Top of the Pops and the Best of the Sixties and Seventies, What or Who Were Your Favourites?

As time goes by….A blast from the past.

Top of the Pops was a TV programme no one wanted to miss. Another programme was Juke Box Jury.
So many up-and-coming pop stars.
We all listened to Radio Luxembourg and pirate radio stations like Radio Caroline.
There was music wherever we went.

Everyone had a TV, and we also watched cartoons, Lassie, Cowboys like Roy Rogers, and believed TV could do anything.
We also loved most of our politicians and film stars like Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, and Clark Gable.

Post your favourite cartoons, film stars, Pop idols of the eras, music, and chat with friends.
Most of all, enjoy!

Lian and Kieran

Brrrr Brrrr Brrrr Busyline

What are the first sounds that you hear when you wake up in the morning?

Is it magic or annoying?

Strange when snow falls, there is silence.

The first sound that I heard today was the chirping of birds or the whirring of wings, somewhere a cock crows. Then the hum of traffic emerges. The church clock strikes the hour

Perhaps a car door slams and an engine revs…I live in a town. Sometimes the blare of police sirens breaks the stillness, or lorry sounds go past my window. ( I’m sleeping in the noise due to the heat). Usually I sleep in the mill room across the garden…heaven in cooler weather, silent with walls three feet thick.

Now footsteps shuffle past, and cars unload sometimes, as there is building work next door; heavy drilling shatters the air, sometimes shouting.

In Australia, I woke up to the bush…the best sound in the world. In Italy, the Cicadas by the sea.

Perhaps a storm may wake you occasionally or the patter of rain on a window.

What sounds do you hear? Can you find music with sounds or rhythm?

Gheorgie Zamfir captures bird sounds in music; his music can make you fly through the air with pure sound.

Chat with friends, enjoy posting music and images, most of all enjoy

Lian and Kieran

Glockenspiel Clock Hamlin is musical

Swimming and Diving and Water

Where do you prefer swimming?
In the sea, in a river, or in a pool?

I used to swim in the Avon canal; it was dark and murky.

I loved the clear blue seas, swimming from a yacht in Bodrum. Boats are fun.
It was also fun rowing to the shore to buy supplies.

There are some famous lagoons and blue seas off the island I live on.

Beaches are fun places.
I prefer sandy beaches, but our island has cliffs and rocks.

If you fall into a rocky sea, swim out, as the waves could dash you on the rocks.

My Collie hated swimming; he enjoyed running along deserted beaches chasing gulls.
He got worried if I swam in deep seas. Occasionally, swam out to see if I was ok, and immediately swam back.

People love diving from high points on this island…not for me. I don’t like heights.
Neither am I an accomplished diver; I would die of fright from a high spring board.

The beaches in Western Australia were wonderful, white sands, blue seas, but look out for sharks. Fortunately, I never saw any.

I collected and dove for shells and beachcombed to make necklaces. I called my label Tsunami shells.
Everyone bought my creations. I also tiled a bathroom wall with shells, but careless builders destroyed all but a small piece of the wall.

Kennet and Avon Canal used to walk my doggo here near the city of Bath.

Midsummer's Eve, Bath, a royal city, had banquets of roasted swan. I couldn’t bring myself to eat it. But swam in the Roman Baths that evening.

Eastbourne Beachy Head UK

Roman Baths, UK, city of Bath

Ölüdeniz Beach, Turkey

Post memories, music, chat with friends…enjoy,

Lian and Kieran

So, Let’s Swing and Dance

I'm sure we all loved to dance. Own up, what were your favorite dances?

Dance was important throughout the ages.
For culture, symbolising a fashionable group, for bringing much-needed rain, for tribes to show war dancing, for young people to get together, and entertainment, even in depressing times.

The Twist started a whole dance movement that continued for decades.

Strangely enough, at Hollyfield Road school, it was only the females who learned. Compulsory country dancing. I had no idea it might ever be useful until in Western Australia, which I visited in 2006. The old-time music was the only group social activity in Albany. I knew all the dances like the Gay Gordons…Gay meaning happy rather than the different usage today. Numbers were battered out on an old piano.
That was deep in a bush town, and Milo a bit like Horlicks, the refreshment.

Dances from the fifties centred around the explosive music trends, which were fun. Ballroom dancing faded into obscurity. Rarely these days do I attend ballets, but some years ago I did the make-up for Swan Lake backstage. Backstage was always more fun than being in the audience for all types of performances.

But what has happened to Gen Z? Do they go to dances? I only see them working and travelling to and fro on the buses. They don't believe they will have pensions in later years. Selfies are the rage.

Enjoy posting music, memes, gifs, and chatting with friends.

Lian and Kieran

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