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Here!

I am an Essex girl by birth, but not the naice part.

Terribly upset by Rik's death. I cried when it came on the LBC this afternoon. One of my favourite's of his was Dancing Queen. It was with him and Helena Bonham Carter. What a waste.

Singers! I need you.
Too long ago I was part of a woman's community singing group and we did lots of songs from all over the world.
It was a bit haphazard and involved wine quite a bit, although it's still going after 19 years( wow can't believe it) there are no original members left and they have moved on to more Trad Irish stuff now.
Anyhoo I am going through the songs , some of which I'm going to teach dd to bring with her to teach in Ghana . But my brain is mangled and I can't remember some of the tunes .( no charts or scores at all , mostly learnt by ear.)
Anyone come across any of these:

I'm gonna wait on The Lord
No More Silence
Oj Savice ( a Croat song)
Let your Little light Shine

Sorry a bit random I know , but I'm grateful of any help.

Ooh I know Let Your Little Light Shine, but as a Gospel version - not sure it's quite what you need for Trad Irish

Just a thought, have you tried You Tube?

Gosh, Crem, that needs a thread of its own - I'm sure the tunes would come flooding out of the woodwork. I can't help, I'm afraid.

Rose - yes, DD1 is in Y8. Quite a well timed trip, I guess, although they do it every year.

I must say, that cake recipe sounds rather good. Cakes like that are very good as a pudding, with fresh fruit and lashings of creme fraiche.

Herbs - yes, yes, move to the Country!

Yay thanks BTM. Funnily it just came to me.
Have found most of them by utube thankfully. It's like forensic musicology. This thing I thought was Turkish for years , I've just found out is Aborigine. Lol.

I remember "Let your little light shine", too. The Soweto Gospel Choir came to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle a few years ago and we went. They were marvellous. (Incidentally did you know that Soweto isn't some exotically named place, its just SOuth WEst TOwnship? I was quite shocked as I always had a romantic idea of it. Yes I do know it's a shanty town).

I highly recommend the cake, by the way.

Just watched Dancing Queen again - thanks Rosebag..

Glad you liked the cake, NU.

Poor old Rik. I used to love the Young Ones. I remember watching it when I was babysitting for two boys, aged around 7 and 5, and they were messing around with tampons (the Young Ones, not the kids!). The 5 year old turned to me and asked me what they were. The 7 year old looked at him and said "You know what they are - Mummy sticks them up her vagina." At least I didn't have to explain!

The naice bits of Essex seem to be in the north and east. Lots of 'dear' little tudor villages and market towns. It's not as naice as Surrey or Hampshire or the Cotswolds, but naicer than Romford.

Ah, Herbs, I used to live in a village near to Witham. DS was born in Chelmsford - though at one point I thought it might be on the A12!

A grey day here, just about to get up ready for the arrival of the GC. Have a good day all.

Sorry to boast, NU, but its gorrrrgeous here again today Might have to do a bit of outside education at some point

Herbs you should get an orange tan and move to the Towie part of Essex - just for fun obv

I am sitting outside dds singing exam. She is in full evening gown at 9 in the morning. Bit weird.

Having a coffee in walthamstows glamorous shopping mall before getting the tube for a session of literacy teacher shadowing. Strangely nervous, tho a lit if this is the prospect of the tube, about which I seem to have developed a mild phobia. Not very handy for a Londoner.

DS has a good day for his trip to hampstead Heath. Where they'll be looking at nature. He is sporting a natty star-printed trilby.

Cremo very weird
Herbs is that the one the cat sat on?

Rudy - hope all okay....

Well the weather improved, but nothing else did.

DSis sent me a text just after eight o'clock to say not to worry, but she was in hospital, where she had been since lunchtime yesterday. It turns out that yesterday morning when she had cycled to the shops she had come off her bike. I don't know the full story yet, but evidently she has a nasty arm wound which the hospital, after spending lots of time sorting out, decided warranted ABs by IV drip, which necessitated the overnight stay. She is hoping to be discharged later on this morning. (This followed on from yesterday when I heard that a friend's daughter was in intensive care following a fall from a horse - she and friends had decided to ride some stray horses which they came across - result she came off on concrete and landed on her unhelmeted head - needless to say her poor parents are distraught - I haven't had an update on how she is doing today).

It is glorious here now: DH has taken DGS to the bakers to get some stuff for lunch, DGD is upstairs asleep in her cot, so all quiet at the moment. The tent is now up in the garden and the top off the sandpit - shame DGD seems frightened still of the grass and won't venture more than a couple of steps away from me or DH.

Rudy, sorry to hear about the deaths - it's funny how these things seem to come in cycles. I am now wondering who else I know will end up in hospital (superstitious old fool emoticon).

Oh NU poor sister and poor child. !!
That's desperate.

NU, , I do hope you get some good news calls today.

Hope all exam-doers going well. dd has finished two A level subjects, and now has to motivate herself over two weeks for the last one, so it feels worryingly quite gentle. I would really like the house to myself for several days.

Not happy to hear the not such good news from NU and Rudy. Sad and worrying.
Herbs I like the tube less and less as I get older. Calm breathing exercises help me if it's very crowded. Hope the ride was ok in the end? I used to work in Walthamstow. For 8 years in fact..that brought back memories.
blackduck I love the scene at the Stag where he's so unbelievably wasted and she's dancing on the table...
Well lots of photos are appearing on the school trip twitter feed OF OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN. Gah
Lovely meet up with mother this morning. My first crepey eye ball.

Cremo - love the dressing up for singing exam - hope it went OK. Sorry about your Dsis NU - I won't ride a bike around here - too scary. Horses are dangerous things as well. DD's friend finished with a leg slightly shorter as a result of a riding accident.

Here following the enormous storm on Sunday night - where after watching the news - we luckily escaped the worst - it is tossing it down. I read somewhere that the guttering around the houses is no longer appropriate for the heavy rain we have now days.

DD1 has gone into school for revision sessions in maths and physics.

None of my children have worn anything waterproof today!

Oh NU :(

Rosebag - I love her laugh! and when she throws a bucket of fish at him...... I do recall watching it agggggeeees ago, but thanks for reminding me of it!

Here I am struggling as did the 4.00 am wakeup (again)! I am wfh/on leave tomorrow so don't be surprised if ds is late for school :)

Gosh bd, you poor sleepless thing!
I struggled to get up at 7 this morning so dreading going back to work tomorrow. Strong painkillers+gammy leg + commute on crutch does not a happy Cremola make.

Lalsy we have a 10 day break now until French. And that is it finished .
Thank fuck. I couldn't take another day of it. Dd sang her wee heart out this am. She thinks it went ok. She had a short programme of 6 pieces which were sung in 4( four, IV) languages. Predictably she's lying down now , with netflix.