In the more than four years that I’ve been (sporadically) writing this blog, I’ve owned up to a lot of things that I never thought I would impart to another living soul. Although if you saw my stats, you’d probably tell me not to worry, because I haven’t told anyone. On the same principle that…
C’mon now: I was born and grew up on Merseyside. My age reached double figures in the early sixties. The B in my Music Lexicon could only possibly be The Beatles. There again, it’s pretty much beyond me how anyone could fail to pick out The Beatles in any review of their popular musical tastes…
Most people who know me would agree that I’m of a generally calm, nay taciturn, mien. In Dad’s Army terms, I’m more Sergeant Wilson than Corporal Jones: So this latest offering in WordPress’ 365 Days of Writing Prompts held few fears for me when I first approached it: “In a crisis. Honestly evaluate the way…
As soon as I saw this week’s theme – the parent/child relationship – two possibilities sprang to my mind. However, as I featured John Lennon only a couple of weeks ago, ‘Mother’ was out. Plus it’s not exactly life-affirming (although obviously always worth a listen). So it had to be this. Brent Mydland was the…
Can I write a post about ice cream? Well, I can try. Do you want to read a post about ice cream? That, gentle reader, is entirely up to you. All I would say is that blogs, like ice cream, come in an ever-increasing variety of flavours and, also like ice cream, if you don’t…
Helen’s latest Song Lyric Sunday prompt over at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time was inspired by the weather. Well, it’s been a bit chilly over here in France for the past few days, and although we’ve missed the worst of it, yesterday’s -5°C was plenty cold enough for us, thank you…
In the Christian calendar, today – January 6th – is the feast of the Epiphany., marking the day that the Three Kings turned up at the stable with the gold, frankincense and myrrh. More recently, it’s become the day you’re supposed to take down the decorations. On a still more secular level, however, the word…
…is paved with good intentions’ as somebody once said. Given that it’s that time of year, but also bearing in mind that we’ve already established that I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions, I thought I might at least to set down some intentions, blog-wise, for the coming year. At least it makes a…
I confess to having been rather behind the curve on Bryan Adams. In fact I don’t think I’d even heard of him – or anything by him – until his big, gloopily sentimemtal hit ‘Everything I Do’ got a huge amount of radio play and spent 16 consecutive weeks at Number One in the UK…
Isn’t it handy that there are 26 letters in the alphabet and 52 weeks in the year? If my arithmetic is correct (it is), that means one letter for every fortnight. So here’s the plan. Every two weeks, working my way through the alphabet, I’m going to publish a post about a group or artiste that…
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