Four on the Floor – Christmas Special Volume 1.

These will be slightly shorter versions of what you normally see in these blogs, and not what peeps expect from me! And its actually 5 this time around.

 

A Merry Axemas – A Guitar Christmas Volume 1 – 7/10.

Originally released in 1997, this a little beauty has 12 awesome players having some fun with a yuletide flavour, the only track I don’t care for is the Joe perry track, nothing wrong with the playing it simply doesn’t float my boat, there was a volume two but this is my preferred playing, go on have some fun over Christmas!

 

Twisted Sister – A Twisted Christmas – 3/10.

I’m a huge fan of the band but not of this album I have a friend who loves plays it on the morning of Christmas day, I think he does it to annoy his family, I played it, I didn’t hate it but its not for me or is it for everybody’s taste, at least they did it with a sense of humour but no thanks……NEXT!

Jethro Tull - The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – 8/10.

At last someone not taking the piss, some original (new) songs mixed with classics and not done tongue in cheek, this definitely wont be everybody’s cup of tea, but if you feel the need for some festive cheer this is a good place to start, I ignored it first time round 19 years ago but it does creep back in usually at this point in December, fill yourselves full of Christmas cheer.

 

Blackmores Night - Winter Carols – 9/10.

I love this album, I am a huge fan of the group, I like what Mr B does in almost all bands he has played in, but this seems like fun, the album has been issued a number of times since 2006, the best version is the 2021 version as it’s a double disc, again if you don’t like the band this wont do anything to fix that its more of the same, quality music well produced, a nice fire a large glass of something slightly alcoholic and a book to read with this in the background you maay be pleasantly surprised, I know I was, me being a carbon copy of the grinch well I was until I heard this album!

 

Glenn Hughes - A Soulful Christmas – 0/10.

Avoid avoid avoid, I love the guy and out of all the albums he has released this is the only one I hate,  that’s as much as I wish to say about it, I actually prefer the Twisted Sister album to this, thankfully the only blip in a glorious career!

A Day in the Life, Part 21170.

 

It was all going so smoothly, that was until “Bob decided he was going to pay me a visit! Thankfully he was scared away by my bravado and a certain amount of bad attitude. I had been happy as a rule, for the last couple of weeks, not giddy as a school girl, but my mood and demeanor was “up” the blog on all fronts was motoring along, work was ……”Meh” could be worse could be better, life at home was, slightly difficult due to certain things going on in the background, but I was there to offer support to who ever wanted or needed it, medically life was as crap as ever, again I was simply going with the flow, there isn’t a lot I can do until I finally get my first appointment to the new clinic for my issue (ahem lets not go there) I was discharged from the broken hoop clinic in August 2022 and pushed to another clinic and I finally got my first appointment at the weekend for …….wait for it ……March 2023, WTF! Anyway there’s nothing I can do about it (admittedly I was giving them until January and then I was going to unleash the wife on their asses) to be honest by the time I get to see the new clinic and Dr’s it will be exactly eight years since the condition started, so no I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, I don’t think they will find an answer for it and I believe it’s something I will simply have to live with or its so serious and rare its going to kill me! Although to be brutally honest I think it would have finished me off by now, my arse is like a rag mans trumpet most days but at least the uncontrollable burping has been brought to heel with yet more medication, I seem to rattle when I walk/hobble!

I didn’t get upset, I didn’t wail, I simply shrugged my shoulders and went with it, I was still in an all-right frame of mind, the last blog was doing slow numbers but still climbing that rocky hill called statistics, the grandson had returned home, we were finally getting the passage and bathroom painted by a professional (my weak body simply couldn’t cope, why struggle for hours when I can get a professional to complete it in under 12 hours over two days). We set about sorting the rooms out (how much crap do we have) and getting it stored in the two bedrooms and the dining room (again how much crap) I should really just hire a skip, the wife would kill me, actually with the way that my body is behaving that might not be a bad thing! As it happens it was painted a lot quicker than we put the house back to shape (6 days and counting ….baby steps) the weekend came and went but on the Sunday night there was a gloom hanging over me and I had no idea why, sleep did not arrive as quickly as it normally does, when it did arrive I was restless and was woken a number of times and I did doze off back to the land of nod, so unlike me, while still being restless, once awake I rarely go back to sleep, this time I did and after around 3 and a half hours sleep (I’m sad I keep a record for which ever clinic I end up in, as apparently it all matters) I got up feeling decidedly grumpy, not unusual after a crap night’s sleep.

Bob stalked me through the house, not making direct contact but looking for a weakness some way that he could drag me back down in to the depths of my own stupidity, I put my coat on and headed off to be a bus wanker, I decided once on the bus that I was going to play some music and I started with the Queen discography starting with the debut and going through it chronologically (I know I’m sad) 3 songs in and “Bob” was left behind as if he had never been there, never underestimate the power of music, I worked all day and got through to The Miracle before calling it a day, as I got off the bus home I bumped into an old work mate (who retired a few years ago) and he said he hadn’t seen me so happy for ages, music really does indeed sooth the soul, the thing that worries me just a tad is how silently “Bob” crept up on me with great speed, the good thing though is how fast he was banished, by the time Great King Rat kicked in I was happy, I think the reason that I have been happier of late is simply the amount of music I am playing, I did enjoy the day, unfortunately I can’t play music all day every day, as much as I would like to.

And so to a new week work is still the same, today I decided to go through Ozzy’s discography although I skipped over The Ultimate Sin, there are some nice tracks on it I’m simply not a fan, one day I will work out why( because its cack) the day has passed uneventfully I was cooking before 8 (slow cooker delight for tea) at my desk in my little office space for just after 08.30 and kind of pottered on, an early night tonight as I have a very tight schedule tomorrow so the only time for music will probably be on the journey to and from work, as it stands it really is all good in the hood, and you all thought that this was going to be doom and gloom, it wasn’t it was just how I felt at the time.

There will be a couple of blogs quite quickplay irrespective of numbers (I do have a tendency to still follow how this does) the numbers will probably run into each other but it is what it is, they will be quick fire type of blogs, those who have followed me will recognise the formats, I don’t intend to stray far of my beaten path! So, while this one has arrived later than expected there will be about three over the next fortnight or so, the weekend beckons and I have as always, many cunning plans to resolve before the next blog arrives, the games afoot, I’m in a good frame of mind and am actually looking forward to “The Holiday” maybe I might simply blog about that, some research before I pull the trigger on that particular scab! So, until the next one stay safe, stay alive, do whatever you need to do to enjoy this time of the year, watch the skies for more incoming and keep spreading the disease, the blogs are picking up speed at a pleasant pace, lets go have some fun, until the next one……………Toodles!

Oh yes and while I remember the name game is in play and is really simple nobody should have to google it I have used it before, it’s the number that’s the complicated bit, let’s see how clever any of you are, I doubt that you will be able to get an answer from Google this time!

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