#dailyhaikuprompt - foggy With Compo and Clegg Pushing a tin bath uphill Til the end of time

#dailyhaikuprompt - maudlin Let's not be maudlin Sorrow can take the night off Let's not drink to that

#dailyhaikuprompt - desolate The golden plover Haunts the desolate moorland On long summer days

#dailyhaikuprompt - groan The graveyard at night Creaking branches or the groans Of unquiet spirits

#steppingstonessongs for #tunetuesday, songs which work as introduction to a genre. The mighty Fairport have already featured but here's a different one. From the BBC sessions album "Heyday", 1967 or thereabouts, recorded for John Peel's Top Gear. The album is not actually your typical […]

#dailyhaikuprompt - coolness Sleek black cat slinking Between bins, stops, looks, moves on Coolness in action

#dailyhaikuprompt - halt (north)/high tide (south) To halt the hight tide He stands like the ancient king Water fills his boots

#dailyhaikuprompt - haystack Sinking his pint, he Said, sometimes you're the haystack Sometimes the needle I have no idea what, if anything, this means.

#bigcrescendos for #tunetuesday, songs with exciting high points. Three came to mind, so honourable mentions to: Pulp - Common People The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again But it has to be: Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Feed your head! https://youtu.be/Vl89g2SwMh4?si=GbbHbAxVNuTnKrQt

#dailyhaikuprompt - vivid Amongst autumn shades With vivid red, pink and white Cosmos keeps the faith

#dailyhaikuprompt - straw There's a straw man, he's Waiting in the field. Told me, Let the crows boogie.

In Glasgow for a couple of days, so naturally had to pay my respects to St Mungo. Also Sir Billy.

#dailyhaikuprompt - geese Returned from far north Pink footed geese draw their lines Across autumn skies

#dailyhaikuprompt - ghost The rattling ghost train Haunts the end of pier arcade Shut twenty years now

It's a #wideopenspaces kind of #tunetuesday and accordingly I'm going back to 1930 for Beyond the Blue Horizon, by George Olsen and his Orchestra. I was originally thinking of the Lou Christie version that features in the soundtrack to Rain Man, but found this and it wins hands down for a pure […]

#tunetuesday theme is #nonlexicalvocals So Minnie Riperton has the full set of la las, do-dos and high pitched aaah (would you call that a yodel? Not the kind of sound I'd associate with a swiss mountain, personally) https://song.link/i/1443067813

#dailyhaikuprompt - footsteps Stand stock still, don't move Wait til she turns her back, then Run towards grandma

#tunetuesday a little late today for the #brittlecold theme. Two from me: a haunting Cold and Raw from June Tabor, and Tracey Thorn's cover of In the Cold Cold Night, from what is technically a (whisper it) Christmas album https://song.link/i/1617416075 https://song.link/gb/i/764058886

#dailyhaikuprompt - salmon Some salmon resist The call of natal riverbed And head on downstream Happy to report I resisted the initial thought, a highly overworked pun on the musical output of Sam & Dave. Including (who can forget) Sole Man.

Silent Sunday, late September sun #garden #silentsunday #window #frame

#dailyhaikuprompt - harvest With long tail he climbs Wheat stalks, reeds, doesn't know he's Europe's smallest mouse Or, technically, smallest rodent. The harvest mouse, that is.

#whatwasthat great #tunetuesday theme this week, a song that contains an unusual instrument, vocal or clash of genres. Back to the Divine Comedy, with a Noel Coward cover that goes a little bit Underworld in the middle https://song.link/i/1533330675

Levens Hall gardens, a feast of topiary #garden #silentsunday

#dailyhaikuprompt - laughter Those laughter lines etched On a face with years of life Love and laughs run deep

For #tunetuesday the theme this week is #coolestcat - songs that make you feel like the coolest cat in the room, office or garden. Or kitchen, in the case of this one this morning. There's nothing cooler than the air keyboard solo that comes in the middle of this one, right? 10cc, Wall Street […]

#dailyhaikuprompt - clover Clovers and trefoils Colour the lawn, bees attend Good luck is assured

#dailyhaikuprompt - vine

#dailyhaikuprompt sardines Playing hide and seek But on finding, seekers hide Together. Get it?

#tunetuesday time. The theme is #firstcomefirstplayed Close your eyes, what's the first song that comes to mind? Well I'm very suggestible so I went straight to this little-known combo with "All My Loving" https://song.link/i/1441164625

#dailyhaikuprompt - refreshing Sudden rain shower Breaks the heat, soaks to the skin Refreshes, resets

#dailyhaikuprompt - lantern Dusk descends again Solar charged lanterns light up Suburban gardens

#dailyhaikuprompt - undulate We apologise For the undue lateness Of the evening train And I apologise for an unduly poor pun.

#dailyhaikuprompt - buzz Everybody's stoked There's a huge amount of buzz For the next big thing

#songsfromthefuture for #tunetuesday. The two that sprung to mind are both written about a future that is now firmly in the past. Disco 2000 by Pulp, runner up to: 1999 by Prince. Yup, we're gonna party like it's 1982. https://song.link/i/1479565583

Ok, so thinking about the haiku I may or may not get around to writing tomorrow, I get to the question of how many syllables in "everybody". Yeah, I googled it. Thank goodness for the AI overview, I have a very clear answer. Guess I'll go with 4, as per Eddie Cochran.

#dailyhaikuprompt - chill Not so fast, autumn Save your dark morning chill air Let summer linger Seriously. I haven't even had my summer holiday yet...

A very foggy, grey #tunetuesday here so some bright colours for this week's theme, #palettemusic. Might be all the roadworks on the way in to work, but I'm going with this progression: Red light indicates doors are secured - Arctic monkeys Girl in amber - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Tell me […]

#dailyhaikuprompt - moon A mission cut short A life lived long, and a tale Of a moon unwalked

#dailyhaikuprompt - dance She danced like no one Was watching, not the wisest Audition technique.

#dailyhaikuprompt - pack Wolf pack in silence Stalking prey, invisible Right up to the end #haiku

#dailyhaikuprompt - "Katydid" As Phil Collins sang Well I was there and I saw What you did, Katy #haiku Ah, my first dip into the world of Haiku was about a year ago, when this prompt came up and I had to google it.

A #tunetuesday #atthebeach sounds good to me. Hearing this as a kid I wondered who Michelle was and why muscles were being pulled for her - sounded painful. https://song.link/i/1444083937

#nomnomnomnom is the theme for #tunetuesday - songs about food. Nearly all the ones I first thought of, well, they're not really about food. Honourable mention to Breakfast in Bed from Dusty in Memphis. So I landed on possible the most literal interpretation by Mr "Weird Al" Yankovic […]

#dailyhaikuprompt - sunflower Wind-battered, heat-baked Slug-bothered, bamboo broken Sunflowers abide A sequel to (June 16) Eight foot bamboo canes Support growing sunflowers Will they grow higher? #haiku

It's #longhaultunes for #tunetuesday, and Mr Billy Bird has been on his travels but is on his way home, if he can just find his way through airport security.. https://song.link/i/697256058

#JukeboxFridayNight #simplicity A simple enough song, pared down to the bone. https://youtu.be/KPrFaUZimjA?feature=shared

Ok so I had to think a bit for #tunetuesday, songs that have ch-ch-ch-changes #180degrees I nearly went with Sparks, The Number One Song in Heaven, but is the first 2 minutes just intro really? Or Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, but that's really just McCartney running a couple of songs together […]

Oh, and for a slightly more up to date bit of #legendaryguitarwork for #tunetuesday, here's Johnny Marr doing only what he can with How Soon Is Now. Marr pops up in many youtube clips talking about how Jansch influenced him, so that's grounds enough to feature him too. Along with, you know […]

Ok pop-pickers, for #tunetuesday the call is out for #legendaryguitarwork. I'm going back to 1973 for this, from the legend that is Bert Jansch. https://youtu.be/FHYE7etshpM?feature=shared