Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

I have seen everything happen in my job and private life.

 

Thanks @ViewAhead. But you know I can't remember when I last bought a CD. I'm tending to get all my music fix nowadays from Spotify, although if I hear something I really like I will try to get the CD.

I've recently purchased a new turntable and am re-acquainting myself with my extensive seventies' vinyl collection. But no way am I prepared to pay over £20 for any new LPs - I'd get the much cheaper CD instead.

 

I used to buy singles, EPs and LPs and record them immediately onto tape so the records didn't get scratched. Then I switched to CDs and transferred them onto my PC and then playlists using i-Tunes for parties and dance club practices.

Haven't bought a new CD in ages and rarely buy new these days but will buy CD versions of LPs or compilations with my singles on them. Now I have a record deck which I can connect to a PC for recording stuff but haven't tried it yet. Been too busy with house and garden and life in general.

 

I downloaded loads of music some years ago from the HMV site, it cost something for each track.
Suddenly they announced that they were closing down the site as everyone was using MP4 or some such thing.
Fact is I put it all onto memory sticks but nothing will play it because of something about needing some kind of permission.

 

I use a USB stick in the car with music that was transferred from cd via Windows10, which was fairly straight forward. The problem I have now is I want to wipe the stick and start again via Windows11. I'm pretty useless with technology and looking at 'how to do' videos goes straight over my head. Pausing them at each stage is possible but I don't understand them anyway. Even written instructions online don't make sense to me. I need idiot proof instructions.

 

Maybe just go to delete to start with.
New sticks are pretty cheap these days if you cant work it out.

 

The trouble with all these downloads, @pete, is you don't own them. I purchased some sheet music, site closes down, poof, purchases gone.

 

Well in my case you were allowed to copy it twice I think, after that for some reason couldn't copy it any more.
How they do that I don't know.
All I know is that I can't find anything that will play it now for some reason.

 

I know at some point I'll have to find another method of having music in the car @Obelix-Vendée , and daughter can help me with that. I still use an i pod for when I'm out walking, when the radio doesn't suit, and that can be connected in cars etc, but I haven't looked at it all yet. Probably transfer stuff onto a memory stick though. Depends on how long I keep this car, and can still use my CDs in it.

 

Had to go into town this morning and my god it was an eye opener must of the time i was driving in the town i thought my god everything looks like a tip!!!!!! even the new housing estsates looked like no one care's, why have we got to this sort of state? even when i got to where i was going there was rubbish & weeds every where again looked like a shamable's i even said to the lady that i seen (i don't think she like it ) Is it because no one care's, haven't got an APP for that, no time to do it because we only work 2 hour's a day 2 days a week flexy time, to many meeting's to talk about Heath & Saftey to do the bleeding job then there's no time left so have to come back tommow and the cycle starts again

I'm glad i live in the middle of nowhere i don't even have to look at the shamable this country is in

What a mess

 

My parents say the same thing, you come back from Europe and you know your home because you see all the rubbish and graffiti when you hit uk shores.

 

Not everywhere abroad is pristine. I use an internet site for a place I visit on a regular basis. One regular contributor is one of the local refuse collectors. He's complaining to and about locals who just dump bags of rubbish rather than walking a few yards to the communal bins.

 

People really are bad these days and it is getting worse, people even spend vast amounts of money buying a property then cant be bothered to cut a small patch of grass or a small hedge, they leave wheelie bins in the street because they cant be bothered to move them in the tiny front garden they have.

I'm sure half of them think its not their responsibility if its outside the confines of the building.

Put them all in flats I say, high rise ones at that.

While we are on the subject of rotten people what's with all this taking the supermarket trolley home and then dumping it in the street.

At the supermarket where I go you often cant get one of the smaller ones mostly because they are abandoned everywhere locally.

I walked through some fairly modern Apartments that has been built just down the road from supermarket, nice area you might think, they have a communal rubbish area and it had about 10 trolleys there.

 

The couple across the road from me are in their 80s, and love their garden. The house adjoining theirs was bought by a guy in his 50s who never did anything to his garden, front or rear. Result was very long grass plus weeds everywhere. They mentioned the state of the garden to their neighbour and his answer minus many swear words was along the lines of "I couldn't care less about the garden. If it bothers you so much you look after it". That was the last conversation they, or any of the neighbours, had with him. He has since cut the grass at the front a couple of times but that's all. Shrubs are all overgrown and the borders thick with weeds.

 

Why is it there's always something to remind you how old you've become? Just received a Facebook notification from an old friend that this week is the 54th anniversary of our starting 'big' school. Where on earth did all that time go?