Christmas Comes Too Early.

 Sleeping it off.

This photograph is not like it seems.  It could be AI couldn't it just?

Someone had left a can of Heineken in one of the pockets of the dog chewed couch.

The Husky decided to have a nap and she looks like me after Christmas Day dinner.   

We would be hoping that Billy Smart or Mary Chipperfields Circus would appear on the television screen. Those were the days.

We are having Dexter roast beef for Christmas Dinner with my homegrown parsnips and Brussel sprouts with some bought organic spudatoes.  What are ye having?

"Lights Out In West Cork."

 I took this photograph last night when we had a power cut during Storm Darragh:

Just like our Grandparents winters.  I don't think they had scented candles but they give the ambience of what it must have been like.

I suppose they also had Tilley lamps and oil lamps and went to bed early in winter?  

Father would cut a cardboard box into a television shape and place it on his head and say:

" Good evening.  This is the news".😊

I think we had a gas television when I was growing up🤔?

Our power was only out for half an hour thankfully.

Here's Michael Schenker and his group who I saw in Ballyshannon in Donegal in 2o23.  

I knew I could put a music video link in there somewhere.  Time to play "air guitar" me thinks.

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The Cats Washing Day.

 It's been horrible wet and windy here today.

You wouldn't put a milk bottle out in this weather.  Even the country rats are wearing fur coats.

It's certainly not clothes drying weather outdoors.  

I had a shower and put the washing machine on a sixty minutes wash and then J put the washing in the tumble dryer and folded it and placed in a tub on top of the chest freezer and Muzzmuss decided to make it into her 'day' bed.

It's not only me who likes to repurpose stuff.

I am going to have a couple of hot Irish whiskeys (Jameson) to help me sleep through Storm Darragh.

That's my excuse anway.  Take care and lets hope we still have electricity and T'web tomorrow.

The Cat And Dog Relax And So Do We.

 Scruffy the Main Coon cat and Heidi the German Shepherd (ess) relaxing on the couch.

Dogs and cats are known to be sworn enemies.  This is not the case if they are introduced at the kitten or puppy stage.

Every night the dogs come in and have their tea and settle down with us.  Some of the cats climb up their cat tree and go to sleep.  Some even sit in front of the stove and some decide to reside on the couch or a human's favourite arm chair.

They all crash out and I light the stove and switch on the television and I pour a can of Guinness for myself.

The world outside is pitch black outside sunrise.  No street lights in the countrysidenext to the sea. We have at least seven months relaxing in front of the fire:

It's very windy today.  If the power goes we will watch the flickering flames dance in the stove and I have some scented candles to light if we need to.

Shelley An Orphan. On The Tube.

 My old friend who I met up every year to go to a Prog Rock festival or two usually in Blighty (once in Germany) emailed me mentioning a band that I really like back in the eighties.

They were a Gothic dreamy pop duo from Bournemouth who appeared on stage with an art artist and some classic musicians.

I saw them on The Tube in around 1987.  This was a live music programme from Newcastle on Channel 4 every Friday tea time and presented by Jools Holland and Paula Yates who is no longer with us.

I instantly fell head over heels with this band and when I went to the pub I would rave about this great new band.

My friend in his message told me that the female vocalist from Shelley An Orphan died in 2015.  This made me feel very sad and I wish so much I had seen them play live.

Thanks to good old YouTube I have managed to find a video of them in 1987 on The Tube.

They named themselves after the English poet Percy Shelley.  

Enjoy:

Did you watch The Tube back in the eighties when music was great?

American Gardeners Perhaps?

 There are not many gardening programmes on the old electric fish tank at the moment.  So I do my viewing on good old YouTube.

Here's an American gardening programme  I found for you.  Hope it makes you laugh.  It made me laugh.  Hope it makes Debby (Life's Funny Like That) laugh?

A music post tomorrow.  

Mushrooms And Pints.

 We watched Bill Bailey and Shaun Ryder go for a few pub walks on Channel 4 on Sunday night.

You can watch it on You Tube later.   They walk the Somerset countryside and seek refreshment in a few of the ale houses along the way.  The even go the Glastonbury festival site.  I went there in 1989 and met a lot of characters in the 200000 tent city which I have wrote about on here.  Just put Glastonbury in my blog search if you wish to read some of my festival tales?

Bill seems to have the gift of making people open up and it was a walk/walks full of anecdotes.

Shaun is a real tough northerner with the gift of self deprecation which seems to be instilled in us northern folk.  He's also very funny and the anecdotes he can remember are very entertaining.

I found this programme really enjoyable in the vein of Mortimer and Whitehouse Go Fishing.  It's not so much what they are doing it is what they are taling about.

Well done Channel 4.  You made TV Heaven.

Any one else seen this programme? Who would you like to go on a pub walk with?  Kate Bush and Britney Spears would be two of my choices.   Oh Julia Bradbury is into walking isn't she?