🎵Well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt 🎵

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We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!

Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good sense.

#tariffs

So who is Donald Trump going to get to design his fully computerised air traffic control system?

RIP Marianne Faithfull

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One of Joan Baez's most poignant songs, a cry to Bob Dylan after he, in many people's eyes, abandoned the causes dear to Joan's heart. Dylan was , in later years, harshly dismissive of the song and the sentiments.

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Happy New Year.

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Song of the day:Patti Smith and Gloria.

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Musing on the way there's always one woman so taken with the music that she climbs on her partner's shoulders, takes off her t-shirt and shakes her boobs, I think back to last year and the shouts of "Stop that, you're at midnight mass" and "Gran, for pity's sake!"

Happy Xmas

Christmas is a time for nostalgia, X-boxes and chocolate. Not Playstations, they should be burned at the stake. But lets not go there. Anyway, here's a blast from the past, from the days Mrs May ruled the nation.

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Judy Collins singing the Beatles' In My Life.

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A song for a very wet Sunday morning: Dory Previn - Mythical Kings and Iguanas.

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What's stimulating the Mail's Proper British Bile at the moment?

Woke sandwich fillings.

Dear Lord, take me now.

I've almost given up reporting even the vilest threats on Twitter (which are usually racist or misogynist) as nothing is done by Musk mods. Still, at least one is active as I've received a 12 hour lockout.

In tribute to Elon Musk, who has managed to turn Twitter from a $42billion company into a $9billion cesspit and is about to apply the same techniques to most of the USA and the wider world, here's a bit of Bob Marley.

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Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
Did the rifles fire o'er you as they lowered you down?
Did the bugles sing "The Last Post" in chorus?
Did the pipes play "The Flowers of the Forest"?

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From Midge Ure:

"Why does it feel like all the survivors of the Titanic have built Titanic 2 and sailed off looking for a bigger iceberg?"

Soon to become another ex-X user, I suspect, so spying out the lie of the land. Greetings to all.