Mr Puck-tin & "Shit Happens" !!

Greetings World's !!

I've been a bit tardy & I've not written anything for a couple of days !! I'm very sorry about that - but, as mentioned on Tuesday (I think) I had a very hectic day, on Wednesday... which kind of spilled over into Thursday - more of that later !!

First tho' - the family !!

As I type, B is behind me, talking to Archie - and letting the outside (cold) air in !! I'm only wearing a t-shirt.... so, I need to find my winter tops, if this goes on much longer !! I've just asked her, to close the door the door...... bad move on my part !!

As for the other members of the clan..... J is still in Wales & ME is working an early this morning - so, I guess she will be home a little later. As for as I know - she is still moving into her new house, with boyfriend M.... at the end of this month, but I'm not sure of the
details !!

As for my good self - well, I'm now wearing a woolly jumper, to keep out the cold & I'm sat here, listening to Jimi Hendrix - playing 'Foxy Lady'... as performed by him, at the Isle Of Wight festival, in 1970.....

To explain - a little !!

I've been listening to the 'Dutch Woodstock' Cd's.... and, as the Isle Of Wight festival happened the same year, I decided to give those Cd's a listen as well. One thing that is certainly obvious - the sound quality is 100% better !! Oh well..... the tracks on the Ilse Of Wight discs are:

CD 1

  1) All Right Now - Free
  2) My Sunday Feeling - Jethro Tull
  3) Suzanne - Leonard Cohan
  4) Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
  5) Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
  6) Can't Keep From Crying - Ten Years After
  7) Me & Bobby McGee - Kris Krisstofferson
  8) Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
  9) Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
10) Blue Rondo etc - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
11) When The Music's Over - The Doors

CD 2

  1) Young Man's Blues - The Who
  2) Naked Eye - The Who
  3) There'll Always Be An England - Tiny Tim
  4) Sinner Boy - Taste
  5) Let It Be - Joan Baez
  6) Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues
  7) Catch The Wind - Donovan
  8) Weaver's Answer - Family
  9) Red Eye Express - John Sebastian
10) Call It Anything - Miles Davis
11) Amazing Grace - Great Awakening
12) Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

Ok - before anybody jumps on me, from a great height - Bob Dylan's track is a studio thing.... he wasn't at this festival, having played there in 1969. As for the rest of it - well, it was billed as 'The First Great Festival of the 1970's' and, in a way - I guess it was, but it was really a dumb thing to do !!

First of all, the festival site - it was on level ground, under a mother of a hill !! So - people just camped out, on the hill & listened to the music for free.... why pay, when the whole thing is laid out before you ?!

Plus - no matter how hard it tried.... it will always be compared to that other great festival....Woodstock...... and one of it's biggest failings is trying too hard, to match up to that "3 days Of Love & Music" !! It was always going to fail, on that part.... oh well !! It's all music - so, what the heck !!

 Moving on....

I've decided to take over my neighbours back garden !! We could use the space & if Puck-tin can take over The Crimea, why shouldn't we take over a bit of garden ?! Ok - I'm only joking !!

But - I'm not joking when I say that I'm glad the World, outside of the Russian Federation, is sticking up for the people of the Ukraine & is actually hurting the people around Mr Puck-tin !! I would hope, given time, the World will stand up a bit taller & hurt Mr Puck-tin himself, just a little more !!

As The Crimea is now a part of the Russian Federation, I hope - more than anything - that the people, of that fine area of the World, do not regret what they have wished for !! Ok - I know holding a referendum, under the thread of guns, is hardly a referendum at all........ but, you got it folks, now live with it !!

In the meantime - I will be on my ways. Oh I forgot..... about Wednesday !!

B got me up really early & we drove the 50 miles South-West of here, to the fine City of Exeter & the hospital there.... well, one of them !! My appointment was somewhere around 11am or so & much to my surprise - I went in early.

I met a new doctor, to me.... who's name I forget...... and, in a nut-shell, he might be able to help me, but - I get the impression - he doesn't know how to go about doing it !! Being as I live in one County and the hospital is in another, this causes a problem - one, which I would of thought, he would of considered before getting me out of bed - sooooo early - and making drive down to see him !!

So - I still have a hole in my back & maybe something will get done about it.... time will tell & as they say.... "Shit Happens" !!

I will away now..... I thank you all, for logging in & reading my words, I look forward to writing some more, maybe tomorrow, time will tell ...... until next time...

Bye Bye