Whilst Christmas is just around the corner (crikey it’s less than ten days away now!) I’m feeling far from festive at present. I’m chocka-block with cold and am totally and utterly run down. I’ve spent the past three weeks suffering with an endless bout of bugs and quite frankly I’m fed up with myself. To lift my spirits and to get me back onto the festive bandwagon, I’ve asked Alexa to play me a range of ‘holiday hits’. If there’s one way (or anyway at all for that matter) to pull me through, it’s almost always through the media of …
Music
How frickin hard can it be to choose an outfit for an evening spent in the dark?! Having spent the past forty minutes changing tops and alternating dresses I eventually settled on my trusty dungaree dress paired with an off-the-shoulder striped top and a Tori Amos necklace from a concert way back when. Isn’t it weird how we plan to put the effort in and to look a little different for that ‘special night’ yet we end up straightening our hair into the same style and turning to the ‘safer’ clothing options? I fully intended to go out tonight with …
For those of you who are thirty-something like myself you will know precisely why a biro pen could come in handy for a cassette tape. You may have also spent your weekends listening to the charts on the radio whilst having your fingers ready to press record on your cassette deck. I was one of those Music mad kids who would spend hours listening to the chart simply to record my favourite tracks and create a compilation of said songs which were often cut short by the radio presenter or worse adverts. Either way, I really enjoyed sitting and slicing …