Good Saturday morning to you all!
The first ladybird I’ve seen this year, greeting me as I step out of the house, signs of summer approaching, yaay! 😀
Rich and I are out having a falafel wrap this weekend, reflecting on the goings on of the week.
I LOOVE Falafel! I mean i’m Arabian so this cuisine is in my blood and soul so what else to expect. Also I’m not a fizzy drink person but I have an exception, San Pellegrino. I love this Italian drink, especially the Lemonata one (best lemonade ever) and also the Melograno (Pomegranate). It’s not overly sweet, like the usual drinks you get, but more aromatic and the taste feels more natural.
I love it here as the people in the stalls are so nice. This market is one of those places where you walk past, say hello and smile at certain people in the stalls. We’re regulars here so I think they’ve started recognizing us. I love places like that, especially in recent days, I cherish this interaction between people more and more as it feels like it’s getting scarce.
I’ve got music on the mind right now and I’m itching to get onto the Amiga with Soundtracker Pro and the Polyend tracker to write a track. That feeling of something inside you trying to get out in the form of music or artwork, I’ve got that!
Speaking of artwork, I went to an art group this week with Rich’s parents (I’m so thankful that they love art! And they’re really good at it too). I’m warming back into it all again as it’s been a few years since I haven’t painted anything. Though I came back into it with a new medium, oil pastels and really creamy ones. I didn’t expect to take such a liking to them as I have, but there you go. Painting with oils will always be my first love, but here’s an oil pastel painting. It’s a recreation of a coloured pencil drawing I did in my childhood.
I’ll start talking about artwork a little later on once I get the art section of my website sorted. But for the time being, I’ll just to show what I did this week:
Anyway, back to the market. We went around the market after our meal and spent some time at this record stall.
Previously, not so long ago, I had posted this on twitter:
And the first thing I see when we go to the market… Spooky or what :-O
It just felt like the good old days, around 1995-ish when I’d spend a Saturday afternoon in an old record shop just going through records, mostly looking for Madonna records and other 80’s stuff.
I’ve always loved the 80’s. Being a regular I remember the guy who’s shop it was, Stuart. He would almost expect me to come every Saturday. I went with my brother once and Stuart let us go into the back room where it was just packed full of records, we spent nearly the entire day there looking through them. I still didn’t find the record I was after, but found lots of others.
Anyway, flash back to present day, I got lost in a 90s daydream for a moment then 🙂
I’ve also started filming the set of vintage audio related videos. One of them is Rich’s beautiful Aiwa deck which had an issue with speed and the motor. I’m very nervous repairing other people’s precious equipment. This beautiful deck is expensive as it’s a three head tape deck and a freakin’ good one. But I did it! Yay! It’s actually on par with my Aiwa. Mine is just a newer version of it but his is in silver and therefore much nicer looking. I personally always prefer the vintage silver look instead of black.
Anyway, as I said, I managed to solve the issue and fix it. I will not say too much as there’s a video about it upcoming. But it works great now and both of us are so excited about it. Rich has had this deck for two years, it went faulty a couple of weeks after he got it and has been faulty since. So to him it’s almost like he’s only just got it now. Now I’m excited about recording a tape on it and using it’s fancy calibration.
Message to Rich: “OooOOoo look at you now, all fancy with your flashy calibration and flickering LEDs”
I uploaded a video just yesterday about the Amiga Kickstart ROM switcher and talked about the people who argue about fan direction. I must say I’m enjoying the fact people are making fan jokes and puns in the comment section, it gave me a laugh 😀
Hahahah! I love you guys!
Thank you! 😀
Check out the video here if you didn’t catch it yesterday:
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