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A Second Hand Turban And A Crystal Ball ~ Bing Crosby

I'm a big fan of EM Forster, particularly A Room With a View and Howard's End. This is equally good, but I got so annoyed with Adela and her lies and the strife she put Aziz through, that I didn't enjoy it nearly as much. I felt the same way about Atonement. India fascinates me too. I very much enjoyed The Jewel in the Crown and MM Kaye's autobiographical books. My Great Grandfather was there with the British Army in the late 1800's, and my Grandfather's sister was born there. I totally sympathise with India wanting to end British rule.

Careless Hands ~ Mel Tormé

Bloomin' heck, Luna! You'll be absolutely over it all! Hope you feel much better soon and can go home xx 😘

manners were something to behold. I hoped he wasn't the kind of chap who was forever checking his hair in the mirror and applying some kind of highly perfumed stinky pomade. Anyway, putting his affectations aside, it was time to test his culinary skills. 'Mate, I'd like you to make me a perfect mille-feuille; eggs florentine with two beautifully cooked poached eggs, and a birthday cake with chocolate ganache. You have ...

Not Fade Away ~ Buddy Holly

I was wondering this too. Hope you're all OK, Luna xx 😘

, another big plus as Rosie only liked classical music, with a little rap thrown in. I needed to find out more about his chef training. He might be able to pull the wool over Daddy and Rosie's eyes by saying he'd trained under the 'great Marilyn Manson' but I'm not that wet behind the ears. I knew ...

Baby, I Love Your Way ~ Peter Frampton

That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be ~ Carly Simon

a chat to him about the now vacant position of Head Chef. Philbert was an interesting character who fancied himself as a bit of a hipster. His luxurious beard was neatly trimmed and he wore his moustache handlebar style. The particular thing going for him was that he was heavily tattooed on every piece of visible skin. Rosie HATED tattooes. He had trained under the great ...

Knocking At Your Back Door ~ Deep Purple

I made a mental note that Brixham City Council employees weren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree so it shouldn't be too hard to worm our way out of any future complaints. Right, time to get back to more important issues. I went looking for ...

When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano ~ Glenn Miller

might come back to bite us in the posterior. I decided to grab the bull by the horns, as if were, and ring the Brixham City Council. 'Revolting here, Jonathan Algernon Revolting. I'm just ringing concerning a complaint I believe you've had regarding a food poisoning outbreak at our premises? We have traced it to our chef who, behind our backs, was not following health and safety guidelines. His employment has since been terminated and the whole kitchen has been thoroughly disinfected and fumigated.' 'Thank you for contacting us Mr Revolting, but you do realise ...

Some really great songs on that list and many of my favourites. I'm surprised there's nothing there of Burt Bacharach's and Dionne Warwick's, though. Gentle on My Mind is a lovely song. Tom Smothers must have been ahead of his time politically, sounds like he stood for important issues. Very different from his brother.

Bitter Sweet Symphony ~ The Verve

'm 'appy to 'elp any toime. Jus' giv me a ring on tha blower.' 'Will do, mate!' Here was one reliable tradesman, at least and not a single flirtatious or saucy comment directed at Rosie. 'Can you recommend any other tradesmen of a similar ilk to you? We've found recent ones to be thoroughly unreliable and frankly quite dodgy.' 'Personally,' said Daddy, 'I've had no problem with any of them. Culpa mendacium apud te!' 'I'm not interested in your medicine, Major, along with your psycho babble! Would you please just ...

Blind Willie McTell ~ Bob Dylan

about the difficulties you seem to be having with tradesmen,' said Daddy. 'I ... well, we think, actually, that it indicates some deep seated psychological problem, possibly a borderline personality disorder or pathological jealousy? These kinds of things usually stem from childhood, you know, perhaps father was a drain layer or a boilermaker or even a mechanic and you took a dislike to his dirty and smelly overalls? Now I have had some experience in treating these disorders and I would like to help you.' 'What an absolute lot of rot! My father ...

Hold On ~ Alabama Shakes

march in here uninvited, shove his tools under our noses and start flirting with Rosie! I suspect he had some nefarious purpose in mind, I'm not falling for that trick! I put a quick call in to Botchitt and Leakie, but unfortunately they were tied up in some legal proceedings ... professional negligence or something. We really needed our loo problem fixed or we wouldn't be able to open, not to mention the inconvenience of trekking a km or so every time nature called. I looked up the yellow pages and found ...

Welcome back, Angury and happy 2024 reading 😊

You always have such a beautiful tree, Muggle. I've gone for a small live fir tree in a container now, which I can bring inside on a sack barrow. Our local community decorate their letterboxes so I use up some of the extra decorations for that. Took down the tree decorations yesterday, which is very organised for me 😂

Clap For the Wolfman ~ The Guess Who