Amelia Earhart

Greetings Worlds - Are you turning nicely ?!

Ok - it's a Thursday morning here in England - the Sun is out, the sky is blue etc etc ... all is well with this little part of England.  Well, sort of - I've been in bed most of the last couple of days... nothing too major, I needed to 'get away' for a while & the bed won !!

So - why Australia ?!  Why not ?!  It's just me having a bit of fun really !!  Hee-hee.  No really, Australia is one country that I have not had any 'log ins' from.... so, I decided to drop a hint, to see if anybody caught on & said "Hello" - so far... I've had no takers... never mind !!

The music of the moment is the Allman's 'A & R Studio's' show I got a few weeks back..... I had two copies of the same Cd & found this one earlier today... so, I decided to unwrap it & give it a play !!  It might be from 1971, but - it's well good !!  If you get chance, pick up a copy !!

So - that's the music of the moment.... I don't have any Zeppelin concerts from April 12th - there will be more, just none from today.  As for the family.....

... well, B has just gone down to the Dr's surgery, for a meeting.  She belongs to a group, which works out different things for the practice.  Anyhoo, she won't be home for a couple of hours or so....  J is upstairs working on his computer & ME is upstairs, getting very excited !!

The reason for the latter is quite simple - she gets her new car tomorrow !!  All this week, we have had to live with a sort of 'count down' of the days !!  That's not exactly true - we have a had a countdown of the nights !!

Every day - we have heard X number of "sleeps to I get my car".  This morning, there is only one sleep to go.
It's all good fun & I know how excited she is about it all..... it's her second car & the newest one she has ever had !!  Bless her !!

The guys at our local garage have given it a check over & they say it's in good order....... so, here's hoping it will last her a goodly while !!  A little later, B & her are going to give Chester (her old cars name) a good clean thru..... it needs it - if nothing else, to get all the Cd's out of the thing !!  How they survive in that mess, I've no idea !!

Talking of Chester (the car) - ME has started parking it on the road, instead of in the drive way.  By 'drive way' - I mean the little bit of a path we have, that leads to the garage.  The new car probably won't fit (up the path) - so, to get the neighbours used to another car being on the road, Chester has spent the last few nights nose to nose with our wreck !!

If nothing else, it's given 'the neighbour from hell' something different to moan about !!  Last night, she was pacing out in the road - you could see her measuring how far ME's car was from her path !!  She can't really moan - it's no closer than our car used to be - Chester has just taken our place in the street & we've moved back a bit more into our parking bay.  It's all good fun really - it really is.....

Tomorrow there will be a black car there & Chester will have gone to his 'new' home.... wherever that might turn out to be !!  It'll be 'sad' to see her first car go - but, the new one will be much better for her.

The music has just changed to 'One World, One Voice'..... It came out years ago & it's about 50 minutes long, with different people taking sections of of the music...... it's quite good, tho' I would like a better copy of it - mine is well old & scratched !!  I have looked for copies, but I've only ever found one & I'm playing that as I type !!

I mentioned 'tomorrow' - well, also (apart from changing cars) ME has to print out her final chunk of work for Uni....... as it's expected to be about 60 pages long, I've put new ink in the printer & found all the white paper I have !!  It would be a bummer to start printing & have to stop - to go into town - and buy fresh ink !!  I just hope we have enough paper - she is talking about doing two copies !!  That will be interesting...... it'll take all day - my printer is not that fast, when it comes to lots of work !!  It's fine for what I do..... but......

B & I were talking earlier.... hopefully the 'Tea bag' package will reach America this week !!  Lady V is heading down to Florida, to the Wanee concerts, so it might reach her while they are away.... but, as long as it gets there safely, we don't mind !!  We actually posted it a week ago today - so, by now, it's probably two thirds of the way across the big pond !!  The pigeon we used wasn't very strong, so it'll need to rest part ways !!

Talking of flying pigeons - I'm reading an old book at the moment, about Amelia Earhart... the lady who set loads of flying records & then 'vanished' somewhere over the Pacific in 1937.... which I think is just coming up on 75 years ago.  I got this book out of our library store - I'm probably the first person to have it in years !
The book was published in 1966.... it's old, but a good read all the same.  I'll see if I can find some newer ones on the subject..... I like 'history' & books like this are well good !!

Right - my plans for today..... I don't (as usual) have any !!  When I finish typing, I'll probably just read some more of the book.... and that's about it really !!  Such an exciting day !!  Anyway - until next time...

Bye Bye