End of month round up

We are actually catching up and almost caught up  after the weekends easter continuation theme, just getting together and having a fun, rather sunny time together which helped given some of things I presently have on my mind.

Just typically I get back only to find visitors during my absence had broken the toilet handle mechanism so parts had to be ordered and it repaired which isn't what you want to hear after a lengthy train journey!

Comics were running a bit slow but this weeks Beano, Phoenix and monthy AdventureBox Plus have now arrived to read out of doors in the sun with lemonade just like I used to do when I was much younger.

Pix credit W-T-O@UR

There was chocolate to be had while away such as small creme aggs, decorated small milk chocolate ones, a bar of small easter eggs and yes I have finished my main easter eggs here, looking rather like these two.

Well, I'm still a young boy at heart!

Keeping things real?

 Recent international current affairs have had many lows over the last few months and it poses questions around the "dick whittington" story of coming to America and becoming President when you weigh up just how much endorsements and money a serious candidate needs in 2025.

We have Prime Ministers as our Head of State is a King or Queen and seriously less than .o5% of us have a hope heck of being in line for that but you can come to the UK, recieve a state education and be Prime Minister.

Isn't that more achieveable?

The languages of apology I can be taught

As a reader of this blog, you will have realized I'm by no means  perfect having gotten into situations that I shouldn't and a good part of what it is about is helping me change those habits of a lifetime in part by the establishment of clear rules for me to learn to live more by.

 

The other side to this is teaching me what to to put things right in real time so I assume appropriate responsibility for my own actions where in the past I've ever shrugged my shoulders or attempted to play a card - usually a disability card to exempt myself from the standards expected of others.

It helps when people hold me to account so I am as responsible as I am actually capable of disabilities aside so I learn to conform to your standards and expectations.

What next for The Beatles U.S.vinyl reissues?

We are approaching Easter so there is some preparation for that here and I have been continuing on with sorting some duplicate copies out and straighting some of the storage out so it's easier to finding things and is straight.

Over at a music forum, a pretty busy one actually, follow last years release of six (plus one exclusive to the boxed edition) of a series of classic mainly American beatles album from 1964 marking how that year and the "British Invasion" impacted america talk has moved to what about the other albums.

A basic fact in so far as their catalogue goes is after 1967, any UK albums were released in same form as in the U.K. in the States so there are less varients so there are limits to how how any reissue series can go with those albums being available anyway new.

Three 1965 U.S. albums are potential candidates, June 1965's Beatles VI (That's Six if you don't do roman numerals!) that featured the number 1 single Eight Day's A Week, Yes It Is (the "B" side of Ticket To Ride) and two tracks record originally for this album alone.

In the U.K. Help! was issued in September 1965 and had seven film songs and seven others on the second side while in the U.S. Capitol issued it in  gatefold sleeve with instrumentals from the film.

That would have collector appeal.

Finally Rubber Soul emerged at the end of the year but while it shared the same title as the U.K. edition, the U.S. version only uses ten songs of the fourteen and adds two more folky songs previously issued in the U.K. on that second side of Help! that it is held changes the feel of the album and some do prefer.

1966 saw two albums, Yesterday and Today, enjoyable mixture of singles held back from U.S. versions of Help! and Rubber Soul such as Yesterday, a number 1 single in September 1965 and with a highly controversial initial cover (the so-called "Butcher Cover") and Revolver that was just like the U.K. except it missed three tracks issued on Yesterday and Today.

I feel good arguments can be made for all the 1965 albums as they do offer something different to the now standardized U.K. catalogue especially on vinyl which we've not had since the late 1980's but Revolver is just the UK version minus three tracks.

You might be nostalgic for it but in the racks would you choose it?

For extra albums to me the only clear cut option is the 1970 originally U.S. only Hey Jude compilation for its cover and being the first time many of these singles had been available on a U.S. album in stereo.

End of month thoughts

 

Well it may be the start of a new month but in some respects it does rather feel more like finishing off various projects and playing catch up here not least for being away across the weekend.

For one thing I did find my abilities to think very much on my feet rather helpful as two trains were cancelled that I planned to travel on and take decisive action proved themselves most useful.

A delayed item, see last weeks post, finally arrived as that didn't get diverted away from Heathrow Airport and was stuck in the backlog, arriving yesterday morning and a recorded ordered a couple of weeks ago should be here today.

We did gain a new member at the forum who did pose the question of this business of dressing like we did is a kink and really unless you bring things from that world into it really no as you are just being that person you feel, you may be re-enacting things from then you enjoyed presenting as he did back then or possibly going back to that point in time mentally.

People of course can and do hold all manner of opinions but the thing about points is everybody's got one and it certainly would never be first time someone tried to say something isn't what you know you do.

I like the feel of just being back in that world, having some responsibility certainly but without the weight of adult concerns and obligations weigning down on me and when with those ewho are doing that "adult" stuff it feels very comfortable, even perhaps natural to me personally.

Who knows what this month might bring?