Charles Frith

Super Powers Ellia Jaya

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:32:00 +0000

Love Me Baby (La La's Pure Quality Goods Remix) Emerald

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:38:00 +0000

Chronically Online The Yard Woman

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:07:00 +0000

Germany to Malta 1973 & The San Gejtanu feast in Hamrun

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:49:00 +0000

I've been digitizing my father's 8MM cine films. It starts on a southern German autobahn somewhere between “still in Bavaria” and “we’re definitely going south now”. The car is a proper 70s Ford Estate, the road is empty by modern standards, and everyone looks quietly thrilled to be escaping the grey.

Then the Brenner Pass. Mountains, hairpins, that peculiar Alpine light that makes everything look like a postcard someone left in the sun too long. Italy arrives without ceremony — just the sudden switch to autostrada, faster traffic, and the sense that the holiday has properly begun.

Malta. White light, dusty roads, the ferry, the first proper heat. And then, by pure accident of digitising these reels today, 7 August, we land slap in the middle of the San Gejtanu feast in Ħamrun which is today. Bunting, fireworks, the whole village out, the band, the statue, the noise. Fifty-three years later and the feast is still happening on the same date. Some things refuse to change.

After the noise and the crowds, the film cuts to Golden Sands. Proper beach day. Sea the colour of a 1970s travel brochure, kids running about, adults pretending they’re not knackered from the drive. Classic end-of-journey reset.

Whole thing is maybe fifteen minutes of silent 8mm memory. No commentary needed. The pictures do the talking, and they still talk perfectly well.

Mercy Carré

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Keep Talking Just For Fun

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:17:00 +0000

Pan Temujin

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:35:00 +0000

Strike A Pose (Karen Nyame KG Remix) (feat. Camille Munn) IZCO

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:09:00 +0000

Far From Us Kloyd

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:55:00 +0000

#5GW

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:44:00 +0000

Wo, man (feat. Ayra Starr) Peggy Gou

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Body Movement Saoirse

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:55:00 +0000

Fingerprints Catching Cairo & Turno

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:38:00 +0000

Adored J. WORRA

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:52:00 +0000

Drip Jordan Nocturne

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:34:00 +0000

There's a coven at most hospitals, and more.

I'm Just Calling Claude VonStroke & Rebūke

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Misbehave DJ Tennis & Campbell King

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:06:00 +0000

Chant (Lens & Unglued Remix) Logistics

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:53:00 +0000

The 4227 00B0 is Fu*'d

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:59:00 +0000

It was fine for close to a week. Then it did moves not quite possible to my knowledge. Anyway, I shot my mouth off about it and it's gone now, presenting me with a problem to solve or not.

Newo Cuartero

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:41:00 +0000

Bad Bara Chloé Caillet

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:04:00 +0000

The World Didn't Know Your Name Till He Died

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:55:00 +0000

Erika Kirk is probably some kind of military intelligence asset. In some ways she might be mind controlled and thus actually have no agency but till the full the story comes out she gets the full cockroach treatment.

An Ebay Winner - SEIKO 5 4227 00B0

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:32:00 +0000

This is a mint condition SEIKO 4227-00BO from January 1980. It's pricey but there are people who value a mint condition. I bought one some time ago but when it arrived it wasn't keeping time so I returned it. One thing that is brilliant about ebay is the returns policy. Even if the seller states no returns, ebay will usually step in and refund either partially or fully depending on the claim. It's built into the pricing but I've returned a dozen or so watches usually for losing or gaining 5 minutes or more a day. That's my threshold because it's over half an hour a week but for a really desirable model I'd probably swallow it.

The version I bought was a real fluke (I've been very lucky in my time). First off nobody else bid on it which is highly unusual as there's an army of lowest cost SEIKO watch buyers who will bid on anything low priced from 99p upwards to a starting bid of say £20 eventually reaching about £50 sale price. But where I had an advantage was that I knew the model, knew it's value and could see that the seller took an out of focus primary image photograph. There was a better shot in the film roll but it was smaller and as I mentioned I wasn't sure what I was getting till it arrived. Anyway for 25 quid it wasn't going to disappoint massively - I've just noticed there's two bids on it so somebody tried to outbid my by raising the price a few pennies but I think I rounded up my only bid. An extra pound could have robbed me of the prize.

Even the more focused shot is ambiguous about the casing colour but as previously mentioned, when it arrived I was stoked. It's in terrific condition and even has a slight patina of wear on the bracelet edges for authenticity.

I also have the smallest model in this range, the SEIKO 5 - 4207-00N0 that I purchased from a Japanese seller. It was produced in November 1985 and is very dinky but I love wearing it. Because it is near mint condition I also don't feel guilty about wearing it more than the older models I have.

The reason for these watch posts is I've a gut feel about something. I always liked the idea of an Automatic watch and I've explained why I focus on the SEIKO TV models from 68-73 but the manner of my immersion into the field was so not me. Firstly I'm absolutely not a materialists. I like and value luxury items but I don't need them. My first watch was a sort of long held hankering that turned into an ebay search and purchase, but it wasn't accurate so I returned it. I then bought my first SEIKO 5 6119-5000 from the year of my birth and was delighted with it. I started looking around and next purchased a RADO Manhattan (a model Gorbachev wore during his Reagan nuclear summits) but that too began to stop and start and even though it wasn't in the price the Tokyo seller apologised profusely and shipped it backed to Japan with a full refund (very honourable those Japanese). After that I stuck to the SEIKO 5 Automatics TV models and for a couple of years it took over me but the timing was right because as I began to question my materialist leanings, the 6119-5000s started to dry up so I think I may have the largest collection but it's very hard to verify.

There's no advantage to me posting about the watches as any price rises affect me too but I do believe everyone should have a 1968 to 80's automatic SEIKO 5 as they are diminishing in availability and represent a unique view into human nature and global mass production of the most complex of mechanism by one manufacturer worn on most humans at any one time and forever too.

I don't buy watches to make money. I buy them out of love for the design, mass manufacturing and a never again repeatable episode in most moving parts.

Keep Talking Just For Fun

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000

Look At Me Trallez

cefrith@hotmail.com (Charles Edward Frith) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:25:00 +0000