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An irregular, irreverent and often irrelevant blog!
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Incredible that this twitter web service started by a guy with a courier business idea after wanting to make a more ‘live’ version of LiveJournal
I never thought that starting a blog would be such an effort but time constraints and hosts hardware contraints have made it so. That and being esily distracted and busy with other stuff.
So bear with me while the content of this blog settles in and I get used to posting.
Music is my no’1 hobby so that will be the focus. Making, playing (recordings not an instrument unfortunately!) and reviewing live & recorded stuff. It’s what I’ve done for the last 25 years or so, so why stop now.
My first record was probably a sing along single on Pickwick bought for me when I was a toddler and I definitely remember listening to a Pinky & Perky album. My youthful listening was shaped by my mothers love of Beatles followed by Disco (well plastic disco of Boney M, Abba and Brotherhood of Man). I also remember repeatedly playing a Rolling Stones 45 that my mum had in her collection from before I was born … can’t remember which track it was or whether it still exists at the family house.
My first actual chosen and purchased record was Baggy Trousers by Madness - still a pukka record and a worthy addition to anyones record collection. A favourite at the school discos along with The Specials, Adam Ant etc.
Here is a cool poem I read the other day
Do not undermine your worth
by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different,
that each of us is special.
Do not set your goals
by what other people deem important.
Only you know
what is best for you.
Do not take for granted
the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life,
for without them, life is meaningless.
Do not let your life slip through your fingers
by living in the past nor for the future.
By living your life one day at a time,
you live all the days of your life.
Do not give up
when you still have something to give.
Nothing is really over
until the moment you stop trying.
It is a fragile thread that binds us to each other.
Do not be afraid to encounter risks
It is by taking chances
that we learn how to be brave.
Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love is to give love;
The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;
The best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Do not dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams
is to be without hope;
To be without hope is to be without purpose
Do not run through life so fast that you forget
not only where you have been, but also where you are going.
Life is not a race, but a journey
to be savoured each step of the way.
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