Sorry for the over-emotional post, but I'm about to be reunited with the love of my life.

[fork me]

We've been apart for 7 years since I left the UK and moved to Cyprus.

It's been a long trip by boat, but I've just had the phone call.

In half an hour my record collection will be here!

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Let's hear it for vinyl
How many albums are we talking? What sort of stuff have you got?
#recordcollector #vinylhead

 

[HantsSeagull]

what will you play first?

 

[gregbrighton]

...and there I was thinking it would be your car.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

We've been apart for 7 years since I left the UK and moved to Cyprus.

It's been a long trip by boat, but I've just had the phone call.

In half an hour my record collection will be here!

That is a really slow boat.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

.....Stop Press....HGV collides with train on level crossing in Cyprus.....vehicle catches fire....driver escapes...... no further news.......Reuters.......07.30 GMT

 

[ManOfSussex]

It was being shipped by GB Railfreight, but they are sorry to announce that the train has been cancelled due to 'staff sickness'.

 

[fork me]

Let's hear it for vinyl
How many albums are we talking? What sort of stuff have you got?
#recordcollector #vinylhead

A lot.

As to "sort of stuff", it's very diverse, goes right back to the 50s and was uip =to date when I left the UK 7 years ago. I DJ'd in both mainstream and alternative clubs for many years.

You can see most of it here: https://www.discogs.com/user/ForkMe/collection although it's about 600 CDs short (I hadn't finished entering everything when I left the UK). You can sort by any field on that list. It also includes a small (about 200 albums and a small number of singles) collection I bought from an elderly widow (her husbands collection) over here to stop a local auctions house from ripping her off (they'd offered her 20 Euros for the whole lot, so I gave her 100). That's why there's so much James Last and Sinatra shit in there! I hadn't bothered looking through the singles but when I got them home and did, they were all crap apart from one.

This baby in near mint condition: https://www.discogs.com/John-E-Paul-Prince-Of-PlayersI-Wanna-Know/release/6281515

Seems my good deed was rewarded.

 

[fork me]

.....Stop Press....HGV collides with train on level crossing in Cyprus.....vehicle catches fire....driver escapes...... no further news.......Reuters.......07.30 GMT

LOL, would be difficult with no railways on the island!

Anyway, it's arrived.

 

[fork me]

what will you play first?

I have no idea. I have a turntable in the box though!

 

[Official Old Man]

Oh the emotions of being reunited with those memories.
When I moved to Spain in 1984 my collection took two years to catch up with me (Spain were not in the EU). The day it arrived a local club asked if I wanted to DJ that night, I did and lasted 12 years!
Back in the UK the collection was put in cupboards in the office but last year my Wife asked if I wanted to display it all in glass cabinets in the dining room, YOU BET.
Around 6000 7" & 12" singles. And I know every one of them from the colour of the label or sleeve. Of course I never play them any more but did make CD's from the vinyl versions of Dark Side of the Moon and a few others.