Out of the mouths of babes..... Ho-hum !!

Greetings World's !!

It's a warmish Saturday, here in the wilds of England !! The weather people, a few days ago, were saying it's been the warmest year, since records were started !! Ok - I must admit - the situation has changed.... but, last Summer - sitting in the hospital, with the windows open & a 12 inch fan blowing over me..... well, I think the Summer was cooler this year !! What do I know.... as I say, the situation has changed !!

Moving right along...

As I type, B is behind me.... doing a bit of housework. I did the dishes & odds & ends... but, B is just finishing things off for us. There are sooooo many/few things that I can do !! I don't mind - when I'm able - doing the dishes... I sit on my little white stool thingy.... it's quite comfortable really !!

Anyhoo - that was all done & dusted, a few minutes or so ago..... now, I'm sat here, listening to a Robert Plant concert - from the 'iTunes Festival'.... I think that's what it was called..... earlier this year - I'm not 100% sure of the date (?)... it's really been a good listen !! My thanks to a friend for sending the DVD to me.... the tracks are:

  1) Turn It Up
  2) Thank You
  3) Spoonful
  4) Black Dog
  5) Rainbow
  6) Going To California
  7) No Quarter
  8) Pocketful Of Golden
  9) Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
10) Funny In My Mind (I Believe Fixin' To Die)
11) Whole Lotta Love
12) Little Maggie

It's strange - in a weird kind of way.... I wasn't really thinking too much, about the concert - I just wanted something, playing in the background, as I was doing the dishes.... however, after a really good version of 'Black Dog' & then onto 'Rainbow' - well, I really started to get into the whole thing !!

I wasn't expecting too much... but, I was really surprised how good it was !! At the moment 'Whole Lotta Love' is playing.... with the 'Who Do You Love' section, stuck in the middle.... well, good !!

I must - at some point - put all of the Robert Plant stuff, that I have around & about the place, onto some form of Cd.... I just have to find everything & sort it all out. Apart from the 2014 stuff - I have some radio broadcasts, going way back thru' various years.... I just need to find them & put them together !! Easier said than done - mainly as I have no real idea, where the various things are !! Oh well.... I'll try & get around to doing it, over the coming months/years - depending how you think about it !!

It's been a good week, for Cd's & concerts.... The Led Zeppelin show, that came earlier in the week, that was a bit of a highlight !! It is another soundboard recording - this time from the Fort Worth show, on May 22nd 1977..... the tracks are:

CD 1

1) The Song Remains The Same
2) Sick Again
3) Nobody's Fault But Mine
4) In My Time Of Dying
5) Since I've Been Loving You
6) No Quarter

CD 2

1) Ten Years Gone
2) Going To California
3) Black Country Woman
4) Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
5) White Summer/Black Mountain Side
6) Kashmir

Cd 3

1) Moby Dick
2) Guitar Solo
3) Achilles Last Stand
4) Stairway To Heaven
5) Whole Lotta Love
6) Rock & Roll
7) It'll Be Me

'Whole Lotta Love' - 'Rock & Roll' are a medley... so, don't expect too much. However - it's the 2nd encore of 'It'll Be Me' featuring Bad Company's Mick Ralphs, which makes this a "must have" - as far as mad Zeppelin bootleg collectors !!

Please, don't buy bootlegs - buy the official stuff instead.... but, this is a good show & one to put in the collection !! I've had the audience recording 'It'll Be Zep' for a number of years now.... so, to actually get the s/b recording, after all of these years - well.... it's really good !!

Add to the above - I've picked up copies of 'Heaven & Earth' - I think, the latest release from Yes... a 'Platinum Collection' by Alicia Keys - featuring 3 of her albums. 'Songs In A Minor' - The Diary Of Alicia Keys' & 'As I Am'..... as yet I've not played any of those.... plus... a must at this time of year 'We Wish You A Metal Xmas' - a collection of Christmas songs, featuring some of the World's great metal masters !! Heck - it's all good.... a bit of fun !!

I also managed to find a copy of Colosseum's 'Theme For A Reunion' - a live get together 2 Cd set.... I think I've done all of those tracks before... and will probably do them all again !! Anyhoo - I'll leave them, for today.... move onto one of the funniest & - in some ways - a bit of "I told you so" !!

As many of long time readers will know - I do not get on, with the neighbour, who lives over to our left. To be fair - she has fallen out with most of us, the people who live at this end of the close, since she moved in !!

A few years or so ago, she had a snap at our Daughter - ME - about her driving & the speed that she drove into the close. To say the least - she is a loud mouthed, bitch of a woman !! To also say the least - she is big & very "in your face" - especially when she gets angry, which (to be honest) seems to be her default setting !!

To have a go at ME - it made me sooooo mad - especially as her anger was directed at me. Earlier that day, after 3 weeks of finding our drive blocked by trucks, while they worked next door, I had a moan at the Husband about how fed up I was with the situation !!

So - after ME came in, I shouted, at the top of my lungs, that I was "fed up with the fat cow" !! She was at our door step, within seconds - threatening me, with court action & all kinds of hell !! Since that day - thankfully, she hasn't said 3 words to me..... if she did, I would probably ignore her.... she is that kind of woman !!

Anyhoo....... this week, she had a child, at the school, where she works, went up to her & said.... "You have to be the fattest woman in the Universe" !! I kid you not..... out of the mouths of babes, comes - as it goes - the honest truth !!

There is no reason, for her being overweight.... she is just huge !! If anything - since she's lived here - she has got bigger !! Sooooo - to have a child say that to her, no matter how much it hurt her feelings, has to have brought home "the truth" !!

The child was made to say "sorry" - which, I think, stinks !! Whoever said it, has to be less than 11 years old.... so, as we all know, children say what they think..... sometimes it hurts - but, more often than not - what they say, is exactly what they have on their minds !! Bless them !!

Maybe now - just maybe - she will "lighten up" in more ways than another !! Life goes on...... making the kid say "sorry"..... I think that was too much !! But - it has made us all smile..... ho-hum !!

Right... I better be on my ways..... things to do & all night to do them in !! No, really.... I'm just going to sit back & rest - I woke up, thinking it was Sunday ?! It turned out to be Saturday - so, I gained a day !! Life is really good...... I must go....

I thank you all for taking the time, to log in & read my words.... until next time...

Bye Bye