Lime - Like

Untether-online

Enchanted-dynamo

Tame - Lame

I only began writing in later life, around ten years ago, quite by accident.

Back in '85, I was detached to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands for four months. I was a Royal Air Force propulsion engineer. In my spare time, I wrote poetry that was inspired by my surroundings. Back then, there were no personal computers as we have now, and all those poems were handwritten in a notebook.

Sometime after my return, my other half and I had a blazing row and the notebook was destroyed in a fit of rage. The poems were lost forever. I was so angry that I swore no one would do that to me again, and I wrote no more.

Fast-forward to 2013. I 'met' someone online whom I began to converse with. My emails were like micro stories and she liked them so much that she said I should publish them.

That got me thinking, and I found a now-defunct website and began to write short stories there. Those stories were erotic stories but I soon found that it wasn't the 'naughtiness' I enjoyed but the pleasure of writing the background stories. Maybe I could write a real story, I thought. The result was 'The Nurses and the Surgeon', a short story of 5000 words.

Again, it was well received and the bug had well and truly bitten me. It wasn't enough. There had to be more to that story, and so, it became an epic tale of some 390.000 words!

In those ten years, I have written three other novels, a novella, and many short stories and poems, all of which are backed up in so many places and devices that they will never be lost... and one, as you all know, is now published. 😉

Fate - Gate

Dials - Salad

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mind

damn

...and still no! Just one letter. No anagrams.

Dame - Game... this one, not the other. 🙄😊

Having dug out the above-mentioned albums, I have found a slight anomaly in my memory banks.

Sacred Heart wasn't released until 1985, which was some nine years after the previously narrated tale!

However, it seems that it must have been Peter Frampton's - Frampton that was the third Album.

So now I am wondering, where did I get Sacred Heart from? 🤔

Anyway, I am listening to it now and finding it awesome. I should have given it more credit way back then.

There are only two songs on the Frampton album that I ever liked. Here is one, Show Me The Way.

Sorry I missed your birthday, Verbs. I haven't been able to be here for a few days. Too many commitments in RL. I'm sure you had a great day, though.

Rind - Bind

Never ridden a horse in my life. I'll go with walking.

Explore a city or hike a trail? (In both cases, places you have never seen before)

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Getting into a genre of music that you have largely ignored leads to interesting things, like listening to albums you largely passed over back in the day. Holy Diver by Dio came out when I was still in high school and I only vaguely knew of it until I got into metal. This morning, I had it on. Not necessarily going to be a favourite, but I can see why it is regarded as an important album in heavy metal. Here's a live performance. Lead singer, and founder, of the band was the late Ronnie James Dio, who fronted several bands over his career, including Dio, Black Sabbath and Rainbow.

When I was a teenager, my cousin was dating a guy who worked for A&M Records. One day, I received a surprise package from him. It contained a random selection of three albums. I hadn't heard of any of them.

They consisted of;

The Tubes - The Tubes

Dio - Sacred Heart

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

One of them has been played so often that I'm surprised it's still intact. The other two are still like new, virtually unplayed. I wonder if you can guess which is my favourite.

Here is a track from one of them. Take a listen, you might never want to hear it again! 🤣

Ionise-enchanted

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I know Green Onions! (Don’t know the other.)

Check out my last entry on the 'What Music Are You Listening to' thread. It's a good tune.

Tint - Lint

I have read and enjoyed both. I suppose it depends on the mood.

Patricia Cornwell or Bernard Cornwell?

In connection with the This or That thread;

Booker T. and the MGs - Soul Limbo.

Lowbrow-education!

Both, but I'll go with on their own.

Green Onions or Soul Limbo? (I wonder who will get this... 🤔)

Bent - Cent

Amusement-irenical

Vest - Vent

Music

Big film soundtracks or songs of the musicals?

Dinner. I love music but hate dancing.

Music: Headphones or good quality HiFi/Speakers?

Another saxophonic blast from even further back. From 1978, even. Can you believe this was released 45 years ago?

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

Ionosphere-stratosphere

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spay

pray

No

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trek

perk

Still no...

Pert - Pest

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Oops. Another missed edit. 😉😆

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So everyone knows, that's been mentioned as well. I wasn't going to bring attention to it.

Oops, sorry. 😐😉🤣

A real blast from the past.

Live in 1989, Dave Stewart with Candy Dulfer. Lily was here.