Smokey 0929 hr (Thursday 1st August 2019)

Today I get a shiny new purple camera as this is my 3,000th blip, and appropriately it is of Smokey. My first ever blip was taken in August 1960 and the fourth frame on that first roll of 127 negative film was of my first cat, Dandy, who must have been about five or six at the time. He was sprawled out on my bed with sunlight streaming in through the window. I probably hadn't realised what effect this would have on the resulting black and white image - an early lesson in photography and light.
This is the 480th blip of Smokey, my sixth cat, all different, all wonderful characters.
L.
2.8.2019 (1105 hr)

Blip #3000 (#2750 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2019 #177/265 + #067/100 Extras
Day #3415 (762 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Smokey #480
LOTD #2144 (#1985 + 159 in archived blips)

Gardens series
Old Forge series
Smokey series
Smokey's Favoured Snoozing Spots series

Taken with Pentax K-x (White) and Pentax smc P-DA 12-24mm F4.0 ED/AL (IF) lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Fairport Convention - Tale In Hard Time (recorded April-October 1968, Chelsea, London)
Fairport Convention: Ian Matthews (Iain McDonald)(vocal), Sandy Denny (harpsichord, vocal), Richard Thompson (electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar), Simon Nicol (electric guitar, electric dulcimer), Ashley Hutchings (bass), Martin Lamble (drums, percussion)
If you pick up a copy of the current Mojo, you will find with it comes a CD called Island Radicals, which documents the history of the Island Records label from its first British signing, John Martyn, up to 2010, with PJ Harvey's Let England Shake album. It's an excellent and diverse compilation that runs chronologically (curiously omitting the years 1980-2007) and gives me the excuse to include one of the selections as I played the whole disc on this day. Tale In Hard Time comes from one of my favourite ever albums, What We Did On Our Holidays. Incredibly it was just one of three groundbreaking albums the Fairports released in 1969, making lightweights of 2019's recording artistes!