What the
hell is the matter with blogger tonight?! It's taken me three Firefox reboots and one complete cookie-cache clearout to get here!
[grumble] ANYway... Quyn's a little happier: thank you, everyone, for all the good wishes. The first dose of painkiller has worn off now, but he's moving a little more easily (though the reproachful looks I get as I coax him up and down the garden would melt a softer heart than mine and beautifully illustrate "hangdog expression"). I've had two cycles sleep, and am much relieved, so I feel better too. And it's been a
gorgeous sunny day, really warm, so much so I've put through four washing machine loads, cleared the washbasket and done the towels - we all have huge bathsheets so it's a fairly big job - and it's all dried outdoors in no time, so as Thursdays go it's not been too bad, all told.
Best of all has been the music. Lutra posted her current playlist on her blog, and I read it (as you do) - and zeroed in on
Some Velvet Morning. Way back in prehistoric times when I was a child, I heard a song - just once - on the radio, and it's haunted me ever since. The opening line is "Some velvet morning when I'm straight," (yup, even hearing it just once in my life, decades ago, I remember all the words, that's how strong an effect it had on me. The name of one of the
FirstLight characters is taken from it, though spelt differently) and I wondered if it was the same song. Lutra emailed over hers (Primal Scream featuring Kate Moss, obviously
not the version I remember!) and yes, it was the song - but I didn't like this version. So -
[GLOMPS Lutra] - she then hunted Morpheus for me... and found the original! And emailed it!!
The original version was by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, from 1968. Adrian, and hence Carol, might know it - don't think I've come across a song Adrian
doesn't know! - but no-one else I've ever mentioned it to has ever had a clue what I'm on about. Finding that Lutra did, and liked it, is just extraordinary...
[happy sigh] It
still gives me goose-pimples after all this time...
Flowers are the things we know
Secrets are the things we grow
Learn from us very much
Look at us but do not touch
Phaedra is my name
Then Lutra found the mp3 of
Bring Me To Life (Evanescance), and emailed that.
Then
Hero (Nickelback and Saliva).
And just to make the day complete, Carol emailed
Beautiful Day (the U2 song that inspired the Matrix Twins fanfic) over too.
Musekick - can't live without musekick. Certainly can't write without it. Big thank-you
[GLOMPS] all round!
The orchid display completed (for now!)
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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