Birthday edition

This week we are looking a bit a birthday presents in a semi synchro post with the other blog but reworked.

Things are obviously a little different this year with everything around Mom's death and upcoming funeral very much overshadowing all else most visibly in lack of space in window for cards with cards for her.

Disabled birthday cards are hard to find even in an age of inclusion in most other respects.

To an extent then really little has been planned with time taken up with everything around that but I did this, the recent Gorillaz album on compact disc, one of those card cover ones so I may need to put the disc in a inner sleeve to prevent it getting marked.

This does to me sound more like a club centric Damon Albarn solo project than classic albums like Plastic Beach

The project that NOW started way back in 2021,the Now Yearbook series, a series of cds comprising of a main set covering the hits of one specific year in a book and a three cd extra set of often minor but more musically interesting ones continues with this, the volume for 1986.

This was on I got as one of the two main compilation series of the time, the HITS ones only saw the last one issued in 1986 issued on compact disc and then only as a single cd rather than the double which the record and tape versions were.

I have pre-ordered the Extra set to go with it.

I did get some new soft underwear, don't do really fancy colourful designs this year and some money from my brothers, other relatives and The Grump that I can buy some books or music with at some future point.

We didn't go out for a meal as there was little real mood for celebration and that obviously brings back memories from past years.