Morning, I hope all is well. All fine here. Although I do feel a little like I'm in hibernation. Not going out much. Cuddling the dawg. Wearing lots of knitwear, plus thermals. Kinda fighting off a cold. NOT DRINKING!!! It's a tough month. But we are 1/3 of the way through already.  

In other news I found out last night that none of the emails I have sent out in the last ten days have gone to anyone as the people who oversee my server have changed things and so all my settings for outgoing mail are wrong and my emails go nowhere. I get emails, but the ones I sent out don't actually go anywhere after they leave my inbox. This would explain why everyone has been ghosting me since Christmas. And it will look like I have been ghosting people too. 

While not moaning about emails I am slowly gearing up for 2025, I've booked Mr Vintage 5 (March 9th Mildmay Club), am sorting out artwork for two new releases and who knows what else. Oh, yes, starting another book, this time about my records. Will be ready for 2026 I reckon. My emails should be fixed by then.

As a little light relief here is an interview with Peter Handford, Oscar winning sound recordist (he actually recorded the D-Day landings) who went on to start Transacord and recorded many of those great steam train LPs. This was sent to me by Steve from The Memory Band. Thanks Steve.  

 I'm now off to swim in 3° (or slightly less looking at the frost) so I can forget about emails not working for ten minutes. Then I will go old fashioned for the rest fo the day and phone people instead of using my computer. 

Thanks for listening as always, and a very happy 2025 to you. It feels like fun already! 

Jonny

 

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