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This was the view when I threw open the drapes on Wednesday morning, a heavy frost, but light winds.

It looked cold. Heck, it felt cold.

So, with my commute literally moving from one seat at the dining room table t another, I had better get going if I wasn't to get caught up in the rush hour traffic at The Hanger Lane gyratory.

Pip pip.

That being said, it was mighty chilly in the house, so I turn up the thermostat on the heating, and the boiler fired into life.

After coffee, I start work and find that the three months jam-packed with activities that had been planned, seem now to have been slimmed down to a trip to Denmark in weeks 9 and ten, and a final design audit it week 11.

It means I have tome to chase existing open audit reports and remind folks that these are not going to go away.

I decide, between work activities, to make some bread. Its been a while, but mainly due to someone buying me some chocolate pieces in my Secret Santa gift, so rather than sprinkle on coffee, I would use instead of Nutella.

Dough made an kneaded by eight, I leave it a good two hours before beating down and placing it in a silicon loaf tin.

An hour later, and it was ready to go in the oven, so in it goes, and soon smells delicious.

As soon as its out of the oven nearly an hour later, I have a buttered crust and a single thick slice with the chocolate.

Delicious.

Another highlight was the delivery of an LP I had wanted for forty years. I saw someone with a cope on Bluesky, remember that I had the cassette version from when Colourbox released their first LP, which came with a limited edition remix LP initially.

A quick search last week had a copy in Bristol for under a tenner. I bought it, and that came just about three in the afternoon. But because Poppy is now sleeping in the living room, I can't go near the hi-fi without scaring her.

At the weekend, perhaps.

It is still cold at dusk, and Jools drives home in heavy sleet, though there's none in St Maggies. Dinner is sandwiches followed by Christmas cake, which being laced with madeira is boozy and tasty.

And there is football: Spurs v Liverpool, which Spurs wins.

Well.

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Colourbox were an English electronic musical group on the 4AD label, releasing a number of records between 1982 and 1987.[1] The band was formed by brothers Martyn and Steve Young, Ian Robbins, and vocalist Debbion Currie. Currie and Robbins left the band in 1983, and Lorita Grahame joined as singer.

Colourbox stood apart from their then-4AD labelmates – bands such as Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, and This Mortal Coil (although the Young brothers contributed to tracks on the latter project's first two albums It'll End in Tears and Filigree & Shadow).[2][3] Their sound was eclectic, drawing from reggae and soul influences (with covers of tracks by U-Roy and Augustus Pablo released as singles), beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial.

Following their debut single "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" in late 1982 (and a 1983 reworking of the tracks by new producer Mick Glossop, still featuring Currie on vocals), Currie was replaced by Lorita Grahame.[1] A four-track mini-album simply titled Colourbox was released in November 1983, displaying the band's fledgling experimental sound.[1] After a handful of singles, Colourbox's first full-length studio album — also self-titled — followed in August 1985, which further refined the band's diverse palette, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals with elegiac piano pieces ("Just Give 'em Whiskey" and "Sleepwalker" respectively), commercial pop ("The Moon Is Blue" and "Suspicion") and more reggae and soul covers (U-Roy's "Say You" and The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On").[5] It was to remain the band's only full-length album.[6]

In 1986, the band issued two completely different singles simultaneously on the same day. One was an instrumental initially intended as a FIFA World Cup anthem of that year ("The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme").[1][7] The other, a cover of Jacob Miller's "Baby I Love You So", featured Lorita Grahame on vocals.[8] The same year, 4AD issued the 1983 mini-LP on CD for the first time, with the 12" versions of both of these singles added, along with the B-side "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse / Shoot Out" and the previous non-album single "Breakdown".

"Baby I Love You So" was ranked number 12 by New Musical Express on their critics' list of the best singles of 1986.[9]

The band had an international hit in 1987 with "Pump Up the Volume", a collaboration with A.R. Kane under the name MARRS.[1] The song was notable for being constructed almost entirely from samples of other records, a novelty for a popular record at that time, though Colourbox themselves had been using sampling extensively since their 1983 mini-album. The pressures of sudden success and the long-running litigation caused by the use of samples resulted in the band never recording as Colourbox again.

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