Wasn't sure if the mushy peas etc were in the bins or if you were supposed to sit in bins to eat them... and is the street sweeper there to clean up after you or to add to the ambience?
Today has felt long, I was up at 6.30am as it was N's first day at high school. I spent two hours (well nearly) sitting in Ottakars cafe working out what songs to put in my top 100 songs of all time.
To begin with I thought that I was going to find it difficult but now I realise that it is hard to just have 100. The hard bit is who to leave out. I also can't decide whether to have a general hundred or to do it in order of favourites. I think it has to be in order but that is hard too as favourites change...
I will put it in my blog eventually but I need to work on it a bit more first and put the songs in order. But I can tell you that Bob Dylan is in there as are Van (the man) Morrison, the Smiths, Stevie Wonder and David Bowie. i say no more!
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Monday, September 05, 2005
Just Stretching my Wings
I feel a bit like this cormorant today, like I need to stretch my wings!
D and I drove to Hertfordshire yesterday and on the way we were listening to tunes that I had put on the MP3 player. I was disturbed to discover that I seem to have lost the ability to play air guitar properly.
True we were in a car, but still that's no excuse. I wonder if you can go to air guitar classes...and if not, why not? It would be a great tension reliever, there could be classes for mums, for businessmen...the possibilities are endless.
I was guitaring along to Sweet child O Mine by Guns n Roses, although sadly we discovered that I had only downloaded 2 thirds of the track!
My Top 5 Air Guitar Bands
1) Rush
2) Led Zeppelin
3) Guns n Roses
4)Deep Purple
5) Lynyrd Skynyrd
hmm feel like Jimi Hendrix should have been in there but he was more of a boys guitar player.
I have been enjoying revisiting rock greats from my past. I was a real heavy metal biker chick for a while in my teens - heavily (scuse the pun!) into bands like AC DC, Whitesnake, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath and all the bands mentioned above. I must admit though that there have been a couple of bands that I have revisied and thought why? My friend Rae and I were heavily into a band called Girl in the early 80s, I dug their LP out the other day and it is fairly awful. I think part of it was having a band that not everyone else was into. I remember we were thrilled when they made it onto Top of the Pops.
D and I drove to Hertfordshire yesterday and on the way we were listening to tunes that I had put on the MP3 player. I was disturbed to discover that I seem to have lost the ability to play air guitar properly.
True we were in a car, but still that's no excuse. I wonder if you can go to air guitar classes...and if not, why not? It would be a great tension reliever, there could be classes for mums, for businessmen...the possibilities are endless.
I was guitaring along to Sweet child O Mine by Guns n Roses, although sadly we discovered that I had only downloaded 2 thirds of the track!
My Top 5 Air Guitar Bands
1) Rush
2) Led Zeppelin
3) Guns n Roses
4)Deep Purple
5) Lynyrd Skynyrd
hmm feel like Jimi Hendrix should have been in there but he was more of a boys guitar player.
I have been enjoying revisiting rock greats from my past. I was a real heavy metal biker chick for a while in my teens - heavily (scuse the pun!) into bands like AC DC, Whitesnake, Hawkwind, Black Sabbath and all the bands mentioned above. I must admit though that there have been a couple of bands that I have revisied and thought why? My friend Rae and I were heavily into a band called Girl in the early 80s, I dug their LP out the other day and it is fairly awful. I think part of it was having a band that not everyone else was into. I remember we were thrilled when they made it onto Top of the Pops.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
I'm a Tot and you're a Tot, a girls hankering to be a puppet TV Star
Fancy a ride with these three? Well sadly adults are too big to fit on the ride! Shame!
Seriously though, I used to watch Tots TV with N when he was little and I wouldn't mind being Tilly (she's the girl). For a start she has a very alluring French accent, guranteed to turn the boys on. Secondly the Tots live in a beautiful thatched cottage in Suffolk, all they do is play all day and they have a pet squirrel. Tilly also has a magic sack - le sac magique. So you see it could be a pretty good life all in all.
True you would have to put up with those boys Tom and Tiny, but Tilly is in control I think.
It's great how everything in seaside towns is a bit out of date. The arcade machines are things like the empire strikes back, years old but great for retro kids who are into Star Wars. Tots TV was popular in the mid 1990s and a lot of kids now might not even know who they are... although I think they were showing repeats recently.
I like this about those small coastal towns though. I find the datedness oddly comforting, I like the fact that they are not trying to hard and you can just take it or leave it. And of course if there's no other choice we often take it.
I like those 2p arcade machines, although I resisted the temptations of the arcade this time.
5 great things to do in Cromer
1) paddle in the sea
2)visit the second hand book shop and buy a book
3) have crumpets and earl grey tea in a cafe and read your new book
4)take photos
5)ummmm- go home again
Seriously though, I used to watch Tots TV with N when he was little and I wouldn't mind being Tilly (she's the girl). For a start she has a very alluring French accent, guranteed to turn the boys on. Secondly the Tots live in a beautiful thatched cottage in Suffolk, all they do is play all day and they have a pet squirrel. Tilly also has a magic sack - le sac magique. So you see it could be a pretty good life all in all.
True you would have to put up with those boys Tom and Tiny, but Tilly is in control I think.
It's great how everything in seaside towns is a bit out of date. The arcade machines are things like the empire strikes back, years old but great for retro kids who are into Star Wars. Tots TV was popular in the mid 1990s and a lot of kids now might not even know who they are... although I think they were showing repeats recently.
I like this about those small coastal towns though. I find the datedness oddly comforting, I like the fact that they are not trying to hard and you can just take it or leave it. And of course if there's no other choice we often take it.
I like those 2p arcade machines, although I resisted the temptations of the arcade this time.
5 great things to do in Cromer
1) paddle in the sea
2)visit the second hand book shop and buy a book
3) have crumpets and earl grey tea in a cafe and read your new book
4)take photos
5)ummmm- go home again
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Stewpot and Magic Roundabout...
I have been rmembering the awful records that stewpot (Ed Stewart) used to play on children's favourites on radio 1 on a Saturday morning. Can you imagine they wouldn't play stuff for kids on radio 1 now. It wouldn't be cool enough.
Mind you I didn't like most of it and i WAS a kid!
corkers I can remember are:
Little White Bull - Tommy Steele
My Brother - Terry Scott
Camp Grenada
Grandad - Clive Dunn
The Ugly Duckling - Mike Read
Various Rolf Harris numbers
kids today just wouldn't stand for it. Mind you I didn't mind old Rolfy that much, they used to play his records at school along with a creepy LP of Dougal and the Blue Cat,which is from the Magic Roundabout film of the same name. Now that was a CREEPY film! That blue cat was so sinister and scary...
Mind you I didn't like most of it and i WAS a kid!
corkers I can remember are:
Little White Bull - Tommy Steele
My Brother - Terry Scott
Camp Grenada
Grandad - Clive Dunn
The Ugly Duckling - Mike Read
Various Rolf Harris numbers
kids today just wouldn't stand for it. Mind you I didn't mind old Rolfy that much, they used to play his records at school along with a creepy LP of Dougal and the Blue Cat,which is from the Magic Roundabout film of the same name. Now that was a CREEPY film! That blue cat was so sinister and scary...
Meals only and great tunes of the past
Saw this great sign outside a restaurant in Cromer today!
I went to the coast by train, I love train journeys, they are a great time to reflect. There are several things I like to do on train journeys
1) read a novel
2) listen to music
3) write
4) chill out and look at the scenery
I did all of these today except reading a novel. I had spent ages on the PC last night changing the tracks on my MP3 player. You would think that 60 tracks would be enough for anyone wouldn't you but it is actually very hard to choose. However, choose I did eventually, although it was hard and I had to download some new ones that I had read about in High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and in his 31 greatest songs (although I have to say I didn't agree with all of them!)
This got me thinking about my greatest faves and I decided that I would work on my top 100 songs (or maybe 50). So far I have got 30 (watch this space!).
It also got me thinking about how much music has been an influence in my life. When I was younger it was one of the most important things to me. I used to have secret aspirations to be a music journalist when I was younger. I'm not sure that I ever told anyone and of course I had no idea how to go about making this dream a reality. (I sometimes wonder what I could have achieved had anyone taken an interest when I was a teenager).
I used to daydream about writing for NME or melody maker. How cool to get paid for doing something that you enjoy anyway.
My earliest musical memory is being in the kitchen of my childhood home with my mum. My dad had rigged up these speakers so that you could play the stereo in the living room and listen to it in the kitchen and for some reason my mum was playing Like a rubber ball by Bobby Vee and I was singing along, somehow I knew all the words and I remember my mum was really impressed, I was about 4 I think or younger. Why she was listening to Bobby Vee I don't know as that was not her usual type of music.
I also have odd memories of Top of the Pops, which we always watched. Steve Harley sitting on the stage with bare feet, the sinister "Sparks", Pans people dancing to: Monster Mash, Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Dancing with the Captain, and Woa I'm going to Barbados. My brother liked Showaddywaddy and the Wombles and my sister was a fan of Leo Sayer.
There were those records that stayed at number one for weeks though noone seemed to like them - like I am Sailing by Rod Stewart and Mull of Kintyre by Wings, even Bohemian Rhapsody was annoying after six weeks or so at number one!
I found Top of the Pops more interesting as teenager. Videos like Ashes to Ashes, Boys Keep Swinging and I am a DJ by David Bowie were real visual treats, and it was always a thrill when a little known band you were a fan of finally got a TOTP appearence (like Girl or Whitesnake).
I went to the coast by train, I love train journeys, they are a great time to reflect. There are several things I like to do on train journeys
1) read a novel
2) listen to music
3) write
4) chill out and look at the scenery
I did all of these today except reading a novel. I had spent ages on the PC last night changing the tracks on my MP3 player. You would think that 60 tracks would be enough for anyone wouldn't you but it is actually very hard to choose. However, choose I did eventually, although it was hard and I had to download some new ones that I had read about in High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and in his 31 greatest songs (although I have to say I didn't agree with all of them!)
This got me thinking about my greatest faves and I decided that I would work on my top 100 songs (or maybe 50). So far I have got 30 (watch this space!).
It also got me thinking about how much music has been an influence in my life. When I was younger it was one of the most important things to me. I used to have secret aspirations to be a music journalist when I was younger. I'm not sure that I ever told anyone and of course I had no idea how to go about making this dream a reality. (I sometimes wonder what I could have achieved had anyone taken an interest when I was a teenager).
I used to daydream about writing for NME or melody maker. How cool to get paid for doing something that you enjoy anyway.
My earliest musical memory is being in the kitchen of my childhood home with my mum. My dad had rigged up these speakers so that you could play the stereo in the living room and listen to it in the kitchen and for some reason my mum was playing Like a rubber ball by Bobby Vee and I was singing along, somehow I knew all the words and I remember my mum was really impressed, I was about 4 I think or younger. Why she was listening to Bobby Vee I don't know as that was not her usual type of music.
I also have odd memories of Top of the Pops, which we always watched. Steve Harley sitting on the stage with bare feet, the sinister "Sparks", Pans people dancing to: Monster Mash, Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Dancing with the Captain, and Woa I'm going to Barbados. My brother liked Showaddywaddy and the Wombles and my sister was a fan of Leo Sayer.
There were those records that stayed at number one for weeks though noone seemed to like them - like I am Sailing by Rod Stewart and Mull of Kintyre by Wings, even Bohemian Rhapsody was annoying after six weeks or so at number one!
I found Top of the Pops more interesting as teenager. Videos like Ashes to Ashes, Boys Keep Swinging and I am a DJ by David Bowie were real visual treats, and it was always a thrill when a little known band you were a fan of finally got a TOTP appearence (like Girl or Whitesnake).
Thursday, September 01, 2005
When I grow up I want to be an astronaut!
When I grow up there's lots of things I'd like to be ...
a popstar
an artist
a healer
a writer
a photographer
own a restaraunt
run an outdoor nursery
beautiful
happy
a good mum
a barbie doll
a popstar
an artist
a healer
a writer
a photographer
own a restaraunt
run an outdoor nursery
beautiful
happy
a good mum
a barbie doll
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Amazing Skies
It's funny I was so busy tring to take a photo of the hot air balloon that I completely failed to notice the amazing sky. We have had a lot of amazing skies over the past few days. Clouds that are so mountainous and fluffy that you feel that if you could only reach them you could climb up them and have a snooze on the top.
I love these kinds of skies, they make me feel glad to be alive!
I love these kinds of skies, they make me feel glad to be alive!
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