tamla motown/soul. Not so much the Canadian rockers although I did buy American Woman by The Guess Who in 1970. Does that count?


What have you got planned today AC? I am going to delve under my bed to haul out the Christmas boxes. Each year I seem to get rid of more and more tinselly things. In this bungalow not only is storage limited but there is nowhere really to put a tree up. Plus I hate the "clutter" of loads of ornaments etc. so will just keep my favourites.
Goes off singing "for the times they are achay-hange-ing". Cat is glaring at me wondering why I am strangling one of his friends :rotfl:

another_casualty

dreaming wrote: »

What??? Dylan tedious? Wash your mouth out sir!!!!



Have to say I was quite the Dylan fan when I was younger and still am partial to a bit of electric folk. I think I got into it because my older brother and sister were both "mods". I wasn't allowed to talk to the "rocker" families where I lived, plus I was the only one from my area to go to a grammar school. So I went down the folk music route. Unfortunately we had no record player when I was younger and hardly any money to spare for records, so most of my listening was via steam radio:rotfl:but I do have quite a lot of stuff on my ipod. I also have quite a bit of jazz and country/blues too, plus tamla motown/soul. Not so much the Canadian rockers although I did buy American Woman by The Guess Who in 1970. Does that count?


What have you got planned today AC? I am going to delve under my bed to haul out the Christmas boxes. Each year I seem to get rid of more and more tinselly things. In this bungalow not only is storage limited but there is nowhere really to put a tree up. Plus I hate the "clutter" of loads of ornaments etc. so will just keep my favourites.
Goes off singing "for the times they are achay-hange-ing". Cat is glaring at me wondering why I am strangling one of his friends :rotfl:

Actually ,with Dylan I could just about put a single album out of his songs(my choice) ,and bin the rest.:) He is a genius tho
The programme was showing his influences from before I was born ,and that was soul destroying
I'm a headbanger ,who loves ambient music with a bit of satriani
Yes I'm unstable
Off to see friend and pick up scary mail

lessonlearned

Dylan was/is a warrior poet....a voice for a generation. Ok a gravelly non musical voice admittedly but an important one none the less. His poems set to music are pure genius.

A voice for the working class, for youth and for freedom. He paved the way for people like Martin Luther King - his songs became anthems to the civil rights struggle.

He's up there with the other the great 60s poets, wordsmiths, and visionaries such as Lennon and Bowie.

Without them there would be no Canadian rockers. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants. .

Wash your mouth out with soap indeed.

One of my first boyfriends Was a dead ringer for Dylan. I was the envy of the 5th form.:rotfl:

Yep Christmas prep starts today. I have now bought all the gifts, mainly online this year - such a civilised way to shop, no traffic jams, no hunting for a parking space, no battling through the crowds, no ghastly Christmas music. Just me, the sofa, my iPad, and a g&t.

Have just started watching Westworld so a nice evening lolling about catching up with the next couple of episodes. Might watch a soppy Christmas DVD whilst writing Christmas cards.

But first some yoga moves.......

dreaming

Right, with the aid of some very strange "yoga moves" I have managed to get the 2 plastic crates of Christmas from under the bed. There was also a whole warren of dust bunnies so cue lots of sneezing - cat climbs off bed and walks off in disgust at being disturbed. Why have I got about 3 packs of Christmas serviettes? Who even uses serviettes (as my DD has just said - "doesn't everyone just use kitchen roll?"). I have made a rule (which will be ignored) that serviettes must be used at every meal over Christmas and NY. And candles, which must also be lit. I feel another trip to the charity shop is going to happen.
I have done a mix of online and real shopping this year. I do like the convenience of online but am fearful that we are losing our town centres other than for betting/phone/nail/pound shops (no more serviette shopping).
Hope AC's mail isn't too scary. Right, must see if I can get a photo of the cat wearing some tinsel (I won't, I know, but I try every year).

lessonlearned

Don't get me started on the parlous state of our High Streets ......I despair.

It's because they are so bad that I've been driven to the internet.

At the risk of sounding like Miss Goody Two Shoes I do try to shop locally whenever I can......farmers markets, craft fairs, small independent retailers.

TBH. I would much prefer to spend my money within the local community and support local businesses. But......it's getting increasingly difficult. I have to hunt them out.

Our council has other ideas......it is squeezing out the locals with exorbitant rents and high business rates. Only the big chain multiples can afford to open up shop.

I have tried renting a stall in one of my local closed in market halls and I have looked at small shop units for my antique dealing/bric a brac business.......crazy prices.

ANd it's not just in the city, the same is happening in the suburbs, betting shops, charity shops abound, nail bars, tanning salons, etc are proliferating. In some areas the butchers, bakers, greengrocers are long gone.

A quick rule of thumb .......when the betting shops and charity shops move in its time to move out.

dreaming

I'm afraid our town is going downhill fast, although we are supposed to have a new "leisure" complex being built soon (multi-screen cinema/bars/restaurants etc.), and we still have Marks and Spencers (for now) - the largest shop is probably Primark. Unfortunately because we are midway between 2 or 3 larger cities it is hard even to attract the big chains. We have a lovely market square which used to be full to bursting on at least 4 or 5 days a week but even on a Saturday is no more than one third covered with stalls (and they tend to be more phone stalls and bag stalls). I have posted only this week elsewhere on MSE that despite the council giving us 2 hours free parking I can't actually find enough shops to spend 2 hours looking around even doing Christmas shopping. I don't actually like shopping that much but it is sad to see a once thriving town centre look so.........well, sad!
You can see I have virtually given up on sorting Christmas decorations - got waylaid by the Guardian crosswords.

lessonlearned

Me too.....I just can't be bothered with Christmas cards today. :rotfl:

Mind I have cleaned the oven and blitzed the kitchen today so not a total write off.

Yes it is sad what's happening to our town centres. Many of them are just slowly dying.

candygirl

AC, I also watched the the Dylan programme, n no way can he ever be described as tedious:eek: He is a totql genius, even though he's never embraced the whole superstar BS.I've seen him live 4 times, n he's amazing
Anyway lol, rant over

another_casualty

Okay ..
2 issues :
1) Pra group ..current balance £6,718.05.
My offer of £2,850.00 was( obviously )rejected.
They would accept £5374.44 (80%)
Original client :Barclays bank
They have sent me a form to fill in ..means testing everything !
They want to know what other loans I have etc.
So , where do I go from here?

I was thinking of contacting Payplan again: this time asking them what is the best settlement figure I can get ,and go with that .

Still waiting to hear from the others .

2) Landlady gives me a dyson to use . It could be me, but it is worse than useless . With a normal vacuum cleaner , if you want to tip the handle back , you just gently press a pedal down the bottom and you just vacuum the carpet.
It has too many attachments . I gave up . Will check instructions tomorrow or even later, but may well get my own anyway as I'll need one for my new place . She said last week' I've got an old dyson I'll bring it round.
Yesterday , I received instructions in the post .
I may tell her tomorrow to cover myself .
Oh, in the bathroom there are various insects ..daddy long legs ..and I saw something on the floor that looks like a cross between a caterpillar and a silverfish. Cockroach??
Oh and there's a scratch mark on the fridge door . It's too close to the kitchen door . Don't know if I did it or not . The fridge is new condition.
Oh well ..:(