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Am I Obsessed?
Introduction Last Thursday my step count was around fifteen hundred, the lowest it has been apart from when I was in bed in hospital and recuperating after the operation in Alnwick. That is about half a mile and was done in the house because the weather was so bad.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Humans
Songs A Cappella
Introduction A cappella is Italian for ''in the style of the chapel''. Music is a performance by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. The term a cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato musical styles. In the 19th century, a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony, coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists, led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
A Broadside At Your Favourite Songs and Artists From Half Man Half Biscuit
Introduction Most of you will never have heard of Half Man Half Biscuit and their leader Nigel Blackwell, whose lyrics have been documenting the minutiae of everyday life in the UK. He often either refers to a band or celebrity in the title or a famous song that you might know.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Cloudfall
It’s been like this for over a year, I’m in the house, windows all boarded up and the door as fast as I can make it. Luckily they just tried to kick it down but it’s too strong for that. A couple of times I think Molotov cocktails have been thrown but the planks on the windows are more than good enough for that.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Fiction
Automatic
Introduction I’ve just missed an important appointment, due to losing the letter which I got six weeks ago but then ended up at the bottom of a pile of other medical correspondence and as I am waiting to make another appointment, listening to some atrocious ten second muzak soundbites, I thought I would start this article about how we have become used to things being done for us.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in FYI
The Dog, The Dog He's At It Again
This is for the Halo Collar and Vocal "Life Unleashed" Challenge. I haven’t had a dog as a pet for over twenty years, though as a kid I had three Alsatian dogs , well that last was an alsatian / labrador cross called Simba , a rescue dog. The other two were Sheena , and Nina (a pure breed but , shall we say, a little highly strung).
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Petlife
Some Alternate Poets. Top Story - November 2022.
Introduction When you were at school who liked poetry really? I think I hated Shakespeare but it may just have been the way I was taught and how the works were actually presented to me. I do like a lot of Shakespeare though find some a bit over the top.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Poets
