poppy

By all accounts he was a lovely man.

cacophonic

Intergalactic ~ Beastie Boys

Love the Glenn Miller sound

I Would Walk 500 Miles ~ The Proclaimers

I've finished The Last Time They Met. I like Anita Shreve's writing very much and have another on my TBR pile now Fortune's Rock. I'll look for The Weight Of Water and Wedding In December, at the library for sometime later....thanks for the recommendations, Pontalba and Julia. The ending of this book took me completely by surprise! Very clever. This book's main character, Linda, has her life story told from three different ages ....when she is 52, 26 and 17. I wonder if anyone else who read this, felt that her character was quite different at each of these periods? I found it quite hard at the end to actually mesh her into one person. Given the ending though, it might have been written that way ....or it might just be me

I had an interesting experience one time when I discovered my instincts weren't wrong. I made an appointment with a chiropractor who came highly recommended by someone from the Arthritis Foundation. She had written a newspaper article praising his abilities and I even rang her to get her first-hand opinion. I found him a very strange, intense little man, who said I must stop taking all medication I was on (prescribed by a doctor and with instructions not to suddenly stop taking it). He wanted me to book six further appointments. I came home and although I was encouraged to give him more of a chance to help, I cancelled all the appointments, because he made me feel uneasy. Several months later, I read in the paper that he had been charged with indecent advances to patients and had no formal qualifications whatsover. I had great pleasure in saying 'See, I told you!!'

Miles From Nowhere ~ Cat Stevens

Robert James Waller

cosmic

I emailed The Book Depository about a book that hadn't arrived and was very impressed how quickly I got a very polite and helpful reply from them. The book turned up the next day

Over Now ~ Alice In Chains

What's sad is that it was writtne in 1969 and is just as relevant today After the Gold Rush ~ Neil Young

I went to a friend's place yesterday and a few of us had a go on her karaoke machine. By coincidence, this was one of the songs sung she sang

War (What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing!) ~ Edwin Star

Diamond Dogs ~ David Bowie

That's very true, it was just asking for trouble. What amazes me is that leaders with quite severe depression, Churchill was a good example, still managed to do their job. Depression can make it very difficult to function and you have to admire leaders who carry on regardless (albeit that some made very bad decisions)

SO exciting Muggles. Glad it all went smoothly with no dramas. You'll have to tell us some of the tales after your grand-daughter visits. I was just looking at some of the photos of the Obama's dog Bo, he's absolutely gorgeous

Sorry Dex, I can't help at all. For some reason Rush is completely missing from my musical knowledge. Maybe they just never made it big here or else my attention wandered at the time

aquilegia

sixpence

algebra

shine

Lawrence Durrell

That last one sounds fascinating K. What an interesting hypothesis that most leaders have some sort of mental illness. It's certainly very obvious in the likes of Hitler and Mussolini and anyone who is prepared to sacrifice so many people's lives for their cause. What always astounds me is that such a ridiculous little man like Hitler could be so persuasive. You just have to watch him making his speeches and you see how ludicrous he was.