Well folks I got fed up of looking at peoples wonderful pictures of their fabulous systems, usually taken in what looks like an Ideal Home exhibit. Well, compared to my room, anyway.
I used to be pretty house proud up until my father died back in 2009, since then I can't be bothered. No excuse I know, but there is only so long you can let these things slide.
So four days off my mission: to clean house and tidy up the system and the man cave. This was like one of those Chinese puzzles - no-where to put all of the kit accumulated downstairs as upstairs was already full. Oh dear. My plan was to rationalise the storeroom - aka the guest bedroom - which in theory would give plenty of space. Problem: I could not access the spare room. I could not even get to the landing that accesses the spare room. So, with a massive effort of willpower I started hacking away at it like a miner at the coalface. I am out of shape, but frequent tea and fag breaks helped
Long story short 4 days later not everything is done but I now have a viable store room with bags of space for more pishanto - ahem I mean vintage kit. I should really have taken before and after pictures but really the 'before' pictures would probably get me sectioned under the Mental Health Act so to compromise here are some pictures of my all new, revamped, everything on one rack lash up:
I'm currently awaiting arrival of a new stylus for my Nag MP50, expensive, but I will get more than my moneys worth out of it so who cares? When that gets here I will be testing the all-new Firebottle valve MM stage, so don't forget to tune in next week folks!