I have been to a couple of funerals in the last couple of weeks. Both very different. One was a biker’s funeral where the music at the service featured early Cliff Richard and Johnny Cash. The other was a Roman Catholic service with lots of hymns and some Irish music, but right at the end […]
Entries from March 4th, 2019
Music to see you off
March 4th, 2019 · Comments Off on Music to see you off · Life, Music
Tags: Death
1991 – Gett Off
March 3rd, 2019 · Comments Off on 1991 – Gett Off · Music
Imagine for a moment that it was not an established (by me) fact that 1979 was the answer, and you were trying to decide what was the best year for popular music and 1991 would surely be one of the top contenders, even if a large part of the year saw Bryan Adams hogging the […]
Tags: 1962Onwards
1990 – Pendant Que Les Champs Brûlent
March 3rd, 2019 · Comments Off on 1990 – Pendant Que Les Champs Brûlent · Music
Honestly, I am not trying to be wilfully obscure by having two years in a row where my track of the year is a foreign language song that never troubled the UK charts or consciousness. This is all about the songs that soundtracked my life, and my life involved a lot of dabbling in European […]
Tags: 1962Onwards
Diet madness
March 2nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Diet madness · Life
Everybody seems to be doing some faddish diet or other at the moment, but the one our son is doing is really getting to me. It is a high-protein diet with no carbs, which seems to be entirely meat and eggs. A typical packed meal to take to work is grilled chicken breasts and gammon […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
