Hello
I hope you are all keeping well. We have all been down with awful colds. Johns turned to a chest infection .
But we have not been idle. A few weeks back we helped friends pack there life up here in France. I will NOT mention the B word I think we are all sick and tiered of that.
Any way they gave us there vinyl record collection which spans back to the late 50's. Oh my word what a time machine, looking through them all and there are quite a few. The boys were fascinated and looking through them brought back so many memories. Music effects us so deeply and its been really fun looking through them.
I am sure you have seen the father and son who started off singing in the car. It was all over social media. The father has Alzheimer's and amazingly he could sing the hole song, start to finish and remember it all. Wonderful to see.
But I am not shocked. Like all of us, there are songs that bring memory's flooding back when we here them. That memory can be very vivid.
Such as 'Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjTmXT58nk
When I need a great memory of my parents it's a go to song. Sat on a coach full of tourists heading for the valley of flowers in Cornwall. Bright sunshine and the hole coach singing of people at the top of there voices. I am not sure that kind of thing would happen today lol people are in some ways even more reserved. But I have some wonderful memories of being in the car singing Bohemian Rhapsody with people I hardly know. One of them has become very close. It's music that often bonds us together.
Then there are other songs that bring the sadness flooding back. The loss of a great friend or family member. That when you hear it your eyes start leaking with out control and you need that box of tissues or in my case a loo roll.
Others that remind you of that first date, first kiss, first break up.
Then there are the constants that you have around you all the time. My older children used to panic when they herd certain music go on. Why, because they were fully aware it meant we were ALL cleaning the house and not just there bedroom.
All that stored in a very big box of vinyl record which we are going to keeping. It's a mishmash of genres . From classical to pop and some in between. An eclectic mix which is great. It showed me allot more about the couple that gave them to us.
It got me to thinking how about doing a music challenge.
I will start it off a track a day for seven days. You don't have to say who, what, ware, when, or why. Just post the track and tag someone the way we all did with photos and film, which was all a great bit of fun. It told us more about each other, well I think this would be the same. lets give it a go. I will tag some one and start it off.
Have fun with it and I hope to learn more about the inner you in the next week or so.
Love hugs and as always blessings to you all Karen x
I hope you are all keeping well. We have all been down with awful colds. Johns turned to a chest infection .
But we have not been idle. A few weeks back we helped friends pack there life up here in France. I will NOT mention the B word I think we are all sick and tiered of that.
Any way they gave us there vinyl record collection which spans back to the late 50's. Oh my word what a time machine, looking through them all and there are quite a few. The boys were fascinated and looking through them brought back so many memories. Music effects us so deeply and its been really fun looking through them.
I am sure you have seen the father and son who started off singing in the car. It was all over social media. The father has Alzheimer's and amazingly he could sing the hole song, start to finish and remember it all. Wonderful to see.
But I am not shocked. Like all of us, there are songs that bring memory's flooding back when we here them. That memory can be very vivid.
Such as 'Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the Sea'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjTmXT58nk
When I need a great memory of my parents it's a go to song. Sat on a coach full of tourists heading for the valley of flowers in Cornwall. Bright sunshine and the hole coach singing of people at the top of there voices. I am not sure that kind of thing would happen today lol people are in some ways even more reserved. But I have some wonderful memories of being in the car singing Bohemian Rhapsody with people I hardly know. One of them has become very close. It's music that often bonds us together.
Then there are other songs that bring the sadness flooding back. The loss of a great friend or family member. That when you hear it your eyes start leaking with out control and you need that box of tissues or in my case a loo roll.
Others that remind you of that first date, first kiss, first break up.
Then there are the constants that you have around you all the time. My older children used to panic when they herd certain music go on. Why, because they were fully aware it meant we were ALL cleaning the house and not just there bedroom.
All that stored in a very big box of vinyl record which we are going to keeping. It's a mishmash of genres . From classical to pop and some in between. An eclectic mix which is great. It showed me allot more about the couple that gave them to us.
It got me to thinking how about doing a music challenge.
I will start it off a track a day for seven days. You don't have to say who, what, ware, when, or why. Just post the track and tag someone the way we all did with photos and film, which was all a great bit of fun. It told us more about each other, well I think this would be the same. lets give it a go. I will tag some one and start it off.
Have fun with it and I hope to learn more about the inner you in the next week or so.
Love hugs and as always blessings to you all Karen x