Only an hour to go before the new series of Poldark...

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The original BBC adaptation back in the mid 1970s was one of my absolute favourite Sunday evening dramas. :-)

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Was reminded of a song this morning when Kiki Dee was interviewed on BBC Breakfast:

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Ah! Those wistful teenage years... those hideous high-waisted trousers, and the hours spent attempting to tame a badly cropped, unconditioned mane into a fashionable bob with only my mother's ancient single-speed Morphy Richards hand-held dryer plus a bristly ( Read more... )

Think that I need to make time to try to listen to this Tom Stoppard radio play based around the famous Pink Floyd album of my youth, The Dark Side of the Moon. I spent way too much time lying around listening to this music in my early teens. Broadcast on Monday evening, and involving the lovely Bill Nighy, Rufus Sewell and Adrian Scarborough ( Read more... )

Birthday greetings to a childhood favourite. Yes, apparently Sooty is 65 today! Somewhere in the depths of a cupboard resides my very own near threadbare Sooty hand puppet. I can still remember the exciting day when my mother bought him for me in a department store. My Sooty must be quite an age himself... probably around 45 years young. :-)) Here' ( Read more... )

I hate myself for liking this. I don't even know who Olly Murs is. To my untrained ears, on first hearing the song some time ago I thought that it might be by Will Young. Despite being fairly formulaic pap, yet it haunts me with feelings of summer in the city, still looking for the elusive love that would last. I'm turning into a sentimental old ( Read more... )

Previous post immediately made me want to hear this surreal but beloved song, recorded by Richard Harris in 1968:

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Had a sudden desire to hear this:

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Reminds me of being on my one and only foreign school trip - skiing in Switzerland, March 1972. We played this non-stop on the hotel juke box and sang along with customised words... He's got it, yeah baby he's got it... Well I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, Georgie Meyer... that being the name of the hotel owner's ( Read more... )

So, the terms for the Scottish Independence referendum were sighed off earlier this month. The surrounding debates rage on. It is frustrating to be disenfranchised, but deep in this article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20048521 written by a fellow expat Scot, remains ( Read more... )

Short preview clip with deep-voiced singing... ( Spoiler alert for Parade's End, Part 1 )