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A Song Lyric Sunday Reprise

Have you noticed how WordPress has started dropping reminders of posts we had made on this day in previous years? One of today’s for me was from 4 June 2023, which was clearly a Sunday as I posted for Song Lyric Sunday that day. This was a post I enjoyed very much, and from the level of likes and comments it attracted it seems that I wasn’t alone in that. So for this week’s midweek offering I…

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Tuesday Tunes 306: Still Easy

    Having indulged myself last week with a set of easy songs I thought I’d do it again today. I have quite a list of these, so we could be here a while! These are the usual mixed bunch, a bit of loud and a bit less so. Let’s get started with a loud one: Uriah Heep, with Easy Livin’ – one of their best known songs. Uriah Heep formed in London in 1969 and are still going today, though guitarist…

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SLS: The Size Of A Cow

  This week’s Song Lyric Sunday invitation is to play a song about grass, cows, beef, condiments, fries or fast food, as Jim tells us in his post Celebrating International Burger Day. 28 May was the day for this, also known (less ostentatiously) as National Hamburger Day in the US – perhaps recognising that not everywhere in the world celebrates this, like here in the UK, for example. We enjoy…

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Sunshine - Blogger And Weather

A few weeks ago Stevie Turner kindly nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. As you can see from her post, if you scroll to the end of the comments you’ll note that I thanked her but said that I didn’t normally do these award things. However, as Stevie is a long time supporter of my blog I said I would give it some thought. Having done so I have decided not to do a proper job of it, but to…

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Tuesday Tunes 305: Easy

  As the counter at the top tells you, I have been running this series for quite a while – just over six years, in fact – and I cannot believe that I have never chosen today’s theme for one of these posts. It is part of the name of my blog – borrowed from a favourite song – and there are loads of songs with it in their title. So, for what will definitely be the first but not the last time, I give…

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SLS: Like A Song On The Radio

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday Jim is inviting us to play ‘a song that expresses appreciation for music, singing, the radio.’ His post Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day tells more. This yet another of those ‘national days’ so beloved by our American friends. I’m just glad that Jim didn’t set us a theme last month for National Pick Your Nose Day! It was 23 April, if you missed it. One song…

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New Music May 2026

  I have on several occasions shared with you a selection of new music that I have been listening to on YouTube, and as the most recent of those was four months ago it feels like time for another. There is no theme for these: they are simply a set of music videos that have been published in the past few weeks that I have enjoyed, and hope you will too. They are a bit of a mix, but what else would…

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Tuesday Tunes 304: Wrong Again

  After sidetracking last week for an important theme for me I thought I’d return to where I left off, with a second set of wrong songs. As I said before, there don’t seem to be as many of these as there are for right, and two of today’s set of six even have that in their title too! That doesn’t stop these being good tunes, though, and even if you don’t like them all I sure do! These are album…

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SLS: Telephone Numbers

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, as he tells us in his post with a very long title, Jim is inviting us to play a song that mentions a telephone or any other type of communication device. That would seem to rule out traditional English folk music, wouldn’t it, as Ye Olde iPhone didn’t exist. And I don’t know many songs about smoke signals, or two tin cans connected by string. So instead of…

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Five Years Ago

When I was putting together this week’s Tuesday Tunes post, which took as its starting point a piece I wrote four years ago, it struck me that many current readers may not have seen much of my back catalogue. I did a bit of digging around and found a Tuesday Tunes offering from this week in 2021 which felt like it was worth sharing again, so that’s what I’m doing for this week’s midweek post.…

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Tuesday Tunes 303: For MHAW

I’m doing something a little different this week for Tuesday Tunes. Here in the UK this week – 11 to 17 May – is Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) and I know that in the US May is Mental Health Awareness Month. I regularly post for this, and thought it might be a good idea to combine it into my regular Tuesday offering by editing and reworking a piece I wrote some years ago. Long, long ago,…

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SLS: When Our Time Has Come

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday Jim has given us what must rank at first sight as his strangest prompt yet: to play a song about a bike, asparagus, strawberries, eggs, mental health, the elderly or the military. I needed his post Special Awareness Events to explain where that unlikely mixture came from – apparently it is a selection of those special days so beloved by Americans that take…

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SLS: When Our Time Has Come

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday Jim has given us what must rank at first sight as his weirdest prompt yet: to play a song about a bike, asparagus, strawberries, eggs, mental health, the elderly or the military. I needed his post to explain where that strange mixture came from! I’ve chosen three songs for today, two from one of my usual suspects related to the theme of ageing, and one by…

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A Classic Album 8

One of the occasional series I have run over the past few years has been my A Classic Album sets, in which I take an in-depth look at an album that I have loved for many years. Previous ‘winners’ of this accolade have been The Beatles, Steely Dan, George Harrison, Cat Stevens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby Stills and Nash and, most recently, Joni Mitchell, back in February. Three months…

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Tuesday Tunes 302: Wrong

  Having spent a few weeks with songs with right in their title as my Tuesday Tunes theme I thought I’d go for the counterbalance this week, so welcome to a set of wrong songs. At first sight there don’t appear to be as many of these, but I have enough for a few sets and if you’d like to add in your suggestions please feel free to do so. Let’s get going straightaway, shall we? First up this week…

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SLS: Letting In Water

  This week, as has taken to doing this year, Jim is following his pattern of marking the first Song Lyric Sunday of the month by inviting us to play a song written or performed by someone who was born in the month of May. His post Greek Goddess Maia tells all. I have found a website that details births on a day by day basis, and having consulted it for this month I find that I am rather spoiled…

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Happy May Day!

  I thought I’d slip in an extra little post this week, to celebrate May Day – today, if you hadn’t noticed. This is actually a reprise of what I posted last year, which itself was a slightly expanded version of the post I made in 2024. I’ve never been one to shy away from recycling! This is where I started, by setting out my credentials for having a university degree in English Literature with a…

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