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Music… and my favourite gigs
Music has always been an important part of my life even though I don’t play any instrument myself. You can read all about how I became a groupie (… there’s more of a story to those posts than you might guess from the title!) Music has also enabled me to meet the most wonderful people and make some great friends… and music has been an inspiration too!
The things which crop up in our English class
In our English conversation class, we were trying to explain the phrase being ‘used to’ something… ‘I don’t mind walking to town, I’m used to it…’ ‘writing every day is easy for me because I’m used to it…’ In our explanation we used the words ‘habitual’ and ‘accustomed to’ and I was reminded of this […]
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Every Tuesday we wander down to our local,the Dolphin, because it is quiz night. We have a great team of friends, and this evening, my son and his friends, an international team, were with us. It is a very random quiz of two parts, and in one of the parts, one of the questions was […]
MoreA message…
Only one of many shares, a life-changing man, his influence isn’t yet fully recognised
MoreUntil I come home…
Billy Fury… born Ronald Wycherley in Liverpool in 1940, died too young in 1983
MoreA seasonal song…
I have a very low tolerance level of Christmas songs that shops insist on playing from about September onwards… but this is one I really love… Thanks, David Essex…
MoreBack in your arms again…
Going round the shops in the weeks leading up to Christmas, your ears are assaulted by endless repetitions of the same dire songs and music… Things which were old and ghastly when I was a child are still being played, as well as the dreary droning easy-listening versions of so called ‘classic’ seasonal melodies. Why not […]
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Lois Elsden 