Calne (Wednesday 23rd June 2021)

It was a rather strange Wednesday. Refna cried off because she had work to do on her allotment, but instead I had the company of a BT Open Reach engineer who came to look into noise on the phone line and ended up replacing and re-siting the master socket, which meant that I had no landline phone or broadband for the morning.
In the afternoon I had a doctor's appointment for a condition I had reported in February and heard nothing about until now. It was a thorough but very unpleasant experience. On my way from the surgery to the supermarket I noticed this vintage Morris 8 on a private road, where it was being worked on. It was the only subject I photographed that day.

Friday 25.6.2021 (1007 hr)

Blip #3465 (#3215 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #023
Blips/Extras In 2021 #121/266 + #072/100 Extras
Day #4109 (900 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2608 (#2448 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (24-2000mm equivalent bridge camera)

Calne series

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Prince - Born 2 Die (2010)
So many LOTD's have been recordings that were not released at the time and finally made available decades later, and this Curtis Mayfield pastiche is a case in point, as Prince's website says. Born 2 Die is the second single made available from Prince’s upcoming unreleased studio album Welcome 2 America and is available now. The song was recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010.

The slow-burning song was first recorded by Prince, the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld and the drummer Chris Coleman, and then accentuated by the vocal harmonies of Shelby J, Liv Warfield and Elisa Fiorillo, and topped off by a melody sung by Prince himself. He then tapped his longtime music director Morris Hayes to add final production to the track—and shared some of the inspiration behind its sound.

"We got to Born 2 Die, and Prince said, 'I'll tell you how that came about,' Morris remembers. "He had been watching videos of his friend Dr Cornel West on YouTube, and during one speech Dr West said, 'I love my brother Prince, but he’s no Curtis Mayfield.' So Prince said, "Oh really? We will see." - Prince website

One year ago:
The Old Forge (Dove)