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As some of you may recall, for some time I was a champion of the 50p cassette tape, bought from a charity shop and played in a car stereo. Sadly, this is now coming back to bite me.

I no longer own a suitable car stereo, and I have masses of tapes. Some of which I wish to keep, and will be playing on my old-skool tape deck in the house, but many of which I have duplicated on CD.

I am exploring disposal options for tapes. It seems they can be recycled, but you have to pay someone to do it rather than taking them to your local tip. As far as I'm aware, charity shops don't want them any more. If anyone has any great ideas, I'd like to hear them.

However... do any of you drive elderly cars with tape decks? Or listen to tapes in other circumstances? If so, would you like a surprise parcel of random listening sent your way? I can't (and indeed won't) guarantee quality, but I do guarantee variety...

And then there's the home-recorded tapes. The above were all genuine pre-recorded albums, by the way. In the highly unlikely circumstances anyone wants to record over them for their own purposes, shout up...

Dammit, should have posted this earlier.

One of my friends is mildly inept and cannot use a calendar. Accordingly, I have one spare ticket to see Therapy? doing a play-through of Troublegum at the Kentish Town Forum tomorrow night. Or the Nestlé Condensed Milk Forum, or whatever it's called these days.

Ticket + booking fee was £25, make me an offer.

See previous post, wicked parents, attic, bah.

Does anyone know of any form of outlet for pre-owned, much-loved, non-CE-marked teddy bears and other furry creatures ? I can't possibly keep all mine, and the prospect of sending them to landfill is not to be borne. Quite apart from it being Plain Wrong, the wasting of perfectly lovable animals offends me.

The mother tells me that even charities which ship bears to children who have no bears are insistent on modern safety standards. (Not, of course, that think it's acceptable to kill children in poverty-stricken regions with toxic bears, but I regard the bears in question as perfectly safe, having failed to be killed by them myself. Many of them lack labels at all on account of being homemade.)

One pair of tickets to see the 4ft Fingers at The Cellar in Oxford, 20th March.

Bought during a fit of flagrant incompetence, whereby I had not realised that on 20th of March I shall be safely tucked up in the back of a large Citroen winging my way to Nenthead for the weekend.

4ft Fingers are a very highly recommend punk outfit (from Cheltenham, but don't hold that against them). Fast, bouncy, great basslines.

First commented first served with tickets.