Monday Monday (Again) !!

Hail & Greetings Worlds,

Well - it's a Monday & I'm home alone.... no that's a lie... 2 of the cats are in, so I have a little company.  The family are all out.  B & ME are out shopping & J is working at the college today.  B, bless her, has been poorly most of the night, but she promised ME she would go shopping with her today & so off she went !!

My plans are really to sit here, resting & playing music.......  I fell over last night & my chest hurts like there is no tomorrow, so a rest is on the cards !!  Seems like when I fell, I landed on my arms, which were in front of me - hence between my chest & the floor - so....... never mind, still breathing & that's always a bonus !!

Yesterday, at Church, Bishop asked me how I was.... I said the usual "still breathing & that beats the alternative" & then we had a laugh about it !!  The alternative is to die & be with our Lord in Heaven - so maybe 'life' is not the better of the 2 options on offer !!!  Oh well..... we could tie ourselves up in knots over that one I guess !!

Church was good yesterday..... but, with a little sadness as our friends D & J are going home to America.  They gave me another book - they are so generous it's unreal !!  Oh well, it was nice to meet them over the last couple of months & we will miss them. 

Ok - so the music of the moment..... it's the Allman Brothers !!  No surprises really.  On Thursday the parcel came from America with about 50 hours of new live stuff for me to listen to !!  B cannot quite understand why I like them soooo much.... I just do - especially the live albums they bring out from their shows !!  At the moment I'm playing a show from Boston last November & I'm loving every second of it !!  Well good.......

There is a problem tho'.... with all the new cds & stuff I had over the last few weeks, I'm out of space !!  There are about 100 cds here in front of me that need homes & that will be my 'job' today - trying to sort them out....... it's going to be fun !!

Bye Bye

Hello again ....

Hello Worlds......

It's a lovely day here in the wilds of England - well, the south west wilds of England.... It is a little over cast outside, but the view over the coast is quite good, I think the tide is on the ways in... hard to tell !!

Anyhoo, I'm here sat... the music of the moment is a live recording of Robert Plant from about 9 years ago - 'Hey Joe' is coming out of the speakers loud & clear - it is a bootleg, but quite a good quality one..... some of them are a bit 'bad' - but this one is pretty good.

I mentioned, a day or 2 back, that I was thinking about buying some more Allman Brothers Cd's.  I was thinking 4 or 5 sets.  Well, going thru' the list yesterday, I came up with 8 possibilities !!  I'm guessing no matter how much my Dearest Friend (& wife) B loves me, I might have to cut a few of them from the list !!  I buy quite a few each year from their (the Allman Brothers) live sets - I think it was 14 last time around - that was about $350 worth - so I might get away with a few extra this time !!

Talking of my Dearest Friend..... B & ME are out meeting up with her Aunt & cousin.... B's Mum & Aunt were twins.... Mum died a few years back, so B likes to 'celebrate' with her Aunt on this day.  ME calls her Grandma G.... - that goes down well, as G has no granddaughters of her own, just grandsons.

I said it was a 'nice day' outside - well..... it's just starting to spot with rain !!  Oh well.... the girls are at a shopping village place, so they should be in the dry......  mind you, the longer they stay indoors, the more cash they will spend !?!  Not to worry - it's a special day after all.

We were at Church on Sunday & one of the speakers raised a point I've often thought of.  The point being, that 2000 years ago messages took forever to travel.  I've made the point myself.... in the 1970's, a letter would take the best part of a week to reach Bermuda & another week for the reply to get back to me.  We take for granted how the times have changed.  Within seconds of me sending an e-mail, a friend can read it & mail me back......

Likewise, IF anybody is reading these words, it would only take a few seconds to get back to me... feel free to so !!  It would be great to know that there is life out there ....... As Spock would say "It's life Jim - but, not as we know it"

Bye Bye

Hi again World !!

'Tis a good day - the sun is shinning, the sky is blue & the music of the moment is the Grateful Dead.... for those of you who have read before, it's one of the concerts I picked up a week or two back. It's the first time I've actually got around to playing this one - so far so good !! It's from about 1977 - tho' it kind of sounds 'timeless'..... not sure if that is even a word ? !!

Oh well - if you get chance, check out the Allman Brothers live stuff from last year. It was their 40th anniversary & the concerts really did rock.... you can get them from their shop (on line) - don't be put off by the fact it's live - they are really well recorded !! Like the Dead - the Allman's stuff sounds really good..... will today's bands be around in 30 or 40 years ? I know I won't & that's for sure !!

At the moment B is out in the village ("I am not a number") ME is doing a placement (Uni) & J is - I think - upstairs. He is on babysitting duty today.... I'll try and be good !! We were expecting the Elders to pop over for a meal a bit later, but they've had to cancel... no big deal - they can come another time !! We have to keep them fed & watered !!

IF anybody is reading this, I'm sorry I've not much to 'report' today - it's very quiet here... much to my liking really..... oh well !!

Never mind - it's the way my life is really.... nice & quiet !!

Bye bye !!

Greetings....

Hi again to anybody who might read this.....

It's a beautiful day here in the country - tho', this morning on a trip to town, the traffic was really bad..... why do they always do road works at peak times ? Oh well.....

That was this morning - this afternoon I'm here on my lonesome... B has taken J into town to check out some job things. If I've not mentioned this before, he lost his job last week - bummer !

So I'm here playing some Allman Brothers... it's one of their shows from the Beacon Theater last year... well good it is as well !! I only ever saw them once, on the first visit to this country in 1974. Jeez, it seems from reading these posts that all the concerts I write about are from the mid '70s.... it's just a coincidence, I promise you !!

Anyways - I must away.... too many things to do & not enough brain cells to deal with them all !!

Take care.....