I have a garden of roses. Most are David Austin Heritage Roses aka OLD Roses. You know – the ones that fleetingly flower but those few precious days/weeks give you a fragrance and a bloom that fills your heart and soul with loving wonder at the glory of nature. When horses stopped being the premier… Read More Roses Grow Best in Shit : The Emperor’s New Clothes
In a few days this blog will revert back to March 2022 – or so my subscription cancellation said. Whatever. Que Sera, Sera, It’s been an interesting 6 years. Not altogether pleasant but that’s all past and gone. The greatest lessons learned have been : TRUTH is just a word, not a soul-deep need to… Read More The Winner Takes It ALL
I’m so bored with finding new stuff which is actually OLD stuff to me. Hides? Dido? Carthage? A measure of land? It’s the same old theme. MONEY. That’s ALL people want. William the Bastard Conqueror spent a lot of “money” to send people around his newly conquered lands to find out how much “money” we… Read More 1066 vs 1086 : The DOOMSDAY Book is Being Rewritten
I’ve just come across the most incredible quote from Homer’s Odyssey : “There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” Real life experience has taught me this one TRUTH. Seeing eye to eye is not always… Read More The Way Old Friends Do
This is such a sad song. Abba were big/famous/fabulous and USED. They wrote this song to highlight what it was really like in their world. This one and I’m a Marionette. Pay Day for us today. We have enough to pay the bills, buy food (carefully) but not enough to buy oil to run the… Read More GET ON THE CAROUSEL
To this day it stuns me when Rapping Black Americans find Abba. This band saved my teenage self. When life was bad, music helped. From Abba to Sex Pistols to Mozart to Marc Bolan to Thin Lizzy to The Carpenters to Blondie to Beethoven. Hole in Your Soul? We all have a gaping hole in… Read More Hole In YOUR Soul?
I’m hearing the phrase On and On and On used so many times now. Let’s go back to a young girl with a “vintage” cassette player listening to Abba when she’s meant to be doing her school homework. The parentals, the teachers, on and on and on they yakked. Slime in this ear. Slime in… Read More ABBA – On And On And On
I’ve been watching these two videos over the past few days and remembering. Remembering being able to decorate my bedroom as a teenager. Dad helped me. It was purple and white. Remembering listening to ABBA on cassette. Remembering every time I felt down and worthless, turning to ABBA songs. Remembering moving up here in 1999… Read More ABBA : When More Become One
I’ve never made any secret about my love for Abba. Most see that as very sad but whenever we had parties here, the kids would always put Abba on the sound system (usually Dancing Queen) and bop like it’s 1970something. We even travelled to New York so mother-in-law and I could watch Mamma Mia on… Read More Tribal People React to ABBA For The First Time
Britain’s GREATEST TRAITOR. Allegedly. Did he belong to MI6 or MI7?
…is summed up in this little wooden block that we’ve had in our kitchen for well over a decade. Yeah. Bad photo. Whatever. The two brass frogs were a gift from my husband when our boys were tiny. They are now hulking men in their 30’s. Dancing Queen. OMG. From the Tattershall Youth Club aged… Read More My Philosophy on Life…
The Loser’s standing small. Agnetha NEVER sang this song live. The true emotions that she felt in the recording studio that came out in her voice – she could never replicate. This song was too personal to her and Bjorn. My boys bought me the Abba Gold cd back in 1999. They knew of my… Read More THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
I was/am/always will be an ABBA fan. This music saved me so many times. I even went to New York to watch Mamma Mia on Broadway. Cry? Me? Thank you for the music :o)
Abba Quote : I’m hearing images, I’m seeing songsNo poet has ever paintedVoices call out to me, straight to my heart I’m a man who’s been hurt a little too muchAnd I’ve tasted the bitterness of my own tearsSadness is all my lonely heart can feel I can’t stand up for falling downI can’t stand… Read More MUSIC Saves Us
Ah! Compliments. You’re looking radiant today, darling WTF? After 3 nights of disjointed sleep. You could pass for a teenager with those long, luscious legs Don’t give me that gorgeous smile of yours every time you say something bad I Know Him So Well!!!! P.S. I have a headache and it’s not Christmas yet, love.… Read More Ruy Lopez Opening : My World!
What price would you pay for peace and joy? Do you even want P & J? The English series of The Magic Roundabout was written and narrated by Oscar-Winning Emma Thompson’s Dad. It always played at 5.55pm in the UK. Just before the BBC 6 o’clock News. Every dang thing these days is a carousel.… Read More I Left The Circus To Join Peace & Joy
Those glorious, wonderful people at Tesco (?!) sent me some money off vouchers today so I went mad in the aisles and bought porcini mushrooms and a huge bag of arborio rice. There is something so relaxing about cooking a risotto. I can take a good half hour or more just stood, standing, stirring. Watching… Read More And….R E L A X : Porcini Risotto
I instinctively understand this. I FEEL it. But I’m neither a singer nor a musician. For me, personally, Frida and Agnetha show everything. One Voice + One Voice = The Third Voice. M’eh. An expert can explain this TRINITY. But F1RST…..
Finchley Central. End of. The Game is a mental game where the objective is to avoid thinking about The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must be announced each time it occurs. It is impossible to win most versions of The Game. Depending on the variation of The Game, the whole world, or all… Read More What is The AIM (Name) of THE GAME?
This speaks so deeply to me. I did not have a happy childhood. The only things that kept me sane were my alone time, my books, my crafts and my younger brothers. I was more of a mother to them than Mum. Don’t get me wrong. I forgive my late parents and love them and… Read More Easy Target : Me!
Hogmanay. Auld Lang Syne. A truly pertinent time of MY life. As never before :o)
She was meant to be here with me today or tomorrow or by this weekend. But it isn’t happening. POUT! OMG : If she was here today we’d totally upset this sleepy village until the early hours with both Abba and Robbie Williams….we have previous convictions for this! Anyway. Sigh. Lower lip tremble. Que sera,… Read More The Return of Abba and Two Travellers-in-Crime
A whiles back, I was participating in a Globe Lie Tour Live chat and I commented that I was being trolled on my blog. Karen B (famous FE name) asked me why. I answered because I’d just posted an Abba song called Disillusion written and sung by Agnetha. 21st of November 2019 : Disillusion On… Read More On & On & On
One Voice. One Voice. Third Voice. Harmony. Is NOT everyone singing the same note, pitch, sound. It’s a MIX of voices all blending together to make perfection ?
FACT : Abba had 3 female voices. Frida. Agnetha. Frida / Agnetha together. Some singers have a natural talent for harmonisation. These two had it in SPADES. I Still Have Faith in You times 2 I’m thinking that Frida starts this. She is Mezzo-Soprano. Much deeper than Agnetha’s full soprano.
A strange combo here :o)
FACT :o) Thank you for the music. I’m in total AWE of ALL musicians and always have been. I missed that gene :o(
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