Hi again...

So,

It's Friday & another week has gone by - where do they all go ? This time last week, it was Easter weekend & I was looking forward to General Conference..... oh well.

As you may know, we've gone 'Digital' this past week - no more crude TV signals, just weird & wonderful mega channels from all over the world. One of our satellites is 'Telstar 12' - hell I'm old enough to remember the first Telstar..... The world spins on & it's a lovely day outside so no point moaning about it.... Telstar 12 !!!

B is outside doing the gardening - tending & talking to her plants. Our place gets very soggy, so we need a few dry days for the lawns to dry out for cutting. She seems to enjoy her garden - me, I just kill anything I look at !!

On the music front, I have a tape playing at the moment & I've no idea who it is !! I recorded it many many moons ago, probably for the car, so it could be anybody..... tho' I would take a guess at it being Little Feat. I'm just trying to remember if I ever saw them live - can't remember !

A day or two ago, I mentioned the Pink Floyd bootleg.... well, I dug out the Knebworth '75 set - another bootleg, so the quality ain't special, but a nice thing to have... if only to say "I was there".

I can't honestly believe it was 35 years ago !!

This afternoons plans are pretty flexible, so - as I've to rest up after yesterday - I'll be playing more music & just being me - life is great !! Now if only I can find out who's on this tape !!

Never mind... I'll remember at some point !

Have a good one......................................................................... Take care C

I Love it when a plan comes together !!

So,

There we were walking - well, B was walking - thru' town & I kind of casually say about going into this shop... we walk in, I say "hello..." B says "What have you done ?!" and the rest is, as they say history.

B is now the beautiful owner of a piece of Welsh gold in the shape of a flower, the Cancer foundation get a 10% cut and me - well... "I love it when a plan comes together !"

Anyhow, that was yesterday - today has been a bummer. But, it seems like I'm going 'bionic' and having a £10,000 bit of hardware fitted to me, which if all goes well, will make my life a lot better..... come on, did you think I spend all day listening to music for the hell of it ?

Nope, I have some crude disease that up until 9 years ago I had never heard of. BUT, no matter how bad things get, I'm surrounded by a great family and - even it beats me - I'm going down fighting !

I just get bummed out when things go wrong and I/we have no control over it. I hope dear readers you can understand that ? The new bit of kit will make things sooooo much better (if it works) it'll be unreal !!

I live by a phrase:

"If you'll falling a long way, you may as well try and fly"

I've been falling a very long way these past years - but I'm still flying and, besides, little things like yesterday make the world a lot nicer place to live in !

Enough of this - the music these past 2 days has been really electric. Too many names to mention, but, at the moment I'm listening to the fantastic Mick Ronson & Ian Hunter. A great album from a few years back... check it out.

I'm away - sleep easy people.

Starnge but true.....

OK,

It's 4pm in the afternoon - re-runs of Star Trek are on the TV - and for some unknown reason, Depeche Mode are on the tape I'm
playing !! Very weird, as it started out as some AOR stuff !! God knows when I recorded this - must of been in a moment of madness I guess... oh well.

Tomorrow, if all goes to plan, something special is going to happen. I've made a deal with a shop in 'town' to keep B a Welsh gold necklace thing - she really loves that stuff..... shame it's so bloody expensive !!

Both the kids are in on the plan - it's a long story - but ME went into the shop to put it aside for me and J has loaned me a few £'s to help things along. If all goes well, sometime tomorrow morning, B's face will be a picture & I'll probably get a rollicking for treating her..... but it'll be worth it - just to see her face !!

Anyhow, that apart & the D Mode tape - things have gone pretty well today... got on with some cds, putting them in some kind of order - it's no good working out what we have here, if I ain't got a clue where they all are !

Much to my surprise, I found a copy of the Pink Floyd bootleg 'Winter Tour 74'.... I've had that one some years !! It's been 35 years, this year, since I saw them at Knebworth - a great day had by all !! I'll dig the tapes of the show out & give them a listen later - a 3 cd set if I remember !!

Oh well - with D Mode playing badly - sorry lads - in the background, I must away.... onto Floyd I think, or maybe I'll let the amp cool down a bit & watch Star Trek. What fun !!!

Here I am once more....

Greetings,

I've had a sad thought today - I've been playing far too much AC/DC... Today it was the 'No Bull' dvd. It's okay, but a little too much for me in my aging years !

Oh well, it's been a quiet day really - apart from AC/DC - with a little Van Morrison and a LOT of Grateful Dead... only 6 cds, if that counts for a lot, but all good stuff anyhoo.

Being Easter Monday, we've stayed in for most of it, hence the 6 Grateful Dead cds - are there any Dead Heads out there ? It took me a few years to understand them, preferring the Allman Brothers Band - but they have grown on me over the last 30 years or so.

God !! 30 years... oh well...

Live will go on & on & on......

What a wonderful weekend !!

Tis 10.30 pm & such a wonderful weekend is coming to a close... not only the close of Easter Sunday - but also the close of our 180th Conference !

I won't bore you with the details, but it's been a great two days for me. My family have been here, with me, and I've played some kick butt music - all is good in the world....... not perfect, but for me I could wish for no more.

Music wise, I recommend Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and their 'Stranger In Us All' album. I heard it for the first time this past few hours & I am so over the moon, as one of the tracks is the wonderful 'Ariel' !!

I have looked for so long to find this track, soooooooo long - to finally get a copy has been the cream on the top of the apple pie.... it's one of my favourite tunes that Blackmore's Night played in concert.... and now I have the studio version - great stuff...

Take care & goodnight !

Greetings

Hi,

Now picture the scene... it's 6.30am, it's wet & windy - average day in England I guess - and we're heading south on the motorway. What a better pick me up than AC/Dc & 'Hells Bells' blasting thru' the car stereo !!!

After a quarter hour and a few miles, we pick J up from his work - knackered as usual after a night shift - and head off into town to deliver an Easter cake to the missionaries who are serving in our Ward... only they've moved !!!

So, it's now about 7.30am and we give them a call.... only to have a very vague voice on the other end of the line. So we tracked them down and find them on the doorstep of their 'new' home - both without shoes, and only in sweat shirts and shorts - in the rain & in the very cold morning air.

It turns out, the vague voice on the end of the phone is a brand new Missionary - only on his first morning in our Ward... he wasn't being vague, he had no idea who we were OR probably where he was !! What a strange welcome to our homes & hearts !!

It was all worth it tho' to see the look on their faces when they saw the cake - chocolate, with mini eggs on the top... we have to look after the guys, they are a long ways from home after all + it's nice to know they are normal guys under their suits.... bless them all !!

It's now 6.15pm - it's been a long day (for me at least) and Ritchie Blackmore's 'Rainbow' is blasting thru' the speakers. A new album to me called 'Stranger In Us All' - it came out quite a few years ago, but this is the first time I've heard it... any Rainbow fans out there ? Is there anybody out there ? Anywhere ????????

Oh well - ti's Easter weekend & to make it more special, it's Conference weekend.... some of you will know what I mean, for those who don't... well not to worry.

Good night World !!!

A Question....

Has anyone out there ever seen a film called 'A Scream For Help' ??

Last night B was driving us home - about 11pm - and as our favourite radio station has been closed down (Boo Boo), we were playing a tape in the car. it turned out to be the s/t to the above film... from I'm guessing about 1984.

I used to have a really great friend - he past away - who lived on an island. It had 'sun, sea & everything'.... but, at the time, a really bad time getting albums & stuff. This is before the Internet and the stuff we take for granted now... so every now & again I would send him over stuff he wanted.

Anyhow, the s/t was done by John Paul Jones & as I've been a BIG fan of Led Zeppelin since hearing side A of the 1st album, I got a copy for myself. BUT it dawned on me last night, I've never seen the movie.........

Oh well - have a good Easter !!