Remembering Miss Snickers!

Miss Snickers friend Charlie asked his Mama Alice to create this sweet memorial slideshow for her, and sing "You Are Wonderful Tonight." - it's a real tear jerker...

We Shall Remember Them!

'In Flanders Fields', is perhaps the most famous poem from WWI, is by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
A doctor in charge of a field hospital, he saw his friend killed during the Second Battle of Ypres, he is reputed to have written the poem the very next day in 1915.
Poppies would have been a familar sight to him, as they grew in great numbers in the spoiled soil of the battlefields & in the cemeteries of Flanders.
The second poem in the video, is a well known excerpt from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon.

Bobby Goldsboro - Honey!

As today is my late Mother's birthday, a very favourite song of hers from 1968...

It's deeply sentimental lyrics always made tears prick our eyes when we listened to 'Honey' together, and it does even more so now I listen alone.

Mother's Theme Music - 'Stranger on the Shore'!

Written by clarinetist Acker Bilk for his young daughter & originally named "Jenny" after her, the piece "Stranger on the Shore" was later used as the theme tune to the 1961 BBC TV drama series called Stranger on the Shore, and has been know as that ever since.
I remember watching the serial as a child with my Mother and the haunting music became a favourite of hers.

In fact it was the first UK recording of the 1960s to reach Number One in the US charts.
We listened to "Stranger on the Shore" together many, many times over the years and the more I learnt of my Mothers past, the more it's melancholy chords seemed to sum up her life.
When she died fours years ago this early morning and I subsequently had to choose a piece of music for her cremation, it was the obvious choice.

A late afternoon image taken @ Brighton, last November - the TV drama was filmed there...

"Here I stand, watching the tide go out
So all alone and blue
Just dreaming dreams of you
I watched your ship
As it sailed out to sea
Taking all my dreams
And taking all of me
The sighing of the waves
The wailing of the wind
The tears in my eyes burn
Pleading, "My love, return"
Why, oh, why must I go on like this?
Shall I just be a lonelyStranger on the Shore?"

Words by Robert Mellin

Funny Cats - 'Woody' style drinking and shower - now a Memorium Tribute to DemonSpawn!

Originally posted 15/09/09
Friend Wilma's cat, appropriately called The Demon Spawn is on the crazy side, so when she found an even more eccentric puss's You-Tube video she had to share it on her blog.
And, as I always thought cats hated getting wet, it amused me greatly too, hence posting it again here.

Postscript.
Was shocked to find this @ Wilma's today...

Stimpy the DemonSpawn
September 15, 1993 ~ September 18, 2009

May he be showing his feisty spirit over @ the Rainbow Bridge!

Luciano Pavarotti [1935 - 2007]

It's hard to believe it's two years today since the world lost his wonderful voice!
Pavarotti was without doubt one of the finest operatic singers of his generation, and one of the all time greats.
This is his final performance - singing Nessun Dorma @ the Torino Winter Olympics 2006...

Elvis - Moody Blue!

It was 32 years ago yesterday since the 'King of Rock & Roll' died - Wilma reminded me!
I have special memories of 'It's Now or Never' relating to an affair on the Isle of Man in 1975.
I was 21 and fell in love for the very first time.
But, this is my all time favourite Elvis song as it is me to T, especially @ the moment...