A Fax machine, a CD and Central Heating

The first is that I have acquired a fax – seemed to be becoming sortr of obligatory -if you haven’t one it could be soon like not having a phone.  Im running it from the current Sussex number at the moment, so can only receive when someone is here to switch it over.  But it is useful, and of course fun.

Second is that we have succumbed to CD.  I have hankered after something I could play music on, and not mess up for ages, but with a best record collection it seemed terrible to start again.  However, as our records are in such a mess that we seldom play them, we bought a few weeks ago, a portable player.  What an experience.  I knew the sound from CD’s was good, but to sit holding a little box in your hand and listen through the headphones is quite an extraordinary sensation.  If you have never listened through headphones, DO.  Because  you can run through batteries in days, we now have a mains adaptor, and one for the cigar lighter in the car, so we travel back and forth with lots of cords and paraphanalia.  But there are cheap CD’s around which are excellent, including some from East Europe.

Our third move is to be getting central heating put in at the cottage.  It feels disloyal to the Rayburn, but after the joy of returning to a warm flat since we put it in there on a seven day timer, I can live with disloyalty.  Lots of technical things to be sorted out, like where we put the gas cylinders (no gas in the village, so will have to build a little house on the front terrace).  But I think the decision has virtually been made.