BP round up

This week things may be a little slower  and less deep than usual in that I'm preparing to be away  at LG camp which should be fun checking everything all off on lists so I have what I need without taking the kitchen sink with me while melting as this is being typed in the sun, keeping well hydrated.

It also means a bit more time spent on one site where much of the discussion and planning for this in the bigger sense takes place which does take me a bit away from other things of necessity.

It is also worth my mentioning that it does effect stuff in the period I'm away not just Tumblr and the Music Site but blogging so I'll see if something can't be set up to run although I won't be around to post links and all that..

Most people know what my favourite all time tv show is - and it's run for over sixty years - and until 2011 there were year books (later annuals) of which this one shows then current presenters Matt Baker, Konnie Haq, Liz Barker and I think Simon Thomas.

Lindsey with Henry the dog.

On last Thursday one of the current presenters Lindsey Russell left after a eight year run starting in September 2013 with Barney Harwood after a audition followed by show audience vote.

May 2018 saw her undertake a challenge flying with the Red Arrows, taking control for herself and this is the one thing she says was her favourite, learning a lot about herself from it plus Piloting a hot-air balloon across the Arctic, Climbing mountains with the Swiss Army and Interviewing David Attenborough.

There wasn't just the usual wall of post from the shows young audience that included letters drawings, paintings and crafts connected to her but another great big wall too.

She had some challenges to do such as fastest getting changed into Cricket Whites in which she set a new record of just over 38 seconds adjudicated by Guinness the records people and identifying by touch three objects in boxes.

She was presented with a Blue Peter Gold Badge by Richie Driss who was the presenter who joined just after her and took under her wing for a period.

Tributes were paid by Radzi, Katy Hill and Konnie Huq amongst others including some children views from the Blue Peter Fan Club which is online and after a competition she went up as the credits rolled in a hot air balloon over the studio at Salford's Media City to a crowd of school children cheering and waving.

It was sad, these things just are but she was brilliant.

On posts elsewhere

There will be no doubt other stuff going on when this post is set to be published however that may turn out and that's why I tend to do things a bit in advance.

I'm not really much good at that on social media having never really got the hang of scheduling posts so whenever I'm doing something that may involve being away from a keyboard given my cellphone is not "smart", then you can expect no posts.

And that's before you take in the disinclination to with off colour messages and people with pretty disgusting everyday morals that try to interact with you with the time it takes to block people and sadly file reports too in extreme cases.

I'm working on a new style of posting that I might enjoy more as I find the constant discourse and tension tends to take me away from the very reason I made an account in the first place and that seems to be working out much better.

I should be able to log in and just feel like making posts rather than agonizing over how that might seem to one group or other so long as they're decent.

That's the thing going forward.

Bruch and classical music

It is something of a dull day as I write this with much rain so I'm listening to some music startingwith my 1994 disc of music from The Last Night of the Proms, that evergreen series of concerts of classical music for all, final night.

Like much else that too was impacted by Covid but touch wood we should be able to have a near normal season this year unlike last which full orchestras and soloists.

Recording new performances too has been impacted so new releases have drop off a little but recently I did get a brand new disc from Alpha Classics.

Max Bruch is a composer whose works outside of his famous Violin Concerto I had not explored.

This is packaged in a Digipak, a mixture of thick card with a glued in plastic well to hold the disc.

This disc covers string works which is an genre I do enjoy listening to and here we have two Quintets and an Octet on a generously filled disc performed by the chamber players of the German broadcaster WDR's symphony orchestra.

That picqued my interest and although this is a regular cd, it is very well recorded sounding like players playing live responding in real time to each others playing.

I really enjoyed it as sometimes when you've played say a lot of Mozart and Beethoven, hearing something very different is appreciated.

The eternal things

 To-day it is that still I'm sadly not to good here.

While I'm like this, I'm just thinking about what I feel is a part of all of this which isn't all how you might dress or what plushies and that you have but is really about something that soon goes missing.

It's really what I call authentic actions, acting on what it is that we are about such as the feelings and emotions we have for each other which might be to ask how someone is, being prepared to just listen and comfort them.

It is to share the fun you could have by doing things with others, co-operating such as playing games, to help less well off children through gifting things that you know they'd just love to have the opportunity to have.

It is to be of service to others in whatever way you can rather than waiting for others to do it, being prepared to make an offer first.

It's also holding on to a sense of innocence and being helpful not holding cynical and suspicious thoughts about others and their motives that you share space with. 

Weekend thoughts

Yesterday was Grump Day aka Father's Day which in the mixed up messy world of my family is awkward as most of these things just are . 

I just love vintage cards like that rather then the materially centred or smutty humoured sort you see in many card racks.

It was despite the many reports of expected thunderstorms and heavy rainful pleasant enough to walk out although the many mowed lawns around here do nothing for my hayfever unfortunately.

I like undisturbed meadowlands rather like this with dandelions and daisies growing in them being left alone rather than mowed into a boring super smooth grass patch that does little to sustain bio-diversity.

Why can't we leave these things alone until they truly need it?

Being Smol is really me

It's been a warm weekend after a week being under the weather with being pawley for most of the time which where I usually end up at my most mentally lucid but least capable of remembering what those thoughts were.

Told you, the connexions are all mixed up!

When I'm like this I'm at my littlest for no other a reason I'm not up to even trying to do anything remotely adult and the more I feel that letting go of all that other stuff really makes more sense.

I was officially a bit old to really get on the Annie revival in 1982 as much as I loved the movie back then and I'd love the Annie inspired young girls fashion for being free of anything that tries to be remotely adult or sophisticated teen in the way that back then I just wasn't feeling out of place amongst my peers. 

It's taken time to achieve it but tearing down that wall of sophisticated teen and pretending to be an adult so I am treated more as a young child, handing back those executive  functions, learning to accept direct oversight  respecting their decisions has worked better

Outside of anything I may need to learn my only need is to play for the fun of using my imagination as that little girl free from any sense of it having to be linked to anything serious, just acting my true age as a child in an adult frame.

I'm happy being a child.

Summer 2021

 Rather a warm start to the week even if it is cooler than the middle of last weeks.

While the groan ups are still arguing about how summer is going to be and there are things I certainly want to be doing by a months time, I'd sooner think about what it is I loved from past summers.

Things that past summers meant with me  were things like the various 'wakes weeks' where the fun fair would roll into town using taking a portion of the common where candyfloss sellers, games and funfairs would be running and you'd enjoy yourself playing, maybe riding the horse.

Here we'd have and are thank goodness getting some visitors to our canal, getting off for a period exploring the countryside and using the local shops.

In better times we'd of had a picnic but I suspect we may be a bit too late for that where we'd play openly together having fun, flying kites and climbing trees cos we still feel that urge, that compulsion to as our child-like selves.

Those are things that interest me and paws crossed we may get to be able to do them soon.