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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Will look out for them. Sounds just right for me
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Music...it's been with me through my life making me smile and cry in equal measure. Just listening to Steve Winwood and was thinking what a year 1986 was for what I classed as classic albums. Winwood had 'Back In The High Life' and Peter Gabriel had 'So and that's all I thought there were as I'd classed to 80's as naff for  'my' music ' - but then I checked and realised 1986 also saw Bob Palmer with 'Riptide', Simpy Red with 'Picture Book' and even Bob Womack did Womagic (not one of his best)....and not forgetting Paul Simon with 'Graceland'. 
    Can never pick a favourite song, artist or album as it all depends on how I'm feeling at the time - apt really as Steve Winwood is now doing Split Decision..
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Funny, but not surprising I suppose, but I could quickly think of 5 albums from 1986 that I thought were classics, and none would be the same as yours !!

    Prince  Evolution
    The Smiths The Queen is Dead
    Billy Bragg Talking with the Taxman about Poetry
    Elvis Costello Blood and Chocolate
    House Martins London 0 Hull 4
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    The beauty of individual taste eh?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I have just completed my new gardening smock.  I found the old one in a charity shop 30 years ago and wore it for gardening and the odd spot of decorating.  It was nearly threadbare, so I picked it apart and made a paper pattern from it.  I found five pairs of jeans on the £1 rail in another charity shop, picked them apart and re-assembled them into a replica of the old smock, with a couple of refinements in the pocket department.  I'd show you a photo only my PC refuses to upload them to this website, only to FB.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We have lovely bin men  <3  I just saw the fortnightly  Garden Bin collection lorry go past up the rise ... I realised OH hadn't remembered and rushed out and shouted 'Am I too late?' ... 'Just pull it out and we'll get it on the way back' the chap shouted back, and he was as good as his word ... bless them.  Of course, it helps that we live on a no through road, but they are a particularly good natured crew  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    We have lovely bin men  <3  I just saw the fortnightly  Garden Bin collection lorry go past up the rise ... I realised OH hadn't remembered and rushed out and shouted 'Am I too late?' ... 

    Anyone who remembers Lonnie Donegan's "My Old Man's a Dustman" will know that the standard response is: "No - jump up on the cart".
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fortunately Norwich's 'elf n safety training wouldn't allow that 🤣

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813

    Dovefromabove 

    Just for you as I know you get a £1.00 when " deterring cats " are mentioned.

    I have a small front garden planted with wild flower plants and it creates a good hiding place for frog and mice.

    I have 3 cats from neighbours who come and think they have the right to kill the residents for fun.

    I keep the bedroom window open with a bowl full of water ready to give the white one a bath.

    The little black one has now learnt to leap a hedge when I open the front door but the tabby stands sideways , arches its back and spits at me.

    So 2 to 1 to me.

    No cats were harmed in this story.
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Aaaargh!  No no no ... it’s not me!!!! It’s @Hostafan1 who gets the money ... he uses it for his holidays!!! 
    💷 💷 💷 🏖 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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