'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' on vinyl !!

Hi World's !!

It's a Wednesday, here in England's South-West corner.... I've only been awake, fro an hour - sooooo, I'm not firing on all thrusters, as Dr McCoy would say !! Nether mind - I didn't have the best of nights, not getting to sleep, until gone 1am this morning !! Mind you - as I haven't posted anything, since last week, well, I've had a shit few days really !!

To be honest - to use another "Star Trek" phrase.... "I've come millions of miles - sorry thousands of miles, to get here", this morning... so, I better get on with it & tell you about the last few days !! Where to begin....

Actually - it's not been that hard... it just feels like it !! I have struggled, with the shit, that our Son J wrote, last week..... it really has got to me !! I'm sick & I know, that I shouldn't let things play on my mind.... but, what can I say - he's my Son, I love all of my children & I worry about them !!

Ok - one of my Sons is thousands of miles away & I've had next to no contact, with him, over the last 30 years..... but, he is still my Son & I love him, just not in a way that I can quantify !!

Then there is ME - our beautiful & special Daughter. I love her & her partner M.... in more ways than they will ever know !! That just leaves our Son - J.... and, I can not stop loving him, even tho' some times, I wish I could.

Maybe, one day - if he reads these words - or if he reaches my age, he will look back & think a little kinder, on his old man. It's pretty doubtful..... but, by then, I will be long dead & dusted.... sooooo, I will never truly know, how things will turn out.

That was a very "dark" way, to start off a post !! I best move on, to B - My Wife & Dearest Friend !!

As I type, she is behind me... having spent a fair portion, of the morning, baking in the kitchen. The whole house smells of fresh baked cakes !! Now - she is sat, over to my left, waiting for the oven timer, to go off & welcome a new batched of warm, fresh baking !!

Of course, she has been up & out of bed, for a while now - not like me, who really is a lazy toad, in the mornings !! As I said, above - I have only been awake for an hour. I wish things were different, in the mornings !! However, the pills, that I take - in the wee hours, knock me sideways & until I can get off of those, well..... I'll just have to live with being tardy. Oh well......

Our NFH - well... we've been coming up, with a few comments, over the last few days !!

She is having some solar panels, put up on the roof & we think it's keep her waterbed warm, or to keep an electric fence, between her Husband  herself.... for his own safety, at least !! Honestly - our neighbours comments, well - they have been far, far worse !!

I know solar is a re-new-able source, but, they really look bad !! I'm all for keeping the Earth.... but, come on - these panels look really bad !! Not as bad, as the NFH - but.... nothing could look that bad !!

Right - the music of the moment...

Well, I'm very, very happy to announce, that the Nightwish album 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' has reached me, in the shape of a 2 Lp picture disc..... as I type - I'm playing the whole of Side 4 'The Greatest Show On Earth'. It not only looks good - it sounds brilliant !!

The tracks, well - they are the same, as the Cd version, but, here they are anyhoo. Starting with Side A:

Side A

1) Shudder Before The Beautiful
2) Weak Fantasy
3) Elan

Side B

1) Yours I An Empty Hope
2) Our Dreams In The Sun
3) My Walden

Side C

1) Endless Forms Most Beautiful
2) Edema Ruh
3) Alpenglow
4) The Eyes Of Sharbat Gula

Side D

The Greatest Show On Earth

Chapter I)   Four Point Six
Chapter II)  Life
Chapter III) The Toolmaker
Chapter IV) The Understanding
Chapter V)  Sea-Worn Driftwood

Go out & buy yourself, a copy of the Cd... or the Lp - if you feel like it... you will not be disappointed, I think it will really knock your thrusters, out of the engines !! It's well good !! Of course - I'm bias...having fallen in love with Nightwish, just around the time of their 'Once' album.....

........ from there, well, I bought everything I could lay my hands on. It didn't matter who was singing, they really have never let me down, with each album.... they still amaze !!

Also - slightly more amazing.... is the fact, that B didn't quite knock my head off, when she saw I had also ordered the 2 singles, on Cd !! Having bought them, a week or two back, on 10 inch coloured vinyl. This ways, I don't run the risk of messing up the coloured discs. The tracks are the same.... sooooo - why not !! It all adds to the collection..... !!

Bless her - B knows I love my music... so, she lets me get away with a one heck of a lot !! The only time, that she said "No" - well, that was some back, when i was offered a 20 disc Cd collection by Page & Plant...... mind you, it was £450 !!

Nevermind.....

As mentioned before - I'm gradually going thru' all of the Cd's - trying to put them, into some kind of order. It's been a long time coming - having started the list, oh - at least 5 years ago !! It has been an eye opener tho' !!

For example - last night, I found out, I had 15 or 16 David Bowie Cd's !! I knew I had the odd one or two.... but, not 15 or 16 !! Plus - I found  2 Lou Reed Cd's.... collecting dust and - much to my surprise, a 2 Cd live set, by Lindisfarne !! I didn't realise, that I even had any Cd's by Lindisfarne, let alone a live set !! Ah - the magic of clearing the shelves & going thru' everything....

To be honest - being so sick, just before Easter, was a "wake up" call. had I died then, nobody hetre, would of known what was on the shelves.... this way, if I get that sick again, there will be a list, for B to work thru' !! I hope it will help.... ?!

Right - my plans for the rest of the day.....

I have to go down to the local Dr's surgery, very soon, to have my dressings changed again !! It really has got quite painful - well, on Monday it was !! There are times, that I think it will soon be all over & done with - then, out of the blue, things start to hurt & I take a backward step !! Nevermind - it will give me something to look forward to - after 2 years of this, I really am getting pissed off, with the whole thing !!

Oh well.... must go..... things to do, even if it all come down, to watching last Monday's episode of 'Game Of Thrones'. It had one of the best battle scenes, I have ever seen on the programme !! Maybe, just maybe, I will list up a few more Cd's..... I will decided later on... must go.

As always, I thank you for logging in & reading my words, from which ever country you live in....until next time...

Bye Bye