Music

My 2019 in Music

I opened Spotify a few days ago to put some music on while I was in the car. A new playlist had popped up and it was a recommended one from Spotify that is my top tracks from this year.... Continue reading →
Come From Away illuminated sign from outside the theatre

Come From Away #HappyCanadaDay

Wow! At the beginning of last week, I entered a competition to win tickets to see Come From Away in London. I’ve been wanting to see it since I saw the trailer for the Broadway version (and then found out... Continue reading →

Music Monday v1

Music Monday is about sharing the music I’ve been listening to this week, I’ll try and be original and do different songs each week but if one or two get stuck they might get shared across multiple Music Monday posts.... Continue reading →
Currently

Currently…3rd October

The image below and the Currently prompts from RUKristin. Watching… I’m still working my way through Voyager. It’s often been on in the background while I’ve got on with other things. I’ve been watching Strictly Come Dancing although I’m not so excited... Continue reading →

Currently…26th January

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: Pretty Little Liars (Season 2) House M.D. (Season 1 – have gone back to the beginning while feeding. That way if Jaxon wakes up I already know what happens). Death in Paradise (Series 2 –... Continue reading →

Currently…25th August

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: The West Wing (Season 6 – I finished Season 3 as I wrote the post and somehow have made it through the rest in a week. It means I’ve got just over a season to go.... Continue reading →

Currently…

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: Criminal Minds (Season 6 and 7) How I Met Your Mother (Final season – how long is the wedding already???) The Big Bang Theory Reading: Mainly blogs and news articles rather than books. I did... Continue reading →

Currently…

Currently… image from rukristin Watching: Pacific Rim (So not my cup of tea but Our Sidekick wanted to watch it so we did) Criminal Minds (Season 1 and 2) Reading: Knitting Yarns – edited by Ann Hood My friend Hannah’s... Continue reading →

thursday tunes

As well as podcasts now I’m walking to and from work there’s a lot of music being played each day (and quite a lot of dancing too sometimes!). Here are the top 5 current favourites, here’s Thursday Tunes: Dancing in... Continue reading →

312: Wednesday Wondering v.5

We live in a world where we have a bunch of information at our fingertips – we unlock our phones and Google to our hearts content, but what about all those random questions, why was I looking and what did... Continue reading →

284: #WednesdayWonderings

We live in a world where we have a bunch of information at our fingertips – we unlock our phones and Google to our hearts content, but what about all those random questions, why was I looking and what did... Continue reading →

195: 15 Day Challenge – July 13th

Joining with Sarah from Life of Love for the 15 Day Challenge. List Your Favourites…. Songs Your Sofa by Becky Higg (but there’s no video! Watch this one instead – So Much More To Come) It Doesn’t Always Have To... Continue reading →

115: Tuesday Tunes

(Source) L is for… Lincoln Brewster No-one noticed that my alphabet was in the wrong order did they? Lincoln Brewster is an American worship leader that my Uncle introduced me to. I hadn’t heard of him but I downloaded the... Continue reading →

108: Tuesday Tunes

I don’t tend to buy albums anymore because I don’t always like all the songs – and there’s always that one that never gets played on the CD (or MP3 as most of my music is going that way) But... Continue reading →

052: Tuesday Tunes

(Source) E is for… Emeli Sande Clearly Radio 1 is affecting my choices but some of these songs are really good and I like them. When the money’s spent and all my friends have vanished And I can’t seem to... Continue reading →

047: I Love Lists Thursday

Well this weeks list is the current play list on my iTunes library – I finally updated it to have a playlist for February. Some have links to YouTube others don’t have links at the moment.  Chantilly – Just The Way... Continue reading →

024: Tuesday Tunes

(Source) Special Post Julia Nunes So today should technically be the letter D but I figure – my posts, my rules. Today is the 24th January and one of the people I follow on YouTube is doing something amazing and... Continue reading →

010: Tuesday Tunes

(Source) B is for…. Bryan Adams We used this as part of the Christmas production at church so it’s been creeping up my Most Played list in iTunes.     The video won’t embed 🙁 You can find it here Continue reading →

003: Tuesday Tunes

(Source) A is for…. Anna Nalick – Breathe (2am) There isn’t a proper video on YouTube for this song. If you don’t mind a bit of blood and guts (like medical drama) then this version is kind of cool –... Continue reading →

Tuesday Tunes – Birdy

Birdy – The A Team (Ed Sheeran Cover) She sang this on the Live Lounge a few weeks back on Radio 1 – it was amazing – it nearly made me cry. She’s like 16 or something like that and... Continue reading →

Easter Sunday Service

As well as playing in the church band I play in another band called New Life. Today our band took the service at Howard Memorial Church in Cardington. Somehow I ended up doing one of the talks and the following... Continue reading →

The One With Delirious

Mike Rimmer @ Cross Rhythms compiled lots of clips together about people all over the country getting History Maker by Delirious to Number 1 later today (18 hours and we’ll know!!!!) I remember seeing Delirious in the chart on TOTP... Continue reading →

The songs of the week…..

So when I got my new iPod I bought a new one of those gadgets that you plug into your iPod and it sends out a radio signal so that your car stereo can pick it up – My brothers... Continue reading →