Hello, I hope all is groovy.

It's certainly colder this week and nature is doing weird things in the local park. Yes, Autumn is well and truly here. Coats are out, scalves at the ready.

As a result of this very natural occurance, I have fished out a superb and quite bananas album for todays #50pFriday treat. And it really is a treat. This is Marais And Miranda, a couple of motivated educating troubadors who made lots of records for children, and no one told them to stop. Maybe no one was listening. They also worked with Joe Meek which is a bid odd too. This is one of their LPs, all about nature. You can learn how fish swim, how trees grow, that sort of thing. Full of joy, unpredictablity and facts this really is quite something. I think we did the Space Songs LP from the same series by Tom Glazer and dottie Dottie Evans a while back. This is slightly more mad and joyous. It can be found here. If you have children I suggest you try it out on them. You may all end up laughing together. They may end up crying.

You may also be interested to hear that a Tubby Hayes doc is on the way. People have worked tirelessley and with a budget of about 6p to make it over the last couple of years, more news will follow but here is a trailer. While talking jazz I'd better mention that shortly after last week's mailing one of the interviewees on the Tubby Hayes trailer emailed me to say that Mrs Coleridge Goode was dead, so I couldn't send her flowers. Well it was a nice thought.

I went to Dagenham yesterday and picked up the last of the Sea Fantasy vinyl and Galactic Nightmare LPs. This will be your last chance.

And finally. anyone who reads this regular email will be aware that I have just moved. Yesterday I bumped into the neighbour opposite. He used to work in the record shop here in N16. We had a chat. We talked about the local prostitutes who can be spotted late at night walking the street in this neck of Hackney. He says they often have sex in his front garden. He made a song about it. And a video. It is here. 

On that note, I'd better run

Thanks for listening

J