A blast from the past

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So following on from my previous post, https://www.mylot.com/post/3539227/the-most-annoying-thing-ever I could not find my all-time favourite recording anywhere! House and cars were scoured to no avail. I had already searched online many times in case it was re-released or something but no luck. So finally I thought I would try eBay. Again, nothing, but I saved the search and eventually, a few months later, up came the very cassette! The seller was apparently clearing out his uncle’s music collection and had hundreds of albums of all sorts, which had all been carefully stored, so there was a fair chance this would be in good condition. I put in the winning bid and a few days later it turned up in the mail. I triumphantly put it into the cassette player and… it wouldn’t play! After a bit of tinkering around we determined that this time it was the cassette player at fault. None of us had listened to any cassettes for quite a while. The last time I did, the one I chose sounded a bit funny but I thought that must be because the tape was quite old; in fact it was the actual player. So back I went to eBay and found another cassette deck! I bid on and won what seemed, from the description, to be a good one, and the price was very reasonable. Then, just before Christmas, I made the 60-mile round-trip to collect it. Then there was the faff of connecting it up to the rest of the stereo system, but at last I was in possession of a tape in good condition and a cassette player that worked! So I am now happy to report that at last I have the story tape I am so attached to! I’ve listened to it and it’s all good. But next will be the palaver involved in recording the content onto a CD – and then making half a dozen copies just in case one goes astray again! The added bonus is that of course I can also listen to lots of other old music cassettes that I had thought were in too poor a state to use. A real blast from the past – I had forgotten how much I loved some of them! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.