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- Sorry Nigel Farage – Talking Books loved ‘Talking France’…
- Talking crime – on why we love a good murder mystery….
- Let’s focus on the words: Peter, Tony, and a Portrait of Keats
- Why Mrs T should have left the room quietly, closing the door behind her….
- ‘In relation to’ what? On ‘Talking Books’ and chewing words….
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Category Archives: Music
Lets focus on the day job….On life coaching, creativity & the local economy
There are very few writers, even those with published work on the shelf, who can say that they earn a living wage solely from that writing. A few articles, the novel-in-progress or in my case the fund-raising anthology don’t pay the mortgage. … Continue reading
Jake Thackray – a genius….. and a genealogist?
Having felt a little in need of cheering up recently and browsing the wonderful Spotify I quite randomly came across The Best of Jake Thackray. His biography describes him as a ‘singer-songwriter in the French tradition’ firmly rooted in the … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Music
Tagged Family History, Jake Thackray, Mood, Music, nostalgia
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A very merry NoWriggling Christmas!!
This time last year I wrote a post wishing all those good enough to give No more wriggling out of writing their time a very merry Christmas, celebrating the fact that I had been blogging for a whole five months. … Continue reading
Contemporising Keats – It isn’t all about the words….
I have a GoogleAlert which regularly sends me links to items that relate (even obliquely it seems) to John Keats and yesterday it included a link, not only to my recent post Blog infidelity, but to the following video that … Continue reading
Wordsworth, Whistler and a Waterloo Sunset – the beauty of London Bridges
The Thames is a river that takes me on imaginative journeys, some of them reflecting my real life and others a dream world that I have inhabited regularly since I left London in the late 1980s. From the Oxfordshire … Continue reading
Singing your own song….
You’re dreaming. Someone has asked you, a complete novice, to sing at a festival in front of thousands of people. Live, with a band. What song would you choose to sing in public? (given the necessary vocal talent of course). … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Random musings on family life, love the universe and everything
Tagged dreams, Mood, Music, Portishead, singing
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The Eurovision Song Contest – you’re awful, but I like you….
A cheesy title for a cheesy subject, but I couldn’t resist it. I have just been out to buy a lot of nibbles and a lot more alcohol and tomorrow from 8pm this household is going to par -tay. Seriously … Continue reading
The pull of the Undertow. Genesis, Supertramp and a response to Him Up North
Inspired by Him Up North of The Blog up North I have returned to my occasional foray into the world of popular music. In a post entitled ‘They taught me how to be logical. Bastards‘ he discusses how one song … Continue reading
Vanity thy name is Suzanne.. or how a name can inspire great music
Well it is coming up to Christmas, and if we weren’t snowed in we would be in party mode by now. The cancellation of my Christmas work do yesterday left me at home listening to favourite Christmas songs and checking … Continue reading
