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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!
A Winter’s Tale
I studied Shakespeare’s great play The Winter’s Tale… but great though it is, I’m afraid i didn’t enjoy studying it… I suppose appropriately for the title it left me completely cold. It was originally thought of as a comedy, and then a romance, but I was never really moved by it; it appeared was one of […]
MoreHeroes and Villains
This takes me right back to when I lived in Cambridge, and when I was a teenager; I was in a swimming club and the music we played was the Beach Boys, the Beach Boys, the Beach Boys! This song, written by Brian Wilson was released in 1967… the last summer we lived in Cambridge…
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Thinking of summer nights…
I like having seasons, and seasons which are distinctly different, so I don’t mind it being winter and being chilly, and with long nights and grey days… but it is still nice to think back to the summer… and what better to take us there than this lovely song by Jonas Carping… Sommarnattens Sång, Summr Night’s Song…
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Lois Elsden 