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Sounds from beyond the Shed 200 “Wow”

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It appears that this is my 200th missive from either the shed or way beyond it. What started as a lockdown commentary on teaching from a box at the bottom of my garden has morphed into […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 199 “Bandcamp Gold”

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Creating a couple of radio shows and having a voracious appetite for new music keep me coming back to Bandcamp. It is a wonderful thing. I never play tracks on my shows that I have not […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 198 “The End…”

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I have talked several times in these articles about my father and his descent into dementia. He now resides in a care home, which has, in turn, released my mother (87) from fifteen years of increasing […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 197 “Season’s End”

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Spent a few days visiting children and grandchildren over the Bank Holiday weekend and celebrating Mrs H’s birthday. And suddenly it seems that summer is over, not perhaps physically but in my head. I’m not bound […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 196 “Technical Issues”

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The discerning readers amongst you will have been religiously listening to the radio broadcast attached below since its inception. Every week, I travel to a radio studio in Milton Keynes and for two hours, I play […]

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