It's A Hard Life Pt 2

Ho - hum and greetings (again) Worlds....

My thanks to my American, English & German friends who have logged on since I wrote this morning !!  It's still a bright day here in this part of England - it actually rained like crazy earlier, but now..... well, it's gone back to being bright & sunny !!

Anyhoo - I'm back again.  Why ?  Well - it's been a funny sort of day !!  I did go back to bed earlier, as predicted, but after a brief sleep I was woken by the hail stones banging off the window... it really was pelting it down !!  So, that spoilt my beauty sleep & I decided to get up & play some more music.... bad mistake !!

Having nothing really 'special' to play - I dug out a Zeppelin bootleg (from under the bed)... that's where a lot of our Cd's live..... and put it into one of the Cd players.  It didn't work !!  Shock, horror & disbelief !!  One of my Cd's didn't play ?!  What is the World coming too !!  So, after a few choice words of encouragement - I tried the same discs in the other machines..... it still didn't work !!  Why ????  What had I done to deserve this injustice ?!  I will never know - I'm guessing I did something wrong in a previous life.....

..... but, there is a light at the end of the tunnel !!  Being a very sad Led Zeppelin collector, I have various copies of some of the shows & - this show - is one I have over & over, in different forms and sorts.  So - I can breathe easy - well, I think I can.

ME is sat watching TV ('Pointless' is on again) - so, when the TV finishes, the music will be switched back on & hopefully the Cd's I have in the machine will play !!  If not - I think a hammer will be needed to bring things back to some kind of normality !!  I will know the answer to this problem in just over 20 minutes.... I bet you are happy (for me) knowing this !!  Never mind............ life will go on !!

It does beg the question - why won't the Cd's play ?  They has no visible scratches or marks... so, that's a puzzle.  I keep all my/our collection in 'safe' conditions.... but, this one has some how got to this point in it's life.  I won't thro' it away - maybe (one day) I will have another Cd player & - hopefully - that might play it !!  Time will tell....... !!

Right - so what else is new ?!  Nothing really.....  B is out to a 'Weight-Watchers' meeting, J is behind me doing the dishes & ME is over to my left watching the afore mentioned 'Pointless' - which is coming to an end very soon..... about 5 minutes or so.  Then it's music time again !!

Just with 'Pointless' - one of the answers featured the poet Coleridge, who stayed here in the village many moons ago & wrote a couple of his more famous works, while he was here..... one of which was brought way back to life, by Iron Maiden.  Well, not really - but.... they did use some of his words.... !!  Oh well...

The Cd player is on and this copy of the bootleg seems to be Ok !!  "Yippppeeeee !!"  The light at the end of the tunnel is truly on and working very brightly !!  I really would of been gutted if it hadn't worked !!  I am now a happy camper !!  I'll be writing about this show in a week or so.... so.... I'll leave it until then to mention the details.  Onwards.......

My plans for tonight are non--existent, again...... I need to sit down & sort out a bunch of DVD's that are here in various boxes.  They are all mixed up & need to be put in some kind of order - or at least marked in some way, so I know what is on what disc & so on !!  I keep meaning to do it - but, something always comes along & I forget to do it !!

The guys have both gone upstairs now - so, the TV is on quiet in the corner of the room...... playing the film of 'Jabberwocky'.  If you've never seen it before - it's a sort of 'Monty Python' film.... that type of humour at least.  It stars Michel Palin & was done by Terry Gilliam.  Check it out - especially the end bit - with Michel Palin bringing the head of the Jabberwocky back to the city, to the sound of 'Pictures At An Exhibition' blasting away in the background !!  Well good........

Just watching it - so many of the actors who were in it have now died !!  I won't list them - but..... so many !!
I guess the film is so old now that a few of them were bound to pass away !!  They were 'old' when they made the film... 25 years later, well - if they are not dead, they must be very old indeed !!

I think I mentioned a book by Fred Goerner, called 'The Search For Amelia Earhart' that I was reading...... well, I finished it a day or two back & it's all very strange !!  I don't recommend it... but, if he is correct in his statements - well, Ms Earhart was working for the US government & was captured by the Japanese before World War 2.

He claims that (the American) Admiral Nimitz told him...".....Earhart & her navigator did go down in the Marshalls (islands) and were picked up by the Japanese".  If this statement is true - where is the evidence to support it ?!  Oh well - it sold books I guess..........  I'm waiting on another book - on the same subject - to see what other ideas are put forward.  I'll let you know !!

Anyhoo - I best away now..... the Zeppelin Cd's are playing nicely in the background & all is well with my little world again....... well, until next time !!

Bye Bye