I was tagged for this meme by Kat of Candles, Crafts and Whatnot.  Well, I kind of tagged myself because I thought it was a good one to do, so she very kindly tagged me anyway.

The Rules for the MEME are:

1. Put your Music Player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag your friends - Well I won’t tag but feel free to do it if you like.

I have 1437 songs in my iTune library.  My taste in music  is exceptionally diverse, so I thought it would pick a great mixture.  My iTunes could do with a lesson in shuffling because it not only picked out some of the more boring albums, that I never listen to, it repeated albums and didn’t go near many of my favourites!  But I stuck to the rules, even though I wanted to try again.

So here is the list it chose for me anyway.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
* Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound - Tom Paxton (Pretty true of most of my life)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A BOY?
* Unbreak My Heart - Il Divo (Who doesn’t?)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
* Oh Boy! - Buddy Holly (That just about says it)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
* Crying Game - Boy George (Never!)

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
* You Raise Me Up - Paul Potts (I suppose that could be true)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
* Take a Look at me Now - Phil Collins ;O)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
* I’m You - Leona Lewis (That may be about right, if my parents were alive)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
* I Can’t Get Started - Rod Stewart (Ha ha! That’s soooo true)

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
* All I Really Want - Alanis Morisette (!!)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
* Calling Me Angel - KD Lang (??)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
* Fire - Alison Moyet (It certainly has been in the past)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
* My One True Friend - Bette Midler (Well I am trying to love myself. Does that count?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
* Shake Your Body Down - Odyssey (He he)

WHAT WILL/DID YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
* Bésame Mucha - Sally Doherty (If I knew what it meant I might know if is is apt)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
* Angel Eyes - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music  (That would be nice)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
* É Luxo Só - Sally Doherty (Anybody understand this?)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
* Don’t Stop The dance - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music  (Yep I want to live for a long time yet)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
* Chimes of Freedom - Joan Baez & Bob Dylan (??)

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
* You Are Loved - Josh Groban (??)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
* Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morisette (I haven’t listened to all of these lyrics, but it doesn’t sound too nice)

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
* Blue Moon - Rod Stewart

*Don’t forget my 1st Blogoversary here on 27th.  There’ll be a fun competition and some cake :O)

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Victor Meldrew, Babs is off again.

This large box was delivered today and I wracked my brain (what little I have) to think of what we were expecting in the post.  Needless to say, I couldn’t think of anything that size.  “Ooh!” I thought “A lovely surprise, I love surprises.”  “Ooh” Sukie thought “A lovely big box to play in”

Well it was definitely a surprise for me.  Just look at what was inside!

Can you believe that?  What a waste of paper, and worse than that, they had stretched a double layer of plastic over the contents to stop it rattling about.  That’s more plastic to add to the mountains of waste plastic we have already. What is annoying is that it wouldn’t be needed if they sent it in the right size package!

Just to add insult to injury, the jolly thing is no good to me.  It’s a remote control for a camera, but it doesn’t work with my model!

Have you ever received such wasteful packaging?

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At Christmas, our neighbour hung some fairy lights on a tree at the bottom of his garden which, in effect, is also the bottom of our garden.  They are still there, flashing and blinking at us each time we look out of the window.

It’s only a couple of months, you might say.  You’d be wrong!  It wasn’t this Christmas he hung them there.  It was Christmas three or four years ago!

I took this photo through our back window which I might add, is where I sit blogging.

They’ve survived many a storm and when we’ve had really high winds, and the lights are blown down Mo and I laugh and say “Oh well they’ve finally gone.”  The next day they are back full gusto, flashing and blinking at us!  The lights went off during one storm and we decided that they would definitely come down now that they were broken.  The next day…. you’ve guessed it… there they were again!  He must have bought a new set.

I guess we have to accept that they are a permanent fixture.

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I Was given this award by Kat at Candles, Crafts and Whatnot I liked the sentiment so decided to post this one.

I must list 5 reasons why I think my life is “grand” I am supposed to pass it on, but any of you that would like to do it are welcome.

I think my life is grand because:

1. I have everything I need to have a happy life, but still have things to hope for.

2. I have a lot of hobbies to keep my mind active, like playing guitar, photography, painting and let’s not forget blogging!

3.  Since I started blogging, I have made some wonderful friends from different parts of the world. I didn’t expect it, or think it was possible!

4. I’m able to laugh easily. Every day Mo and I have a laugh and giggle over something, sometimes bringing tears to our eyes. Of late it has often been when Mo is on our Wii :O)

5. I have my faith. It has changed my life immeasurably, making me a much happier and more relaxed person.

I also received this award from Shinade at The painted Veil that came with a lovely message for me :O)

Thank you both!

One last thing!

If you look over at my sidebar you will see that it’s not long now to my first blogoversary.  Watch out for a fun post!

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I thought I’d post something a little different today.

This was my younger sisters beautiful cat.  He was a big fluffy Persian Red and his name was Jasper, after Jasper carrot the comedian.  Handsome wasn’t he?

From the beginning my sister trained him.  She bullied the poor little thing into submission… Joking!  He was quite a character as you can see.

Just look at the photo of him all dressed up in his shirt and tie.  He’s even holding the pen!  How cute is that?

The funniest thing was his regular showers. Have you ever seen such a thing?  He is sitting in about two inches of water too!  

“Play that water on my tum mum”

“Just clean my nose off a bit.  I don’t want any boogaloos left behind”

“Nearly finished mum?”

Now this is the life!  Snug as a bug in a rug”

Sadly, my sister can’t bring herself to replace his memory by getting another cat.

Don’t you think he was one gorgeous hunk of cat?

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UPDATE.

It’s fixed, and don’t let anybody say it was all my own fault!  ;O)

I’m sorry but I am having trouble uploading to my blog.  It just suddenly stopped, saying I was out of memory.  I have tried several fixes but nothing is working at the moment.  Until I can get help from my host I’m stumped!  I hope it isn’t too long before I get back to posting though.  Thanks for trying to get me functioning again jaffer!

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Do I not smile for you all, every day? Does my smiley face not wink at you every time you visit my blog?

Why then have all my smileys on Blogerella vanished into thin air?

I logged in a few days ago and I had a long list of zeros, on both of my blogs!  I have mailed Blogerella to ask what’s happened, but, as yet, I’ve had no answer from them.

If you think I’m deserving of a smile back, maybe all you lovely people who voted for my posts wouldn’t mind repeating your votes.  I don’t suppose that will bring back all of my previous votes, but some is better than none don’t you think?

Thank you :O)

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I just had to post this video.  I received it the other day in an email, therefor I imagine it has no copyright issues.

I can’t believe that a two year old can learn, and sing a complete song, without a lot of prompting by an adult - It’s so sweet!

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How could we, in the UK, have this much snow and me not write a post about it?  It’s the most snow we’ve had in many years, and I have missed it so much.  When I was young we often had heavy snow and had great fun with snowball fights and building snowmen.  Sadly, in more recent years it has been very thin on the ground - literally!   France has kindly sent us barrel loads of it, and there’s more to come!

I know you people in Canada and parts of America are probably bored with snow, but please humour me, this is exiting for Mo and I.  Mo took this photo of our car yesterday and it continued snowing all day and night.

She took these others today.  I’m a bit upset though.  I couldn’t go out in it because I wasn’t well enough but  I’ll make sure I go out tomorrow!

I’ll try not to bore you with any more snow posts, honest.

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A while back there was a lot of talk about the 70’s & 80’s perms.  I promised JD that I would try and find an old photo of my perm disaster.

I had a perm in the 70’s that was such a tight ‘Afro’ perm that my hair looked really short.  Actually if you pulled one of the curls, you would see that they were like corkscrews.  They curled round and round….and round….and…. It was so tight that it would not drop out, no matter how many washes it had. I actually had to grow it out.

Here is a photo of me growing my hair out, long enough so I could finally get the perm cut off!   Believe it or not, this was one of the better ‘grow out’ stages.  It looked far worse than that when it was a bit shorter.  The curls kind of stood out sideways! Unfortunately I can’t find a photo showing that stage.  Maybe I hid away from the world.  Well you would, wouldn’t you?

How about the top?  This was a top to be envious of!!  Those are actual tassles and beads hanging from an embroidered square.  Have you ever seen such a top?  It was very ‘with it’ at the time, but I think I would have sooner been without it!  Needless to say I didn’t buy it for myself.  It was a gift, and you have to please the person that gave it to you by wearing it.

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