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Another tiring day.   Struggled to wake this morning, forced myself up, and breakfasted on a stale roll.  Some folks have less than this of ...

The 6th day of April is the day we commemorate the day the music died!  On that date in 1974 the 'Eurovision Song Contest,' which at...

Being the 'silly season,' the holiday time when politics and politicians are unusually quiet, the media has been desperate for somet...

Now I am all for warm weather. Where I come from it is always good to see it, we saw it so rarely up there.  Down here in this xenophobic na...

Amazon Most are aware of the Nazi's long and ultimately failed siege of Leningrad during the Second World War.  Few go into the det...

It's been a busy and tiring week.  The virus tried to kill me at the start when enduring the museum meeting, then a day's work th...

Saturday morn saw me wandering about with a bank card in my hand.  I had decided to spend money on a decent mattress after all.  No chasi...

Each morning I wake, look out at the clear blue sky (no really) and find my head filled with music I do not wish to hear.  There has bee...

The exhibition goes over the 60's 70's and 80's, three dramatic decades for those who lived through them all, not always enjo...

Today I elected to board the 12:08 Zimmer Bus but for reasons beyond comprehension the bus left exactly on time meaning I missed it!  S...

        Music to make the head think and the heart leap!  

It was a long day at the museum, made longer by listening to the WW2 music CDs we had to play for the exhibition.  I now sit her...

Lee appears to think this song fits, I wonder why...? Life Gets Tee-jus, Don't It The sun comes up and the sun goes down Th...

Difficult to say what is the biggest news item today.  Is it the plane crash costing around 150 lives or the sacking of Jeremy Clarkso...

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'Stranger on the Shore' is one of those melodies that were first heard in the early 60's and remain in the head for eve...

Another Sunday comes near its end and my mind is empty.  I wore it out emoting today and there is little left once darkness falls and...

So what is it about music?   Chicken Shack perform the type of music that made a joy of my youth, the youth in question being me by ...