This is a sort of continuation from last week in that I came across this indirectly as a result of the musical journey BBB started me on. In an idle moment, whilst listening to Afro Celt Sound System I hit Wikipedia to find out more about Uilleann Pipes. From there I looked at Northumbrian Smallpipes and that page lists notable players of the Northumbrian Smallpipe at the bottom. I was intrigued to see a woman listed there as women folk musicians seem to be in the minority. I went to look at the page about Kathryn Tickell and then hit YouTube….and then Amazon. The album I came away with (and it was very hard to only pick one!) was Debateable Lands. I will buy the rest when I win the lottery!
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Almost a year one of my favourite WoW bloggers posted a song on his blog and having really enjoyed it I tracked it down and bought the album.
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This week’s music post is later than I wanted but real life interfered and although I knew what I wanted to post I just couldn’t find the time to sit down and do it. This week’s music is from just 2 albums. Although very different both albums had the same attraction for me, music I was already very familiar with played in a way I wasn’t used to hearing them. Incidentally I came across both whilst listening to ClassicFM. I don’t listen to the radio much apart from travelling to and from work. On weekdays I usually listen to Radio 2 because I really like to listen to Sarah Kennedy in the morning; she’s just right for such an ungodly hour and always manages to make me smile. In the evenings, if I’m heading in on nights it’s Chris Evans or whatever happens to be on if I’m heading home from a day shift. At weekends though (and occasionally in the evening if I don’t like what ever’s on after 7pm) I listen to ClassicFM although the ads irritate the life out of me they irritate me less than Mo Dutta, there’s something about his voice that’s like chalk on a blackboard and it sets my teeth on edge.
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I went back to see my GP on Monday night to get the results of my blood test expecting to be told I am pre-menopausal. The results were a bit of a surprise…apparently I appear to have gone through the menopause and be coming out the other side. The test I had measures FSH levels and she said that if it was in the twenties I would be considered menopausal. My level was 108! I think the reason I was most surprised is because when I was referred to a gynaecologist less than 3 years ago I asked her if the trouble I was having with my periods was the start of the menopause; she laughed derisively and told me it would be years before I hit the menopause - I was gutted at the time.
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Well I didn’t get tagged but I saw this over at Softi’s and couldn’t resist! I think it came out rather well. I’m not going to tag anyone but if you want to make your own album cover the rules are very simple.
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Last weekend I was over at Ro’s site and found myself browsing through the mp3 player in his side bar (I am very envious, I wish I could find one for WordPress that would hold that many songs!). I started listening to stuff and then, as if by magic, found myself at Amazon ordering a stack of CDs. All stuff that I used to have on vinyl at one time that is either gone or so warped now it’s unplayable. I had planned something completely different for my mp3 player this weekend but now you will have a selection from my new acquisitions.
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For this week’s musical offering I knew I wanted to include a couple of tracks by Martyn Bennett but when it came down to it, I just couldn’t pick 2 or 3. Sadly this wonderful musician died tragically young. It’s impossible not to listen to his music and yearn to know how he would have developed and progressed. Most of the tracks are taken from his album Grit, written when he was dying.
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I had a busy afternoon yesterday. First I had to take Megan for her diphtheria, tetanus and polio booster, then we all had to go to Megan’s school for a meeting with her form teacher and head-of-year about the problems she’s having at school. As expected the jab was a nightmare. All the kids had it at school several weeks ago, but Megan had gone into meltdown and got so upset they couldn’t do it so they asked for me to arrange to get it done at our GP’s surgery. Megan has a fear, not so much of needles, as of pain. She can fall and hurt herself and deal with it just fine, it’s anticipated pain that is such an issue. If she knows it’s going to hurt, even slightly, she just goes into a panic. We had discussed the jab several times in advance and talked about situations where she had hurt herself and dealt with it OK and how the jab wouldn’t be as painful; about times in the past where she has had to have needles and it hasn’t been nearly as bad as she thought it would be. It was all a complete waste of time! As soon as we got in there she started to panic. I had warned the surgery in advance and the nurse who gave her the booster was so patient with her. After about 10 minutes of persuading, it was done. I’m always really torn, I do feel sympathetic - while completely out of proportion, Megan’s fear is genuine. On the other hand I always end up feeling very frustrated and cross with her and have to bite my tongue not to tear a strip off her.
I love gadgets and gizzmos. I also love them on my blog and have installed an mp3 player on my sidebar. I’d like to try and change the music regularly. probably a couple of different tracks of 4 or 5 different albums. I spend a lot of time at my PC and every second of that is plugged into some music! Hopefully people will find stuff that they haven’t come across before but also maybe you’ll hear something and do a “if you like that, you’ll love this” kind of thing. More tripe »
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For years I have been joking that I can’t wait for hot flushes, being so nesh it might be nice to be warm for a change. Well they say “be careful what you wish for” and it’s come back to bite me in the arse! They started very gradually after New year. So gradually that I wasn’t sure if that’s what was happening. One night in early February David and I went out to the local folk club. We saw a great band, Uiscedwr, and had a nice night out. I’d had a couple of ciders and was pleasantly mellow. Unfortunately the cider meant I woke up about 3am, busting for a wee. I slipped out of bed and went to the loo and as I headed back to bed it was like someone had turned a flame-thrower on me. I had just enough time to thing “I think I’m going to faint, I need to get back to bed quickly” and that’s the last thing I remember until I heard David calling me.
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