Mrs F had some donations to drop off so today’s Chazza harvest. Livvy neutron-bomb & Sam Cooke £2 each, everything else a quid

Dropped daughter at the station and visited the new Bernado's on - literally - the other side of the tracks. The nipped into town where Cancer Research had just put out some fresh stock.

A tale of two Saints. St. Neots on Saturday for Sudafed, St. Ives yesterday for cheese biscuits we didn't really need. "Well, we've got an hour on the parking, I might as well have a dash round the chazzas while we're here." Mrs F bought a scarf for a quid in BHF. Top left is Rapper's Delight.

Mrs F popped to the shops this morning and came home with three free LPs from the "too shit to sell" rack outside a charity shop. I have created a monster!

Daughter has passed on her germs, so I nipped into town to stock up on Lemsip, and a quick chazza dash, after dropping her off at work. Everything a quid apart from Dave Brubeck (£2), and the bottom row both £3 - Van from BHF and a promo of The Ups and Downs by Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy.

News headline or Wanda Jackson rejected song titles. An occasional series.

Quandary of the day. There's a horrid vinyl warehouse (a cold, damp, industrial unit behind a used car dealer in the wrong end of town, crates on trestle tables and a dodgy geezer behind the counter) where I recently bought a load of 12" singles for a quid a pop, and felt dirty afterwards.

Lunchtime chazza run. There's not much music out there amongst the festive tat.

The most interesting thing I have done for ages was to replace the hard drive in a 15-year-old mini-PC with a SSD and install Windows 11 on it. I’m a modern day Womble.

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View from the bed after having my kidney stones lasered this morning. All fine so far but also off my tits on Tramadol. Going home this afternoon.

Last Cromer (and Holt) chazza haul of 2025.

Huntingdon is my nearest market town. It's a rather nice little town centre with half a dozen great charity shops, the fantastic Cromwell museum, and I got married in Hinchingbrooke House (Cromwell's childhood home - here's a picture of it in the sunshine). Not everybody there is a stabby nutter.

Offspring flooded the shower with hair in the drain, so I popped into town at lunchtime for some drain cleaner and some Chazza tat.

The neighbours came round for breakfast.

Hired a campervan. Went to the NEC show. Spent a weekend in the Cotswolds. Bought some chazza tat.I used to spend weeks in Evesham during my Beeb days but it is now a bit of a dump, I am sad to say.

Should I buy this?

I was supposed to spend yesterday in the passenger seat of my elder offspring's pink Fiat 500, practicing the driving test routes of Cambridge. But it was foggy, and she had a sneeze and cough, so I spent it playing tat instead. Coming to a wireless near you soon(ish).

Went to the opticians and had time on the parking for a quick spot of chazzaring. Everything a quid, apart from a minty Eureka, which was free in return for donating three Kenny G albums (and some other tat).

Had to work last Saturday so had a day off in lieu. Went to Cambridgeshire's biggest market town. Bought some chazza tat.

Went to visit the raptors for Mrs F's birthday. Bought some tat in the chazza.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Well, I hope that was as much fun for you as it was for me. I'll see you again soon, I hope.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Laura Branigan - Gloria on another £1 7" from Cromer PACT.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) on a "condition: Disco" 50p seven inch.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love. This was playing on the radio, as we drove up to Cromer, the night before I spotted it in the racks on Saturday morning. If that's not a sign from above, I don't know what is.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Anita Ward - Ring My Bell on a 7" from the Cromer RSPCA.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Van McCoy - The Hustle

@charityclassics.bsky.social Tina Charles - I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance) from a £2.50 Oxfam LP as the 50p 7" was too "condition: Disco" for broadcast.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way on another 50p Motown 7" from Break.

@charityclassics.bsky.social The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) on 7". I nearly paid six quid (!) for a Jacksons Disco 12" in a Holt chazza last month, until Mrs F intervened.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke. Although Songs In The Key Of Life is a chazza staple, I've never seen this on 7" before. 50p from Break, as per.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Donna Summer - I Feel Love on another 50p "condition: Disco" seven inch.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits. On a sleeveless "condition: Disco" 50p seven

@charityclassics.bsky.social Toni Basil - Mickey. Another £1 seven inch in a tatty picture sleeve.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Ottawan - D.I.S.C.O. from 20 Holiday Hits, one of three boxes from a local yard sale in aid of the Brain Tumour Trust a few years ago.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Liquid Gold - Dance Yourself Dizzy on 7". Surely the only band from Brackley, Northants? It's not that far over the border from me here is South Cambs.

@charityclassics.bsky.social Morning! And we're off with Village People - Y.M.C.A. I want to see those arms in the air for the chorus.

Your 13 hour tat warning

I have become that bloke - there's one in every community - to ring up on a Sunday morning and ask "I have a box of old records in the garage, would you like a look before I take them to the charity shop?" #LifeGoals

Went to Wrentham to check out a campervan site. Only 10 mins from Beccles, so went back on the off-chance that The A Shop (Autism East Anglia) was open, which it was. Think: a record shop run by a chazza, and full of tat. Hurrah! Everything a quid or two apart from a minty Isleys for a fiver.

CDs a quid each. Natalie includes the DVD. I've seen Cicero Buck (the artists formerly known as The Lover Speaks, as covered by Annie) twice, most recently with yet another name, in April at a RSD garden party.

Bounty from the chazzas of Beccles. Dionne and Inner City 12" £2 each, minty South Pacific and Three Degrees a quid.

Went to Aldeburgh and nearly bought Kim Wilde's debut on LP in Sue Ryder. But no inner sleeve, shabby vinyl, and five quid. Got this in Break for £1.10 - a lot for a CD single but contains my favourite Nat song, Something Better, written by my tall chum.

The chazzas of Southwold raided. Two K-Tel compo LPs from Break £1.50 each, 50p CDs from St Elizabeth Hospice, Beany-fied Sunday newspaper CDs 25p a pop. Two CDs of Aretha for 25p!

Heading to Southwold next week with Mrs F, with car and without offsprings. We both like chazzas, she likes jigsaws and I like records. To where should we day trip?

Always read the small print. The you-can-buy-this-from-a-petrol-staion-forecort cover art should have set alarm bells ringing. Oh well, only 33p wasted.

Are we taking the p!$$? Yes, you are.

Some close-ups of that Thelma Houston direct to disc LP for the format nerds amongst you (hello, Andy!) The only other one I can think of is Emily Barker's Coffee EP from 2013, which doesn't even have a Discogs entry.

Another weekend spent hoovering up the slightly depleted chazza stocks of the north Norfolk coast. LPs a quid or two, 7s 50p, CDs either 50p, £1 or 3 for a quid. Thelma Houston (Sheffield Labs direct-to-disk audiophile delight) and Now 1 both a tenner each from an actual record shop.

Judging by what has been flying over my house for the past couple of days, the Duxford IWM show is going to be good. These were looping the loop yesterday, and Sally B the Flying Fortress just flew over while I was pegging the washing out.