Stone The Crows - 'Teenage Licks' Ho-hum....

Hi again World's !!

Is your bit of the Universe as cold as it is here ?! B & I went into town, just a little while ago & it was blooming freezing.... really bone chilling !! Oh well - we're home now & the house is soon to be filled, with the smell of fresh baking !!

My Wife & Dearest Friend, is behind me, in the kitchen, getting various things together, ready for baking. Today's food of choice is going to be mince pies, an apple pie & some home made sausage rolls !! The whole lot will be ready, in just under 2 hours.... MMmmmmmm I can't wait !!

As mentioned, we went into town, mainly to get a few bits of food stuff... the supermarket was teaming with people !! It was really crowded - it made it hard work, just getting around, in my wheelchair, very hard work !!

Nevermind - we got what we needed & came home...... We will have to go into town, tomorrow, at some point - that's not going to be a lot of fun !! I'm guessing it will be wall to wall people, but.... !!

The plan is to leave here, as early as possible - then get into the shops, as early as the Lord permits & then come home. It's not going to be a lot of fun - but there are just a few fresh things, that we are going to need, in order to keep us going over the 4 days of the holiday's.... Friday, thru' to the Monday, when hopefully, things will have quietened down a bit !!

Time will tell, on all of that - it sounds like a plan, if it works that is !! I do love it, when our plans work out.... but, this time around, I think we might find it hard work, getting it all together, with-out forgetting something !! Oh well....

I've mentioned B... ME (our Daughter) 'phoned earlier & their plan is to come over, sometime, on Christmas day.... that will be nice, as we've not seen the M & M's for a little while now. Bless them - they work soooooo very hard, they need to take a chill-ax pill, at some point & just relax !!

As for Christmas - it's only 2 days away !! It's come around so quick this year.... it seems to have caught up on me, just a little bit. I'm glad, with the benefit of hindsight, that I had the last surgery 3 weeks early. If I had gone with the original plan, I would have most likely been struggling to get out of the hospital, in time, to celebrate the holidays !! Nevermind - I'm home now & it's looking good, for the New Year !!

I wrote, yesterday, that we were expecting a visit from one of the lady's from Church.... as it turned out, 3 of them showed up !! To be fair - 2 of them came around, with-out knowing the 3rd one was coming... so, when the original lady came, the 1st 2 left us in peace !!

I was glad of that - I find it hard, when there are lots of people around - so to have 3 of them, in our living room, was a bit too much for me..... As it turned out - we had a nice evening & it was good to have a chat & stuff.

It's put our minds, a little more at ease, about returning to The Church services, on Sundays. How often we will go, well... that's something that will go, the way it goes.... depending on my health & stuff......

Moving away, from The Church - onto the music of the moment !!

As I type, I'm listening to the 'R40 Live' DVD - which I wrote about a few days back.... so, I won't list the tracks again. You can get them, by reading one of my posts, from a day or 2 ago.

But - in the mail, this morning, I received another Allman Brothers album !! This one is called 'Mycology - an Anthology'. As the title suggest, it's a kind of best of. I've got every track, on the Cd - but it didn't cost me anything...... mainly as I bought it, using my bonus points, which I've built up with Play.com. Ok - they're still very slow in delivering things, but... !!

The tracks on the Cd are:

  1) Good Clean Fun
  2) Seven Turns
  3) End Of The Line
  4) Get On With Your Life
  5) Nobody Knows
  6) No One To Run With
  7) Back Where It All Begins
  8) Sailing 'Cross The Devil's Sea
  9) Midnight Rider
10) Every Hungry Woman

It looks like a good selection... and I'll give it a play, sometime later. I'll let you know how it goes. But, there is another album - which I was playing last night, that I wanted to mention..... and that's Stone The Crows 'Teenage Licks' from 1971.

I went up to the Royal Albert Hall, in London, to see Canned Heat & the Crows were the support band - playing the Cd, brought back a load of memories for me !! It's a good album - especially 'One Five Eight'. It's probably my favourite track.... if you get chance go & give it a listen !!

The tracks are:

1) Big Jim Salter
2) Faces
3) Mr. Wizard
4) Don't Think Twice
5) Keep On Rollin'
6) Ailen Mochree
7) One Five Eight
8) I May Be Right I May Be Wrong
9) Seven Lakes

I did have the album, on Lp - but to get it on Cd was quite a bonus for me !! Like I said above - check it out, if you can, it's really good... well, I think so, at least !! I do like my old albums, as long time readers will know !!

Right - I better think about signing off, for today.... things to do - well, not really !! I have to clear off, one of the shelves, sooooo that will take me a few minutes or so. It's in a right mess & I need to sort out the various Cd's that are on it.

Sooooo - I'm away for today.... as always, I thank you all for logging in & for reading my words. If any of you want to comment on what I write (good or bad) I would love to hear from you !! Now tho' - I must away....... until next time....

Bye Bye