My images have been duplicating, I am testing to make sure I am not seeing double! In my photo-albums my images duplicate. It is apparently because the image is linked by default, and so they duplicate. These sneaky settings crop up everywhere.

I may seem a little purple, but that is fine, sometimes I am. Not as in a purple people eater, nor the poppet sized musician, but generally I'm clouded in shades of purple. Mind you tomorrow it could be red, or green depending on where my photo=imaging software takes me :)

The back of me is something I never actually see. Trying to take pics of yourself with a mobile camera or a web cam isn't always easy. And you never get the image you are originally after. I was surprised to see that I had actually taken the back of me, while snapping the front. The moral is never take a picture while standing in front of a mirror. Unless you have just paid a visit to the hairdressers. And the illusion of you being 10 sizes smaller actually is working!

 To all those who really thought I was going to put my backside on here, ha ha as if!

This song has haunted me throughout my life. I heard it, I listened to it, and thought oh this is sweet. But how can love be as soft as an easy chair? How can you even know what love is at 16 and 17?

I remember memorising the words, though it wasn't cool to like songs like that- at that age. Some things never change it probably still isn't cool, the only difference is that age makes you impervious to what others consider to be PC. I like it so I don't give a damn is the attitude I have in my 40's.
Many a drunken night me and Barbara wailed our way through this song, Then came the time I thought I loved, I did love. But the words didn't fit, or I didn't fit the words and so the meaning had drama without the technicalities of it. Now the words fit the drama that is my life, or my life has lived the words...

Now as I listen caught up in the feel and atmosphere of the words and melody, I realise I barely knew what love was then.
However it didn't stop me from borrowing the record from my cousin; and so began a game of me borrowing it, she taking it back, me borrowing it again, until I must have worn the grooves flat.
One day she said no more, your ruining it.
Nooooooooooooooo, why didn't I tape it? not having a tape recorder would have been my reason. No ipods then with places to easily download favourite tracks. I didn't speak to my cousin for at least 2 weeks, for her cruelly depriving me of this song. My but she was good at finding it, even when I hid it in record-sleeves such as Al Martino- my mothers favourite at the time.

Life carries on, my heart mended and was broke again. Until I learnt what it truly was to give your heart and soul to another. Now years later I think back to then and smile, flash backs of my teenage years- eerily familiar now.
Music has the power to stir me in a way not much else does. Some would say I am just crackers and neurotic, oh well- ok I am a little of both. But don't we just call it eccentricity here in England, and isn't it part of our national heritage.
And so I have passed an hour or two lost in music, and I honestly can't think of a nicer way to spend losing time. Slightly melancholy now, perhaps it's time for something to make my blood rush, rather than the still waters that Evergreen has created.

Evergreen

Love soft as an easy chair
Love fresh as the morning air
One love that is shared by two
I have found with you

Like a rose under the april snow
I was always certain love would grow
Love ageless and evergreen
Seldom seen by two

You and i will make each night a first
Every day a beginning
Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
They warm and excite us, cause we have the brightest love

Two lives that shine as one
Morning glory and midnight sun
Time we've learned to sail above
Time won't change the meaning of one love
Ageless and ever evergreen

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