Caen Hill (Wednesday 10th July 2024)

I had a round trip today which took in several stops at Chippenham and Devizes. This included parking by the canal at the top of Caen Hill where I had a picnic lunch from the Caen Hill Cafe, sitting on the ground at the site of this blip, and a further 40 minutes sitting on a bench (in Extras) reading and chatting to the boaters going through the adjacent A P Herbert lock. I also did some shopping at WHS, B&Q, Morrison's and Lidl.
I noticed the Wilkinson's in Chippenham that had closed is about to become a Tesco Express, the second Tesco's in the town centre.

L.
Wednesday 10.7.2024 (1954 hr)

Blip #4120 (#3870 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #003
Blips/Extras In 2024 #104/266 + #045/100 Extras
Day #5219 (1293 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3259 (#3099 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 Micro 4/3rds

Landscape series
Flora series
Canals series
Kennet and Avon Canal series
Devizes series
Outdoor Places I Have Sat In series

Caen Hill, 10 July 2024 (Flickr album of 15 images)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Broadcast - Forget every time (recorded 15 September 1996, Maida Vale 4, for John Peel)
Not long ago I acquired a CD of Broadcast's Maida Vale Sessions, and played it for the first time today. One of these sessions was for the Evening Session show but all the others were for John Peel, who championed this Birmingham band, who formed in 1995, from the outset. Several of the songs they recorded for the BBC were not recorded for their records for sometimes years to come, but this is unique in that there is no released studio version of the song at all.
"There was a sense of initiation on entering the Maida Vale studios. We were quiet as we received our BBC badges and escorted, by security, to the large elevators that took us and our equipment down below ground-level. What we found was a maze of hallways and side rooms, strangely silent and uninhabited. During a break from recording, we wondered through the corridors, peering through the windows of locked rooms, on a hunt for the Radiophonic Workshop. We came across abandoned tape machines and Shostakovich posters in the hallways and scratched our heads curiously at finding a rare EMS Vocoder sitting all lonely in the corner of a deserted foyer. It was wonderful to be free to walk around unquestioned.
"We hovered outside the locked Radiophonic room, a little disappointed by what we could see through the window - a couple of DX7s and stacked cardboard boxes. We contemplated unscrewing the Radiophonic Workshop name plate from the door and making off with it, but knew the stern-faced security guard from earlier would have been on to us."  - Trish Keenan, Broadcast