Madeleine

Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond

I guess that's why they call it the blues - Elton John

Summertime - Fun Boy Three (my favourite version of the Gershwin song)

Wasn't Richard also a hostage for quite a while, and the English people had to pay a fortune in ransom for him, which didn't make him very popular! I didn't know about the Far Right adopting him,they need to do a bit of research I think! I think he died abroad as well, as you say he spent little time in England at all despite being King.

That sounds very frightening, I hope he gets better soon. I haven't heard of croup for years, I think one of the treatments used to be opening a window, presumably to let in fresh air. I wonder if that's a function that the nebuliser does, getting more oxygen into their system.

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

How Long - Ace

Sweet Child of Mine - Guns n Roses

Long haired lover from Liverpool - Jimmy Osmond (possibly one of the worst songs ever made, although by all accounts he's a lovely guy).

Club Country - The Associates

I read 25 books in 2025, rather appropriately. Here's to 2026! Murder in York by J R Ellis - this is the latest in the Yorkshire set cases of DCI Oldroyd,who's normally based in Harrogate but is in York just before Christmas on a course, and on an evening off he decides to join one of York's famous ghost tours. And guess what, there's a dead body right under his nose, discovered in one of York's spooky snickleways. He's asked to help the local force investigate, the victim was a known figure and much disliked local landlord who refused to carry out repairs to his shoddy properties, so there is a long list of suspects. But when 2 homeless men are murdered, the case takes a different turn, and some of the police think they may have a serial killer taunting them, but Oldroyd has other ideas. This is very much a police procedural, with some nice humour and some lighter diversions into the officers' private lives, and it also has much to say about the dangers faced by the homeless, and also the issue of rogue landlords. Despite that, this was a fairly cosy crime read, and one of my Christmas reads. 7/10

Go wild in the country - Bow Wow Wow

Run for Home - Lindisfarne

She's Leaving Home - the Beatles