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24 years of 6music. Flippin' 'eck. 24 years at 6music. Flippin' 'eck.

I won a Cardigans album on CD in those first few months 👌
Can recall 'The Final Arrears' by Mull Historical Society getting plenty of play in those early days (must check this)

Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs

Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/

Working eject... Repair should hold for now

Connected here

Disaster strikes in #boombox land..
This delicate plastic leaver attaches to the cassette door with a simple piston to provides a damped eject. Plastic often shrinks as it ages and can crack as a result...
Trying to mend, plastic welding unsuccessful. But have fashioned a repair from some brass..

Part of a chain that includes suberb 2nd hand store 'Hard Off' 👌

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Nuthatch - older posting - Share your nuthatch photos in the comments

linktr.ee/vickyouten...

🪶🦉 #birds #wildlife #ukwildlife #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #vickyoutenphoto #nuthatch

I'm with you Mark!
Managing our cats whereabouts, food etc.... Sort of a full time job with unspecified working hours / 24hr on call I suppose. Really affects our sleep..
And we adore them of course

IOC and Fifa: "It is time to welcome Russia back into the sport family".

Chews up tapes?

Hope I've made it easier for the next person who services this maybe in 2066!

Quite close now, new take up reel tyre fitted. Plastic control knobs have been through the ultrasonic cleaner then touched up. Final calibration of speed and azimuth.
#Sony #boombox #cassette

With a tear in my eye

👆 That book was astounding!

Mid morning Hario - spot on! The cheapest and easiest way to get an amazing brew imo

... not forgetting the superb Morwenna Banks 🤔

STONEY BRIDGE!

so pleased Nigel Tufnel overcame the limitations of the instrument

A light green alien mascot with antlers and a diamond-shaped mouth and a perspex cranium through which you can see an orange pear.

Nashiro (mascot of Hita City) is an alien with a see-through cranium, showing its brain, which is a pear.

👌 Had to put that one through the Hi-Fi

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... I’m not sure if this is even possible but as somebody somewhere said “you can have clean water and you can have privatised water but you can’t have clean privatised water”.

Queen's Cross Church. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1899.
Photographed c.1966 by James Macaulay.

Our cat Shuggie often gets on top of the wardrobe just so he can sleep on 'cuddlekins'

Stereo2Go forums The best site for Walkmans and Boomboxes

This site has been invaluable, for my Walkman collection as well...
stereo2go.com
There are proper experts on there and I'm not one of them!

Mostly for my own pleasure, the challenge of fixing them and of course enjoying my tapes. Never had a decent one back in the day so making up for that! MADE IN JAPAN is what I look for and, for the most part, I only buy broken boxes. Occasionally sell on when times are tough...

Yes - that little Sanyo sounds amazing... but repairing last year nearly killed me!

They're nearly all from boot sales, junk shops and skips.

JVC Sanyo Sharp Hitachi Toshiba Panasonic Pioneer... (plus another Sony on the bench at 80%) ♥️