Gin Quarter Day (Thursday 5th October 2023)

This is a place-holder blip because my quarterly delivery from the Craft Gin Club arrived this morning (with a 'booster' box to come). I usually blip a couple of days later when their embargo is lifted because of staggered delivery dates, but as I 'accidentally' opened one of the contents after unpacking and photographing the contents this morning, I decided to adopt a different strategy, by blipping the packaging crate on the day, and backblipping the contents on or after Saturday 7th by replacing this image with it.

It's been an up and down week of trials and tribulations with health issues involving a trip to the doctors on Monday, insurance companies, neighbours, friends and builders all playing a part, but some progress has been made on all fronts including a settlement regarding the outbuilding flood claim and hopefully an end in sight to getting the outbuilding washroom area sorted with new units and pipework.

L.
Thursday 5.10.2023 (1418 hr)

Saturday 7.10.23 (1150 hr):
Now the deadline has passed and all subscribers should have received their packages, I have replaced the cardboard crate I used as a place-holder with what was hidden inside.


Blip #3967 (#3717 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #173/265 + #084/100 Extras
Day #4941 (1164 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3107 (#2947 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 M4/3 compact

Alcohol series
Gin series
Craft Gin Club series
Still Life series
Recent Purchases series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Tori Amos - Rattlesnakes (recorded February-July 2001, Martian Studios, Cornwall)
It is often fascinating to hear an artist performing material created by other people, and wonder why they chose it and what they have brought to the song. Tori Amos's album Strange Little Girls took twelve songs written by and for men and interpreted them from a female perspective, a different personae for each track. The themes of her own songs Silent All These Years and Me And A Gun are both echoed in one of Lloyd Cole's
best-known songs (co-written with Neil Clark from the Commotions), from 1984, Rattlesnakes, inspired by the writings of Joan Didion. I've always enjoyed the literary references to Simone de Beauvoir and to Eva Marie Saint "in On The Waterfront" in the song.
One year ago:
Bowood