This. I’ve been seriously thinking of shifting my Psych and Freakbeat 45’s whilst there’s still an audience because in 10-15 years time, they’ll be utterly meaningless/worthless to anyone if I’m honest 
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People probably said that in the 80s … and prices don’t seem to be going down 
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Crazy prices for some of this stuff really. I expect mostly bought by dealers who will try and inflate even further upwards. I bid on one of the soundtrack job lots because it had a few I’d like and I’d have just got rid of the rest on eBay but it sold for five times my top bid in the end…
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The whole ‘record collector’ vibe has always seemed very MOR to me…
Just sixties albums of mainstream pop acts increasing in value year after year …
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Just bought these off ebay so, will soon be reading. Years 87/88/89 should be an interesting snapshot.
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I used to read Jocks … it became DJ magazine didn’t it
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i believe so. I thought for £16 and for these years, couldn’t say no.
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Can’t recommend this one enough. A unique look into Ukraine & the war mingled with personal experience/memoir.
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Its now your duty to scan, tag & post every individual article / picture / advert for internet viewers
( But what a palaver!)
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This is really relevant to my own interests and experiences. Thanks for sharing.
I qualified as a primary teacher in 2005, and have been in schools since 2001 - first, voluntary, and then training.
My career spans the before and after of screen time. When I really started setting work for children online in around 2007/8 some children were allowed access to their parents’ computer or laptop. Around 2012, devices such as tablets were on the rise, and then we’ve been where we are today since 2015-17 where children are raised on screen time.
Around 10 years ago, I started noticing a language gap. Children increasingly not knowing vocabulary from the ‘adult world’. Examples I give are words like ‘spatula’ or ‘motorway junction’.
Children have been party to adult conversation since humans have been talking. We learn vocabulary, ideas, social etiquette and manners, humour, grammar, nuance etc. from listening and watching others speak. Now that children don’t listen to adults speak in the car, at the table, walking along, around the house, at family occasions etc. (because they’re tuned in to their device or communicating with peers instead via technology), there’s this huge gap in their learning.
I’ve had my eye out for research in this field or any relevant articles for a long time, but have never really seen much.
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Interesting, I’ve noticed that. My daughter is doing really well at school but it amazes me some of the things she doesn’t know. Never had a reference point to judge against.
I suspect there’s something in that not listening to adult conversation and picking up stuff from there. In the car and straight on with the headphones
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what a day yesterday, fuck me. it’s weird - telling? - how we’ve come so far with tech and yet in an emergency your most reliable tool is a battery-powered transistor radio.
the radio news were trying to sensationalise things but it was hardly New York '77 - but equally I guess it showed up a country’s limitations. If it wasn’t foul play, a few foul players will have been paying attention…
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How was it for you?
I might need your advice.
Flying to Madrid in the morning with autistic son to visit Warner Brothers theme park. Supposedly.
Are things… back to normal?
you’d better check there. hope goes well!
a few charts might make it onto the relevant thread.
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I read this ahead of going to Manhunt the play it’s been turned into. Its a great bit of true crime like Miller’s Executioner’s Song only a fraction of the length. Its all written in the second person which makes it a totally unique experience. Spoiler alert, Gazza does not get a mention.
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