…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…
‘New Beginnings’ is surely an appropriate theme for Song Lyric Sunday on New Year’s Day and this is a song worth listening to any day of the year. Yes, this is about new beginnings, but it’s also about continuity and that’s equally important. “(Just Like) Starting Over” Our life together is so precious together, We…
‘Post a Holiday song that best describes you during the holiday season’ is this week’s challenge for Song Lyric Sunday. Not easy: I can’t think of any songs about relaxing, eating well and watching the box. Or even a bracing country walk. Or getting over a heavy cold. I have to say that this was…
“You take the grey skies out of my way You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day” Bet you didn’t see this one coming. After a steady diet of late sixties and early seventies teenage angst, just for a change I thought to hell with the street cred, lets go Top Twenty and bang…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme of ‘needing someone’ is certainly open to interpretation: needing help, needing love….or just needing: and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s time for some Leonard Cohen: Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want…
Honestly, you wait weeks on end for a new post, and then they all come along together… It has to be said that waste management is pretty well organised here in France. As a matter of course everyone recycles their plastic, glass and paper into the relevant coloured bins at the local déchetterie – and…
Does it not strike you as odd that the expression ‘He’d be late for his own funeral’ is used as a criticism of somebody’s timekeeping? It mean, it’s hardly fair to criticise the stiff in question, since presumably by that stage all matters relating to punctuality will be out of their own hands and down…
“And I can break away to the better life Where the shackles never hold me down” Who doesn’t like the Beach Boys? It’s almost impossible not to buy into the feelgood that comes from those matchless harmonies. So here’s ‘Break Away’: an upbeat song about changing life for the better, to help Helen with her…
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