Tuesday Tunes 284: Songs For The Season For the past few years I have followed up my Advent tunes by playing some that are relevant for the remainder of the year. Some are looking back at the year just gone, others looking ahead - rather like we do when the New Year approaches. I see no reason to…

Song Lyric Sunday: Mice, Rats, Whatever… For this week's Song Lyric Sunday, as he tells us in his post Hickory Dickory Dock, Jim is inviting us to play tunes about rodents, which was suggested by me in a moment of madness - he tells how it came about. I had one obvious one in mind - the one I…

Advent Countdown 2025: Christmas Day 🦌🎄🤶🎅 So we finally come to the end of Advent, as today is Christmas Day, in case you hadn't noticed. If you have been with me for the seven previous episodes of this series I am very grateful to you, and if you are actually taking time out from your busy…

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Tuesday Tunes 283: Advent 2025 Part Seven 🎄🦌 'Tis the week of Christmas, and it is time for the penultimate set in this year's Advent Countdown. As there are so many songs I wanted to play I'm adding in an extra one for this week's two final posts, giving you six tunes and, today, a conclusion to…

SLS: Boys And Girls Can All Be Queens Today's prompt for Song Lyric Sunday, as Jim tells us in his post Engaging With Music, is to play a song from an album you had never listened to before, which had been suggested by, er, me. This might be taken to mean the first listen to a new record after you…

Advent Countdown 2025 Part Six 🦌🎅 Like the rest of this year, December is flying by and we're already up to the sixth of the eight parts of this year's Advent Countdown. I hope you've been enjoying these, and will continue to do so. I usually dedicate one post each year to some more serious songs…

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Tuesday Tunes 282: Advent 2025 Part Five 🤶☃️ Only nine days until it happens, and if your household contains little people I hope they are getting excited. I live on my own so I try to keep the levels down - not good for my blood pressure! But there is still plenty of music to play, so let's get…

SLS: A Mighty Long Way Down Rock’n’Roll Now here's a surprise. it's Song Lyric Sunday and I'm not playing any folk music - I felt like a change after a five week run! This week's theme, as Jim tells us in his post Geographical Areas, is to play a song that mentions a state, a country, or a place,…

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Advent Countdown 2025 Part Four 🤶🦌 I received this year's first one of these yesterday - it's in the TBR pile, until I can bring myself to look at it! I have much more important things on my mind anyway, like playing some more seasonal tunes. For this selection I am relying on four more of my…

Tuesday Tunes 281: Advent 2025 Part Three ☃️🎅 Advent rumbles on, bringing the big day ever closer. We're already up to Part Three of my Advent Countdown, and as before I'm playing five tunes for you. Four of these are making a welcome return, and one is brand new. I'm also sharing a new ad today…

Song Lyric Sunday: His Grave It Was Green I thought at first that Jim seemed to be in gruesome mode this week, as his Song Lyric Sunday invitation is to play a song that mentions death, kill or murder. Keeping it cheerful in the season of goodwill! But his post tells more: tomorrow is the 45th…

Advent 2025 Part Two ☃️🦌 We're beginning to get into the Advent swing, and here are five more songs that I like. I've played four of these before but one is making its debut - the video is newly released so I'm showing that I'm down with the kids and keeping my fingers on the pulse of that pop…

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Tuesday Tunes 280: Advent 2025 Begins 🤶🎅 As 2025 flies past at an incredible rate, it doesn't feel like nearly a year since I was last sharing some seasonal tunes with you. But I'm afraid that it is! Newbies won't be familiar with this but older hands will know that I devote my December musical…

Song Lyric Sunday: Mountains And Hills Sunday rolls around again, which must mean that it is time for a Song Lyric Sunday piece. This week's invitation from Jim is to play a song that mentions either a hill or a mountain, at the suggestion again of Di, of pensitivity101 blog fame. Jim's post tells…

On Thanksgiving Day Whilst we don't celebrate Thanksgiving Day as a holiday here there are many who live in the UK for whom this is a special occasion. For example, I saw on the tv news yesterday that there are around 70,000 Americans living in the London area, and no doubt there are quite a few…

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Tuesday Tunes 279: Water (A Reprise) Having brought a close last week to my three part mini-series of fire songs, and before the start (next Tuesday) of my seasonal sets, I was wondering what I could do for just one week. So I took a look back through my notes and found that I played a set of…

Song Lyric Sunday: Rivers Play a song that mentions River/Stream/Creek/Brook is the invitation for this week's Song Lyric Sunday, at the  suggestion of  Di of the pensitivity101 blog. Jim's post, Naturally Flowing Water, tells us more. I'm playing you a couple of tunes for this, both of which take…

November’s New Music I occasionally post selections of new music which has crossed my radar, most of which comes from recommendations by the ever-reliable YouTube algorithm. It has been five months since I last did this, and as there have been quite a few recently that I have liked I thought I'd…

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Tuesday Tunes 278: More Fire Keeping to my self-appointed rule of not going beyond three posts for a mini-series within Tuesday Tunes this will be my last set of fire songs for now. I've played some favourites over the past two weeks and still have several more up my sleeve, so I'm rounding this…

Song Lyric Sunday: Pan’s People For this week's Song Lyric Sunday Jim is inviting us to play a song that was released on an album titled Greatest Hits or Best Of, as he tells us in his post Most Popular Songs. This is very similar to a theme from six months back, when we had 'compilation or…

Take That, Suckers As you may know, I occasionally join in with the weekly Writer’s Workshop, which is hosted by John Holton. One of his suggested topics this week is to write about a wrong number telephone call we have either made or received, which is actually a reprise of a prompt that he ran…

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Tuesday Tunes 277: Fire! Although our Bonfire Night is now behind us - apart from the neighbourhood twat still letting off fireworks late on Sunday night - I have collected many songs with fire in their title and, not wanting to be wasteful, I thought I'd play another set of them this week. I have…

Song Lyric Sunday: Dance The Polka For this week on Song Lyric Sunday Jim is inviting us to play a song that mentions jewellery, like a watch, a ring or a necklace. His post Ring On Her Nose tells all. I've decided to take you down the English folk music route for this, with a song that I have…

Remembrance 2025 Here in the UK this coming weekend sees our annual Remembrance Sunday, the day on which we remember and thank those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom. I have posted for this every year since I started this blog: it is an important occasion for which I always…

Tuesday Tunes 276: Bonfire Night 2025 Last week I played a set of tunes to mark Halloween, even though I don't really celebrate the event and its rampant commercialism, and this week I'm returning to another event for which I have often played tunes. Tomorrow is November 5th, which is marked in…

Song Lyric Sunday: Hot Beverages For this week's Song Lyric Sunday Jim is inviting us to play a song that mentions coffee or tea, as he tells us in his post Wake Up And Smell. I have previously run a Tuesday Tunes post for coffee but haven't done one for tea, so I'm reprising one of the coffee…

That Was October As another month races to a close - this year is going so fast! - it is time for me to do my round up of what I gave you in the previous thirty days. Hopefully you will have found something here to enjoy, and if you missed anything this is your chance to catch up. Including this…

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Tuesday Tunes 275: Halloween 2025 It was never a plan, but I seem to have got into the habit of playing selections of songs to mark Halloween, which is perhaps a little surprising as this isn't something I celebrate, and though the commercialisation has taken off here it is still nowhere near as…

Song Lyric Sunday: Weed, Whites And Wine This week for Song Lyric Sunday we have an amazing invitation: to play a song that mentions either Cars or Trucks. This was suggested by Clive of Take It Easy - oh, hang on, that's me. It's wonderful what can come out of a comments chat, isn't it! I've no…

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Moments Calm down, I'm not welcoming another to the family - this is old news! I've long since stopped writing for the daily prompt that WordPress offers us, but I follow several bloggers who do, and yesterday's was to write about big moments that you remember from history. By coincidence, one of…