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Best Ever Driving Song?

May 26, 2013 By jbmumofone 4 Comments

Carcraft are currently on the hunt for the UKs best ever driving song? I am sure this is a question most of you will find easy to answer. Me...not so much. Partly because I have a pretty chequered history of driving. It took me no less than seven attempts to pass my driving test. I MAY have crashed in one and there MAY have been a little but of vomiting in another but, like THEY say, seventh time's a charm. Don't they. I then drove for a grand total of about 12 months before deciding I hated it and sold my car. During that 12 months though I would never drive without music and I ...

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Carcraft, Driving, Music

Eurovision: The edited version

May 27, 2012 By jbmumofone 4 Comments

So, for those of you who missed it last night, here is a quick round-up of what happened at last nights Eurovision... UK: The Hump gave a lovely, but soon to be forgotten, performance dressed all in black. Hungary: Some leathered up boys sing a dodgy power ballad accompanied by the obligatory 40-something over-enthusiastic keyboard player. Albania: THERE'S A SNAKE ON YOUR CHEST, A SNAKE!!!!!   Oh, wait.  It's your hair. Lithuania:  Love is blind, and also apparently deaf.  Would have been so much funnier if everyone left before he took his blindfold off. Bosnia and Herzegovina: ...

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Filed Under: Ramblings Tagged With: Claudia Winkleman, Eurovision 2012, MC Hammer, Music

P is for Prodigy

April 18, 2012 By jbmumofone 7 Comments

P is for Prodigy

The year is 1995. The location is Glastonbury. Myself, and eight close friends, have just finished our GCSEs, some of us that very morning.  We are 16, full of hope, full of confidence, energy, eager for more excitement.  We are young. And we are at a festival. This weekend will forever remain one of my most truly treasured memories.  We were a group of schoolgirls, but good friends, who took ourselves off, drank a bit, smoked a bit, danced a lot, talked a lot and really just had a bloody good time together as friends.  It was magical. I suspect none of us then had any idea that ...

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Filed Under: Blogging from A-Z Challenge, Music Tagged With: 1995, Friendship, Glastonbury Festival, Hope, Music, Prodigy, Prodigy No Good

K is for …

April 12, 2012 By jbmumofone 13 Comments

I love people-watching.  Correction, I used to love people-watching.  Before I had a toddler.  Now I daren't take my eyes off him for a second incase he accidentally causes some formidable catastrophe by way of his ever-jiggling arms/legs/feet. Airports are the best places ever for people-watching.  Mr B and I spent two years commuting weekly between Cardiff and Dublin so we spent a lot of time doing this.  While waiting for our normally delayed Aer-Arann twin-prop we would often pass the time looking around at our fellow passengers and trying to guess what they did, or where they might be ...

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Filed Under: Blogging, Blogging from A-Z Challenge Tagged With: A-Z bloggers challenge, Blogging, Kings of Leon, Music, People watching, Use somebody

Death…

February 29, 2012 By jbmumofone 26 Comments

Death…

Pretty awful title I know. Is it distasteful to blog about death?  I am not sure. I recently lost an uncle to lung-cancer.  He had been a confirmed smoker, drinker, and perhaps partaker of other substances for all of his adult life. He was the youngest boy of a family of seven children, second youngest overall.  You could say he was a 'black-sheep'...but he was loved.  Loved by his parents, loved by his siblings, and loved at times by us, his nephews and nieces.  He was also a total pain in the arse to all of the above on many occasions when a little too much drink was in him. He ...

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Cancer, Death, Family, Mourning, Music, My Uncle P, Poetry

What’s on your MP3 player?

January 29, 2012 By jbmumofone 16 Comments

I have been tagged in this musical meme by the delightful Pink Oddy.  The rules are... Pop your MP3 player on Shuffle Inform you lovely readers of the first five tunes...AND NO CHEATING Tag another few lovely bloggers to do the same. Oh Christ, this could be DREADFULLY embarrassing, and Pink Oddy's were really cool.  She may wish she hadn't picked me for this one.  Here goes... 1. Suzanne Vega: Tom's Diner. Phew, not too shameful. 2. Paul Simon: You can call me Al I DEFY you not to dance around the kitchen to this right now 3. Depeche Mode: Just can't get ...

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode, Meme, Music, Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, Ting Tings, Tom's Diner

Mix-tape Monday #6: Number one song the day you were born.

January 15, 2012 By jbmumofone 13 Comments

Do you know which song was topping the charts the day you were born?  I didn't.  I do now and was pretty pleased to discover that for me it was...     How cool is that? To find out what everyone was throwing their shapes to when you made your entry into the world click here.  Then come right back here and let me know!   Am joining in with Mix-tape Monday hosted by the lovely Mummy to Boo over at I Want My Mummy.  To see everyone else's head on over via the magic button.         ...

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Blondie, Heart of Glass, Meme, MIx-tape Monday, Music

Mix-tape Monday #5: The first song that you bought

December 5, 2011 By jbmumofone 14 Comments

Linking up with Boo and Me again for Mix-tape Monday. The title says it all really. Oh, the shame. Here you go.... To check out the rest of this weeks  entries head on over to see Boo... Related Mum of One posts that you may like: Mix-tape Monday #4: A song from the best gig that you have ever been to. Mix-tape Monday #3: Songs that give you that lovin' feelin'. Mix-tape Monday #2: Guilty pleasures. ...

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Brother Beyond, Meme, MIx-tape Monday, Music, Shame, The Harder I Try

Mix-tape Monday #4: A song from the best gig you have ever been to

November 27, 2011 By jbmumofone 10 Comments

Linking up with Boo and Me again for Mix-tape Monday. I am lucky enough to have been to lots of gigs and a fair few festivals.  But for this entry it had to be something special.  I was lucky enough to see Janis Ian play at the teeny-tiny Warwick Arts Centre with my folks, and this song moved the whole crowd to tears... To check out the rest of this weeks  entries head on over to see Boo... ...

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Janis Ian, Meme, MIx-tape Monday, Music

Mix-tape Monday #3: Songs that give you that lovin’ feelin’

November 21, 2011 By jbmumofone 16 Comments

It is week three of Mummy to Boo's fab new music meme.  This week she has decided to slow things down a bit and the theme is... 'Songs that you listen to when you've got that lovin' feelin'.' My entry this week is an oldie but a goodie.  So grab your partner, snuggle up and enjoy... To check out the rest of the tape head on over to Boo and Me.  Happy Monday people. Related Mum of One Posts that you may like: Mix-tape Monday #2: Guilty Pleasures Mix-tape Monday #1: The song that makes you want to get up and dance. ...

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Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Meme, MIx-tape Monday, Music, PM Dawn, Set Adrift On Memory Bliss

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