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January Day Out
When having a Day Out in January the most important thing is to be flexible. Of course I could have said the most important thing is hot coffee, knowing where the loos are or a decent picnic. We set off … Continue reading
Dancing
Perhaps this post should be entitled Having Fun or Decadent Afternoon. In any case it was a new experience for me to go to a Tea Dance. To be honest it was all a bit of a rush, but turned … Continue reading
Pre-Birthday Month
Yes, I’m starting to gear up for a Pre-Birthday-Month this year. HBTW didn’t look at all surprised this morning when I announced that I needed some cheering up. Usually, come March -(the actual Birthday Month) I start to enjoy finding … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday Month, Elvis, Guy Mitchell, ipo, James Blunt, MP3, music, popular songs, Pre-Birthday-Month
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Michael Buble
This is the music of the moment – I can’t get it out of my head for some reason. It’s really strange when that happens. It reminds me of long ago when life was one long soundtrack. I was watching … Continue reading
Music
I have been enjoying using spotify to listen to some new music. First of all find a young person – probably one plugged into earphones and an ipod – and find out what music they like. Then, listen to some … Continue reading
The Season known as Christmas
So – is this the Christmas season or is it not? Technically, as far as churches are concerned this is Advent (lit the coming) and purists will tell us that this is when they concentrate on the second coming of … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, cd, celebrity, love, Michael Buble, music, nativity, Prayer, spirituality, tragedy
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A Sweet Obscurity
This has been sitting on my “to read” shelves for some time – presumably it got there by recommendation or book review. I’m glad it did, though must admit that it is not an easy read. I got through to … Continue reading
Feel good factor
So far it is proving remarkably easy to have Birthday Month treats each day. Yesterday’s was in the form of a DVD. Mr Holland’s Opus has to be on my list of favourite feel-good films – the kind of film … Continue reading
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Tagged composer, High School, inspiration, life-skills, Mr Holland's Opus, music, Richard Dreyfus, spirituality, teaching
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