This is an oldie but a goodie and one I’ve done before, although I don’t think I blogged about it. I found it as one of those old ‘notes’ on Facebook from about 4 years ago! It’s weird how some songs just ‘fit’. It’s also weird that I have Elvis Presley in my music collection…..…
Once upon a time I lived on Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Have a look at this promo video: I also bring you the Andrews Sisters – from 1947
I thought I’d go looking for the songs that were topping the Australian charts in the Christmas week for each of the years my 3 kids were born. What were my babies listening to over their first Christmas? It’s actually not as easy to find this out as I thought it would be – finally…
I did a Facebook status thing today that went like this (sort of, I’ve amended the words a bit): 1) Discover the #1 single in your country of origin in the week you were born; 2) Find it on YouTube; 3) Post it in a blog post without shame. After a bit of searching…
I did this last year towards the end of the Blog Every Day in June challenge & I think it’s worth doing again to remind myself that I do other than just blog! So, here’s a list of 30 things I’ve done this month other than write blog posts: 1. Went to Canberra to visit…
I don’t know much about music, but I know what I like and I’m always happy to try something new. I usually have music going via the ipod and earphones at some point during my working day and try to use this time to listen to a whole album, rather than shuffle my entire collection.…
The past 2 or 3 years has seen me at more live music venues than the previous 40 years put together (if you don’t count school choirs & eistedfodds. Or churches.). One side-effect of a marriage breakdown is the ‘every second weekend with no kids’ thing. This meant suddenly I had time on my hands…
For anyone who’s known me for very long it’s admittedly probably odd for you that I went to a Metallica concert last night and even weirder that I had such a great time. I mean, I listen to ABC radio for heavens sake, 702, Radio National and Classic FM. My interest in expanding my musical…
Inspired by @bonitoclub’s excitement at discovering Julia Gillard was a knitter, I thought I’d share some answers to the same questions our PM was asked this week. I’ve modified it a bit as the political/patriotic questions at the end didn’t do much for me: What are the five albums you couldn’t do without? Dream Theater…
The gorgeous picture of the grizzly bear lying sleeping on the log that is at the top of this blog comes from National Geographic (there, I’ve acknowledged the source). This is the full picture: I have Google desktop set up at work and one of the nifty little widgety, gadgety things that I have sitting…
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