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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My first day as an Oxfam volunteer. I came home with some records - everything 99p. Top left is a sleeveless Swimming Horses by Siouxsie and the Banshees.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While Mrs F was looking at handbags, I popped over the road to Sue Ryder.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had to drop a mattress at the tip and pick up some bubbly from Waitrose, and noticed that Oxfam had reopened after five months. In other news, I am now their new volunteer music pricer.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The two saints (Ives and Neots) chazza roundup. Shirley smells like she has been in a shed since 1958.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stephen Tin Tin Duffy rarity spotted in Sue Ryder this morning

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First-world problems: woken before sunrise. By a pair of owls in the oak tree outside the bedroom window. "Twit"... "Twoo"... etc for half an hour or so. Tired, but happy...

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Daughter’s driving practice took us to Huntingdon yesterday. 5 CDs for a quid in the Volunteer centre, 3 for £1 in BHF

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Find yourself DJing to an audience of primary school kids? Don't know what to play? This turned out to be the hit of yesterday's three-hour set. (Eggs by the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, in case you can't see the video.) There's no accounting for taste! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtaE...

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Trachtenburg Family Slideshow - Eggs

YouTube video by barnonerecords

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If anyone's round the South Cambs area later, I'm doing a sort of CSC Roadshow at this. The tat starts at 4:30pm.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

North Norfolk Chazza roundup. Schools back and some new stock out. Last trip until late October. 7s from the top are Chuck E’s in Love, John Cougar-Jack & Diane, Genesis-Match of the Day.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Morning. Copy going spare in Cromer if anyone needs it

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Went for a walk and a cuppa at the National Trust this morning. Nipped into the Chazza bookshop on the way back to the car park. £2 paperback.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Listening in North Norfolk to CSC with my agent in the passenger seat and Jase has got me muddled up with someone else again. Consistency counts for a lot.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We went to the Raptor Foundation on the weekend. Even at 25p for a double CD, this is pretty thin gruel.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Daughter wanted some driving practice so we went to Huntingdon. Top two rows 30p each, bottom row 50p

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sonic has moved into the gap between my bike shed and next door’s fence. I have left him something to drink.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We've had Mrs F's 30ish niece, hubby and their two boys staying in our spare room. The cat has been hiding under the sofa in my den to avoid the "boisterous" intruders. Kids went to bed, summoned to living room: "don't be antisocial". I sat for an hour and watched 3 adults doomscrolling in silence.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Daughter wanted some driving practice so we went to St Ives. 3 CDs for a quid in BHF and twelves from Woodgreen. Unfortunately the mad pricer is back so no bargains to be had. £4.50 for sleeveless Pretenders 7”, anyone?

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

North Norfolk Chazza book roundup from last weekend. Three from three different branches of EACH and Hepworth from RSPCA in Cromer.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

North Norfolk long weekend Chazza roundup. Everything a quid or 50p except Deelite 7” for £1.75!

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Needed a new watch strap so popped into H’don and the blind place by the car park was open for once. A quid each. Lotsa Frank there for next time.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There was a little record fair in St Ives this afternoon. It was very quiet and half the stalls were packing up at lunchtime. I spent a tenner on 8 twelves and two LPs. Nick Heyward 12 and Linda Rondstat comp from Woodgreen.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Took a car load to the recycling centre this morning and popped into Cancer Research on the way home.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Woodgreen have moved along the road to a bigger shop and now have a proper stock of music, supplied and priced by the warehouse, so no more £18 Jim Reeves LPs.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Brrrr... Where has the big yellow balloon gone? And why is the sky leaking?

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Coming soon to a wireless near you, I hope.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I bet Bruno Brookes doesn’t have to put up with this kind of amateur nonsense.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Colonoscopy report summary says "Uneventful". I beg to differ: I spent 24 hours drinking laxatives and turning myself inside out, someone injected me with Fentanyl, and someone else shoved a camera up my bum. I'd call that a fairly lively day out!

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Day 6. Beccles again. Everything from The A Shop on Blyburgate Which was open today.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Day 5. Beccles. The A Shop was closed so back tomorrow.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Day 4, Aldeburgh. Albums from St Lizzy’s Hospice, cd singles from Sue Ryder. Beccles tomorrow.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Halesworth CDs. St Lizzie’s a quid a pop, Dee’s Den 3 for 50p.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Day 3. St Liz Hospice, Halesworth, came up trumps. Everything a quid apart from minty Isleys a fiver from Halesworth Music Emporium (the shop of the Southwold record fair man) and Andy Williams £1 from Southwold Break for Mr AV. The Walkabouts is a US release on Sub Pop, what's it doing in Suffolk?

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Southwold day two. Double Whitney £1 in St Elizabeth Hospice. Unkle, Q Covered £1.10 and a load of 25p Beany-tastic newspaper giveaways from Break.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Sounds really heavy. Is that the 180kg pressing?

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@avavsystems.bsky.social do you need Andy Williams in quad? Break in Southwold has a copy and I am here all week. Think it is £2.50

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Southwold day one. Glennie for Bjork’s My Spine.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Southwold Chazza raid, day zero (I nipped into EACH just before they shut, on my to the CoOp, because I left the cheese at home).

Guy Pratt’s autobiography and Olivia Coleman covers Portishead

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There is no finer sound on a summer's evening than a child having a tantrum in a back garden... when it is someone else's problem, because yours are now in their twenties, and won't get in a paddling pool in the first place.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Friday morning's St Neots chazza haul. Records: Cancer Research; CDs: the Dogs Trust.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Popped into St Ives for tile grout and a quick dash round the chazzas.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I was going to spend this afternoon recording links for my next CSC, but Microsoft have decided that my 2013 Avid USB audio interface will no longer connect to Windows 11. I met Bill Gates once, I should have kicked him in the balls.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A question for the vinyl/hi-fi buffs. My Audio-Technica AT-OC9XSL (MC cartridge) has died. It could sound a bit 'edgy' with less-than-mint vinyl (I buy a lot), could that be due to the Line Contact stylus? The AT-OC9XSH (Shibata tip) is £80 cheaper. I'd sacrifice a bit of performance for robustness.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Mrs F got her eyes tested while I bought some chazza tat. Everything a quid apart from fantastic minty Fern Kinney a fiver.

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Steve Fenton @fentonsteve.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Spent yesterday evening with Mrs F, looking for holiday flats on the Suffolk coast. My first thought: "I can go to the A shop in Beccles and buy a load of chazza vinyl." I'm a lost cause, aren't I?

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