Walking in Memphis – One of the truly great songs

One morning last week I was doing the usual, having breakfast watching music videos before walking to work and on came one of my all time favourite songs Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohen.

Its easy to say that I love everything about this song because I do. It’s a song that I listen to every word of, no matter how often I play it, which is a lot! It’s the words, the piano that intros, wafts throughout and ends it as well as the gospel feel. I could go on. The whole song is sensational.

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Tour Down Under – Southern Fleurieu

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Today’s stage of Australia’s major bike race was in my favourite part of South Australia. It was a glorious day as I set out for a ride to take in the atmosphere. It was also the stage where the public get to ride the stage, so rather than being a lone ride there were thousands of fellow cyclists on the road.

The stage started in the city and then worked its way down to the Southern Fleurieu with the highlight of the stage being the ride across the Myponga Dam Wall

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Fifteen Minutes and One Post!

One of the Daily Prompts last year was to spend fifteen minutes on a topic and then publish.

So hear goes…

It’s Monday morning, a work day, and I have my long black over ice and piece of toast and Vegemite for breakfast – hardly the breakfast of champions, but something I enjoy. Mornings are my time. Usually no one else is up and I can put the music channel on and browse the news websites or as I have been doing in recent weeks, browse my WordPress Reader which is so much more relaxing!

I have found so many interesting posts and blogs, my Reader is now being updated with some of the most fabulous content. Initially I was looking for posts on topics I was interested in, but in the last week or so I have been more adventurous and it’s been fun. I visited a cooking site, I never look at cookbooks! have been excited by the energy that so many fellow bloggers have, it’s so refreshing at a time when there is so much negativity around.

Then after my toast and coffee it’s a walk to work reflecting on what I’ve read. So much more enjoyable than being dragged down by the news!

Well that’s fifteen minutes my times up and so It’s time to publish.

Not my best post I am sure, but it does show that I can do it without my usual twenty five plus edits!

I had “High Hopes” – Bruce Springsteen’s latest

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I found Bruce Springsteen’s “High Hopes” on Spotify today providing me an early opportunity to listen to it as it was not available at my local CD store.

I’d read a few reviews in the lead up to the release of this album and they hadn’t necessarily been fulsome in their praise. As a result I was a little uneasy as I hit the play button on my iPhone.

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Too Hot even for a Beer!

What a contrast between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The photo of the dog in the snow (from craftingandcupcakery.com) provides such a contrast to the weather in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Adelaide is having one of its hottest ever spells. Temperatures in the 40s everyday so far this week and more to come. Our local newspaper is prone to hyperbole but today’s headline was probably pretty reasonable. Yesterday was an absolute shocker – 45C plus, lightening in the hills, numerous bushfires (thankfully no one was hurt and no significant property damage) but – Oh My! Today was only 43C!

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Having always lived in Adelaide, hot summers are something I am used too. As kids we didn’t have air conditioning, just a fan and on really hot nights we slept outside on our back lawn. Our days were indispersed with visits to the beach.

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