Songs on Saturday ~ Stop The Cavalry
one day, peace on Earth will come to stay
Back in the ’80s we had some pretty wild office Christmas parties. This song from Jona Lewie was always on the playlist. How you danced to this track depended on how late in the evening it had gotten ~ hold me close.
Please listen with a little nostalgia.
Remembering better Christmases past.
One day, Christmas parties will return for us.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
worth waiting for
Didn’t get to go
papers please
So I got to the airport, got as far as the gate, and I am not going to Cancun. Slightly upsetting. I live in a police state. The nazis treated people better than this.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
No chance
Coronavirus Testing
order, counter-order, disorder
somewhere over the rainbow the coronavirus actually exists
I just walked around the marina where I live. There is a huge area where the army have set up a mass COVID-19 testing station. At 16:30 this evening there was nobody waiting to be tested. WTF is going on? This is not the first time this mass testing station has had zero ‘patients’ all day. What a total waste of valuable resources.
Everything you read in the media about coronavirus testing, test and trace, and probably vaccines is a complete lie. I have the evidence of my own eyes. All day today a squad from the Army Medical Corps wasting their time to bolster Boris Johnson’s ego,
Pathetic.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the covid police will be visiting a town near you soon
Armistice Day
they were young, they were pals, 744,000 of them died
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they shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
at the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember them.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
lest we forget
Music ~ All Your Friends
friends will fight shoulder to shoulder
This Coldplay track and accompanying video is poignant and tragic. Perhaps an apt choice on the morning of the 102nd anniversary of the day the guns fell silent In Flanders Fields.
The Pals Battalions suffered horrifically during the Somme Offensive in 1916.
If you can find it in your heart, then please listen with two minutes of silence.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
going over the top
Tunes on Tuesday ~ The B52’s
before I talk, I should read a book
You know what? I never really understood that quotation ~ unless it’s about casual sex. If it comes right down to it, I never really understood why the trash culture B52’s were so popular in the 70s and 80s, especially here in England. Unless you happen to like Big Ugly Fat Fuckers. Anyhow, I liked Love Shack back then, and I still do. Perhaps I just like shacks.
Please listen remembering back-roads America.
I also like long road trips.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I wonder if Biden will have much use for the BUFFs
Remembrance Sunday
at the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month of 1918
the guns fell silent
The Third Battle of Ypres, also called the Battle of Passchendaele, was another of the horrific meat-grinders fought in Flanders Fields during the Great War.
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
between the crosses row on row
In England today is Remembrance Sunday, many of us will wear a poppy, and remember the 887,888 dead from the United Kingdom and her then Colonies.
This song is a poignant reminder of those days.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Cher
she may be a lady but she’s reached an age when any fucking thing goes
Sometimes a guy just has to play something really stupid and a little bit raunchy, (actually quite a lot raunchy). This a comeback track from 1960’s to ageless pop / rock icon Cher. Interesting stage costume she’s almost wearing to go with her 80’s big hair.
Anyhow it’s nice to see one of the last of the battleships, in this case the USS Missouri. Another reason for choosing this video is that I have a soft spot for Missouri.
Please listen without becoming over-excited.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and finally, some solemnity
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Royal Air Force
today is Battle of Britain Day
On September 15th 1940 the Nazi Luftwaffe met the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Royal Air Force over the skies of southern England. By the end of the day the Luftwaffe had lost twice as many aircraft as had the RAF. The Luftwaffe was broken and Hitler called off Operation Sealion, the proposed invasion of England. Democracy had been saved for the world.
Churchill called the 2,927 pilots who had taken part ‘The Few’, and 510 perished during the battle. Only one of The Few is still alive today; 101 years old John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
during the battle the Hawker Hurricane shot down more German aircraft than did the Supermarine Spitfire.
Battle of Britain Day
2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain
On September 15th 1940 the German Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attack on London
Defending England were the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the RAF
Fighter Command was outnumbered
Ranged against the Spitfire was the bf 109
this action was the climax of the Battle of Britain, commemorated every September 15th as Battle of Britain Day
the memorial flight includes Hurricanes, Spitfires, and a single Avro Lancaster
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalknet
all through the battle and the following blitz St. Paul’s Cathedral remained safe
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