Take me back…

Last past weekend, I was really happy to see that during the evening they played some real classic tv. They had “Dads Army”, “Open all Hours”, “Keeping up Appearance”, “Too the manor born” and so many more. I spent the whole night watching classic television.

So lovely, I just sat there all Saturday night with a good book, and all these classic television shows. They just don’t make them like that anymore. I don’t know about the rest of you, but on our tv, they seem to be making more and more “reality” tv shows. They are so boring.

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Cover Song

Come on, let’s be honest here. We’re in a safe space. Are there covers you prefer over the originals? I don’t know about the rest of you, but the radios keep playing reboot of classic songs. While they’re fine remakes, they play like ALL the time. We make bets at our work when the radio stations will play them.

So when I say prefer a cover over an original, it doesn’t mean you don’t like the original. Just, you might like a cover that little bit better. All the ones on the radio, I actually don’t like, lol. They’re fine, but these remixes encourage no originality, whatsoever.

Here a few of my favourite covers: Again, I like all the originals, just fine, I just prefer these ones a little more.

Sorry, lol…I cry at this version.

30 day song challenge … Day 14 – 16

Day 14 … A song you’d love to be played at your wedding

I have always wanted this to be the song we’d have our first dance too. While, pictures of people who passed, who are important to us are on the wall or something. I think Terry would appreciate having something that everyone would concentrate on, rather than him, lol

Faith Hill – There You’ll Be

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Day 15 … A song you like that’s covered by another artist

Jonathan Young – My Lullaby (Disney’s The Lion King 2)

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Day 16 … A song that’s a favourite classic

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The Classics

I was just sitting down and was watching “Cheers”…What a fantastic show! Even if Shelley Long should have never left and Kirstie Alley is a Scientologist. What a fantastic show! With Danny Elfman saying as well that they think the Simpsons will be ending still, it got me too thinking. I personally would love to see #TheSimpsons continue, I don’t think it’s THAT bad. Still better than a lot of stuff on tv right now. But I can take comfort in that there will definitely be reruns of it for years =D

Do you have any favourite classic shows that you could watch over and over again.

Carry On

When I was younger and we were at my Nanna’s and Pops. They had this VHS set (yes, VHS) of this UK comedy called “Carry On”. There were a while rang of them. I never really thought about before, these people are/were real (I think 90% of them are dead) Probably once a year they show all of them on the tv series, over a week or so.

Carry On – 60 rare photos of the Stars on set

Does anyone else do that? You watch a movie or series over years and years, you don’t even think that they are just not here anymore. Because you are watching them at that particular time in their life. It doesn’t occur to you, that it’s years old.

Screen vs Books

I’ve realised that over the pass month or so. Most of the books that I have been reading have finally been not only classic novels. I’ve also only ever seen most of them either in the movies or on the television screen. Below are a few examples:

• Agatha Christie Novels
• The Picture of Dorian Gray

It feels like there has been a definite theme going for myself  this month and it’s been fantastic! I’ve really been enjoying the books that I have seen on screen, come to life via the written word. I really enjoyed reading Agatha Christie and I HIGHLY recommend them. I’ve got another on the back burner, on hold, in the Library.

Here comes the old age classic question:

Book vs Screen?

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A classic quote from my Mum

Too re-read or not too re-read?

At the moment apart from the 3 books I am currently…That’s right you heard me…I am reading THREE books at the same time. When I went to my local Library recently though I was so happy to see an old favourite of mine. Cassandra Clare’S “Clockwork Angel”, the first book from her series “The Infernal Devices”.

I have not yet added the book to my “currently reading” books list on Goodreads.  Yet, here I am now reading this FOURTH book as well and I am loving it! Normally I can only read two books at the same time, and that is usually because I leave one at my house and one at my partners house.

Long Hair, Don’t Care

I have this total love/hate relationship with my hair. I love it but I hate the maintenance of it too. My hair is now officially the thing that takes me the longest in the morning. It just gets full of so many tangles, I could honestly brush it at least 5 times a day and it would still be full of so many tangles.

Classic poems about long flowing locks and keepsakes Poets and hair: now that would make for an interesting literary study. There’s Lord Byron, of course, who, when he received requests from admiring young women for a lock of his hair, would send them some hair snipped from his dog. But many poets (Byron included) have […]

via 10 of the Best Poems about Hair — Interesting Literature

Other things that are happened this weekend:

• International Men’s Day 19th November – Yes, you gorgeous men you, it’s your day =D
• Stan Lee was in Adelaide this weekend…He was in Queensland last weekend, but I’m too sick to go to either =/ I really wanted to go to the one in Queensland…I LOVE Queensland!
• A lot of states around Australia had their states Christmas Pageants over this weekend…For me, it makes me feel like it’s the Christmas season started.

A good cleanout

So…I’ve been living in the house I am living in now for about 10 years so and the house before this one was larger. Meaning that we now have a LOT of boxes that have not been opened for a long time.

One of mine and my Mother’s goals this year is too clear out these boxes and see what we can get rid of. Now my Mum is always saying that they’re just my boxes and so I offered to start going through and after pulling out 4…That’s 4…of her boxes (I don’t know why she keeps telling everyone they are mine, when they are in her cardboard to even begin with) I finally managed to find my one…There’s possibly another one in there, but they are pretty much all hers.

Anyways, getting past that annoyance…It wasn’t easy to get to them either can I just tell you, because she’s put them all in her walk-in wardrobe, which has stuff on top of other stuff.

The first box that I pulled was full…just of full…of these books that I used to read all the time when I was teenager and some of my favourites that I haven’t read in year. The box also included a very random VHS tape of The Lord of the Rings. I took a few photos, just to show the collection…Oh, the memories they bring back…Especially the classic Judy Blume 3 in 1 books.