poppy

London Pride ~ Noël Coward (I read London Pride is a flowering plant that rapidly regrew after the bombing in WW2. Noël Coward wrote the song in recognition of how Londoners carried on in spite of the chaos around them, and to lift their spirits)

coiffeuse from The Lunatic Fringe. Unfortunately, nobody apprised me of the name before I was forcibly planted on a chair, wrapped in some kind of voluminous plastic cape and Bella came at me with scissors clacking. I tried to escape but Bella was a well-built lass, and one firm thrust from her hefty right arm had me re-seated with a painful thump. I looked appealingly towards Rosie hoping for help, but ...

Basin Street Blues ~ Louis Armstrong

Just started Dear Mrs Bird by A.J. Pearce

Why Worry ~ Dire Straits

Peckham, is a particular expert at what many mistakenly call 'vermin', but I prefer to think of as 'God's precious little creatures.' 'If you lot think I'm going to let these crackpots touch a single hair on my head, you've got another think coming! You can all just ...

I Can't Tell You Why ~ Eagles

office sporting a fluorescent green bowl cut. 'Darling, you look amazing,' I felt for the sake of harmony it best to appear complimentary, 'but I'm very concerned that you, Clyde, will completely alarm and unsettle the cats now. I really think it best if you leave right ...' But the cats proved me mistaken by surrounding Clyde with much purring and leg winding. 'Well, we can't stand around all day, work to be done, chop chop, Clyde.' 'Actually, Johnny,' said Rosie, 'we ...

High Hopes ~ Frank Sinatra

proved very successful, in fact all things considered, they were a bit of a disappointment. However, say lavvie, as my mother always used to remark, which I took to mean that things were always going down the gurgler or outdoor bog in our case. Growing up, we lacked any kind of mod cons. We walked barefoot to school, summer and winter, rain, hail and snow. Uphill both ways. But we were happy. Arriving home, I discovered Rosie hadn't done anything more exotic than visit the hairdressers, but I wondered if a vivid shade of purple might have a rather ...

You're My Best Friend ~ Queen

Exactly! 🤣

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim

I'll Never Smile Again ~ Frank Sinatra

(I'd completely forgotten about the new assistant, let alone his name 🤣 But I checked back😁) it snappy!' I barked. 'She's not here right now, she popped out to do some sort of lady thing. She left me in charge,' said Clyde Piper. 'What do you mean, some kind of lady thing??!! Oh, never mind, look I'm stuck outside the Nail and Copper Pub. Can someone come and get me?' 'I don't drive and I don't know when Rosie will be back. Hang on, I'll ring the vicar and get him to pick you up.' 'NOOOOOOOO ....' But too late ...

I'll Be Seeing You ~ Billie Holliday

-may-care, that's me.' 'Get 'im outta 'ere or we'll giv 'im a stompin'!' A couple of the heavies threw me out and kicked me for good measure ... just when I thought I was making such good progress. I limped to the nearest pay phone (my mobile had been smashed and rendered useless) and riffled through my pocket for loose change. I extracted four screws, a handful of whiskas fishy crunchy delights, a half-eaten hobnob, a steak knife, one chopstick but no ...

From The Beginning ~ Emerson, Lake and Palmer

louts aren't backwards in coming forwards when it comes to dosh.' 'So, yor a bit ofa soft sonofa*beep*, are ya?' asked Gunner Stone, 45½, from Hackney. 'I wouldn't say that!' I said indignantly, 'why only last week I ...

From Now On ~ Supertramp

unfortunately, seemed to be lacking in my audience. I continued, 'Then he had the audacity ...cheek and gall like, (I suspected I'd been using too complex words) to dump a ton or more of cat litter at my front door! We had to use the back door for days! It was most inconvenient and we lost heaps of customers, not to mention the cats deciding that was now their litter box!' There were several muffled guffaws. 'Where'd ya find diz bozzo?' asked Wilfie. Thinking he was addressing me, I went on to describe the Vicar, 'Well ...

So do I, Niko. We've had quite a dry winter. We went away for a few days to a notoriously high rainfall area hoping for a good storm ... it was fine the whole time we were there. Meanwhile at home we had the heaviest rain for months 😏😂

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning ~ Gordon MacRae

It's Only a Paper Moon ~ Ella Fitzgerald