Before... (Thursday 21st September 2023)

Diary blip. The storms last December blew my car port out of skew. It was built for me in the early nineties and has lasted well, but I suspect the bottoms of the posts have gone rotten. I quickly realised that if it shifted sideways in either direction it would shortly come to rest against solid objects and cause no harm, but it has also been very slowly shifting forwards by millimetres and I began to appreciate that were a post to split under the pressure or collapse then the very heavy roof would land on the top of Archie, who sits underneath it and behind Buzz, and would crush it.

Finding somewhere else to park Archie has become a priority in recent days. So far I have implemented a very temporary solution, so Archie is no longer in danger, and I am trying to get hold of someone who can dismantle and dispose of the car port, making the space safe again. First quote later today, I hope.

L.
Thursday 21.9.2023 (1638 hr)

Blip #3959 (#3709 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #165/265 + #082/100 Extras
Day #4926 (1157 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3099 (#2939 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with iPad Air 2 (HDR)

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Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Pete Townshend - Pure And Easy (Lifehouse Chronicles / Home Studio Mix) (recorded 1972, Pete's home 'Eel Pie' Studio)
Today I was playing the new cover CD for the Uncut magazine for November 2023. It was devoted to the demos Pete Townshend created for the Lifehouse project and tracks from the next album, his follow-up to Tommy. Nobody else quite got it and the project was eventually shelved, with some of the songs recycled on the next studio album Who's Next and subsequent singles and album tracks. Several demos appeared on his solo album Who Came First.

Pure And Easy appeared in a far shorter version on that album. It was recorded by the Who for Who's Next but was left off the final version of the album for reasons of length, although a few lines from the song are sung towards the end of the final song, The Song Is Over.

The version by the Who was later included on the compilation album Odds And Sods and became a highly regarded Who number that had never reached its deserved place in the Who canon.