What a miserable day for news

[old tree man]

So lets have some fun............would you dare admit to something really embarassing ok i'll go first
A long time ago i actually paid to see Pam Ayres live and enjoyed it
i have never actually told anyone that......

[Susie]

I am a dry stone waller.
All day I dry stone wall.
Of all appalling callings
Dry stone walling's
Worst of all.

(I hope that's Pam Ayres, if it isn't then my embarrassing confession is that I know random poems about dry stone walling).

[citizentwiglet]

I used to love Pam Ayres when I was wee (and I mean wee, about 5 or 6). Here's one poem I loved - and how apt it seems today, too!


Sling another chair leg on the fire, Mother,
Pull your orange box up to the blaze,
Hold your poor old mittens out and warm them
In these inflationary days.
Sink your teeth into that dripping sandwich,
Flick the telly on to channel nine,
And if we get the sound without the picture
Well, I’ll kick it in the kidneys, one more time.

Come with me out to the empty garage,
We haven’t been there for a week or more,
We’ll bow our heads and gaze in silent homage
At the spots of oil upon the floor.
We’ll think of when we had a motor car there,
Which used to take us out in rain or shine,
Before the price of petrol went beyond us,
And we’ll make believe we kept it, one more time.

Fling another sausage in the pan, Mother!
We’ll laugh away our worries and our cares,
But we’ll never get a doctor after hours, Mother,
So for God’s sake don’t go falling down the stairs.
Toss another lentil in the soup, Mother!
And serve it up before the News at niNe,
And if the GPO detector spots us,
Make believe we’ve got a licence, one more time.

There was a time we’d booked up for Ibiza,
We’d bought the suntan lotion and the clothes,
But we never got beyond the travel agent,
‘Cause Court Line organized the one we chose.
So knock the clouds of dust from off the brochure,
Wipe the 40-watt bulb free of grime,
Turn the dog-eared pages to Ibiza,
And we’ll make believe we got there, one more time.

Pass me the hatchet and the axe, Mother!
Wipe away that sad and anxious frown,
What with these inflationary spirals,
It’s nice to see the table falling down.
Your poor old shins will soon be good and mottled,
Once the flames get round that teak veneer,
And in the ring of warm and dancing firelight,
We’ll smile and wish each other: Happy New Year.

[snapdragon]

I made hubby and my kids (at about 6 and 9) come with me to a Cliff Richard concert

[MKG]

If you can hear past the silly overdone accent, Pam Ayres sometimes writes good stuff (witness above).

However, I did go to see Frankie Vaughan once. It was free beer, though.

It didn't help.

Mike

[oldjerry]

[quote="MKG"]If you can hear past the silly overdone accent, Pam Ayres sometimes writes good stuff (witness above).

However, I did go to see Frankie Vaughan once. It was free beer, though.


Now, if you could see past the crap singing HE was a talented angler.

My turn, I gave away a ticket to a B.B. King gig,and went to see 10 CC instead...in mitigation I'd seen him a few times before,and have since, and I was on the pull......(they were abysmal,and I went home on my own.)

[Millymollymandy]

Bay City Rollers and Top of the Pops. Well it was fun at the time!

[bonniethomas06]

My boyf would argue that my obsession with Monarch of the Glen is rather embarrassing, but I LOVE it!

Or that I have only missed about 3 episodes of Neighbours since 1985 (no, really!) and once made a pilgrimage to Ramsay Street in Oz.

I don't think that I have any very cringeworthy musical confessions - other than an obsession with Take That in particular, Mark Owen, throughout the whole of the 90's. I was a little bit devastated to learn that he is a womanising scoundrel these days, but I was also a little bit pleased that it proved my mum wrong, who was adamant that he was gay.

[Mrs H]

Pam Ayres?? I don't even know who she was/is!!!! Lol

[spider8]

I have a confession to make...........
When I was young and didn't know any better, I went to see Mungo Jerry in concert .
There, I feel better now, I'll go and lie down in a dark room for half an hour until this feeling of shame passes!

[citizentwiglet]

Bay City Rollers and Top of the Pops. Well it was fun at the time!

I had a BCR t-shirt and massive tartan flares. I was the envy of playgroup (I was three at the time..... ).....

[Milims]

Last New Years day my friend and I sat for the entire day and the majority of the evening watching Waterloo Road on Youtube - from the very beginning of the series

[boboff]

Well there was that donkey once.......................

[MuddyWitch]

Back in the 1970's I went to a 'Dooleys' concert...now THAT'S sad!

MW

[Millymollymandy]

Who?