Sells Green (Tuesday 1st November 2022)

A new month, a new budget. I did a circular shopping drive, taking in Chippenham, Melksham and Devizes, replenishing supplies for home and garden. Although November it was still mild and autumnal. I stopped on Spout Lane with a Meal Deal picnic lunch and sat on a bench seat on the towpath. I could hear Canada geese calling from the next field, where they were sitting on the grass in large numbers, and I saw some mallards fly over. I may have seen a swan in the far distance by the swing bridge, but if so it had gone when I sauntered up to the bridge later.

L.
Tuesday 1.11.2022 (1906 hr)

Blip #3761 (#3511 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #196/265 + #085/100 Extras
Day #4604 (1102 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2903 (#2743 + 160 in archived blips)

Sells Green series
Canals series
Kennet and Avon Canal series
Landscape series
Outdoor Places I Have Sat In series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Sigma AF 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro HSM lens

A Visit to Sells Green, 1 November 2022 (Flickr album of // photos)(Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Beatles - Love You To (recorded 11 April 1966, Abbey Road; remixed 2022 by Giles Martin and Sam Okell)
Beatles: George Harrison (ld vcl, gtr, el gtr, sitar), Paul McCartney (har vcl), Ringo Starr (tambourine) with Anil Bhagwat (tabla) and unnamed members of North London Asian Music Circle (sitar, tambura)
It seems that when George Harrison's mother was expecting his birth she was in the habit of listening to Indian classical music on the family radiogram. Small wonder then, that when he was exposed to Indian music while filming in an Indian restaurant for the film HELP! that it awakened a strong interest. He began becoming a student of the sitar when he met up with Ravi Shankar and first used it on a Beatle record for John Lennon's composition Norwegian Wood. His first composition using the sitar, Love You To, appeared on the album Revolver. Recorded live in the studio with guests from North London Asian Music Circle, George playing the sitar throughout, but still in a Western style unlike that of an Asian musician at this stage. His lead vocal and Ringo's tambourine were added to Take 6 on April 13th. John Lennon is not on the record. The engineer Geoff Emerick used two close-up mikes for the tablas, something previously unheard of but so successful that it became standard studio practice thereafter.
Beatles albums have been remastered many times over the years and Love You To had even been remixed in 1999 for the Yellow Submarine Songtrack album, the first Beatle album to feature remixes.
My copy of Revolver (2022 Remix) arrived on Sunday and has been revolvering in my CD player ever since. The mixes are quite wonderful and benefit superbly from the newly advanced technology applied to the 1966 multi-tracks.

One year ago:
The Woodland Garden (Acer leaves)