Retro Reward Request

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Date: 27 May 2011 09:03:17

Ok, so we all know Third Party has been bought up on way to much 80's nostalgia. I hold a certain other Wiblogger partially responsible too, (you know who you are Surfing!). Anyway it is perhaps no suprise then that when this week, after a particularly stressful couple of days containing four of her five papers, she felt her EMA should be used to reward herself a little she decided to toddle off to Argos and buy a Sony Walkman. Yes, you know the old skool type that plays tapes. Her logic was that she preferred the idea of old fashioned mix tapes to i-pod play lists. She wanted to go retro with her technology, putting songs from the CD's we have on tape.

So that's the retro reward (which I did help donate towards with a pack of batteries and blank tapes). Now the request bit - to our friends. It is many years since I went down the CD rather than tape route and we have no cassettes that are pre-recorded. I didn't know if others had ones sitting in a box anywhere they no longer listened to, (or whether we'd all shipped them to the charity shops she will now be scouring). If you happen to have some you no longer listen to and know who we are IRL please could pass them on to TP via either post or passing them to her at Greenbelt, etc. Her tastes are pretty eclectic ranging from Vera Lynn to rap with a taste for jazz, "old skool" r&b, ska and 80's cheesy pop coming in there as well.

Anyway...that's the retro reward request. Thanks to anybody who can help support my daughter with her retro obsession.