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A few weeks ago Stevie Turner kindly nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. As you can see from her post, if you scroll to the end of the comments you’ll note that I thanked her but said that I didn’t normally do these award things. However, as Stevie is a long time supporter of my blog I said I would give it some thought. Having done so I have decided not to do a proper job of it, but to…

  Last year I ran a couple of posts in which I dipped into the UK Charts – not something I do very often – and as they were well-received I thought I’d try it again. It is five months since the last one so I was expecting to see some changes, and as the Christmas takeover is behind us it’s kinda safe to look again. I’m playing you six tunes today, three of which are new entries this week and…

  One of my series of occasional posts is the one in which I share some music that I have recently been listening to on YouTube, which runs under the header of New Music. It has been a couple of months since I last did one of these, so it feels to me that the time is right for another set. As chance would have it there are some longish songs among the six I’m playing today, so don’t ever say I…

  Welcome to the second of my restyled monthly reviews. Hopefully WordPress won’t attempt to sabotage this one like they did with the first: they left it out of the Reader! I’m not a great fan of the Reader but follow my own blog just to check that my posts are in it. A useful tip if you don’t already do that yourself. But I don’t then ‘like’ my own posts too – I leave that to you! So, what did I…

Now that the weather here has returned to our usual summer – dull, drizzly and not too hot – it seems about time for a change of theme. I promised you last time that I’d be doing something different this week, and I’ve chosen to play some songs which have light in their titles. Just that word, no derivatives like lights, moonlight, daylight, lightning, just a simple light. I already have a list…

    After a couple of weeks of variations, I’m going back to the themes of summer and sunshine today. Given that the weather forecast is for storms this week maybe I should have rethought this, but it is still summer here and what would that be in the UK without a drop of rain? So I’m playing you three summer songs and two sunshine ones. As before, only one of these is new here, but they are all…