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Another grey and rainy day but a buoyant show with Cool Fm. Neil Colbourne joined me on the show and on the phone I spoke with Iris, Paul Melba and Ron Mitchell. The texts were flooding in and I thoroughly enjoyed the show. Iris had quite a few telling her it was Mary Hopkins. Last night I watched Real Madrid scrape a win against Sevilla. Ronaldo was extremelygood and the Sevilla goalkeeper was brilliant. Well done Portsmouth and come on Reading, Stoke and Tottenham
Three conservative regions of Spain defended bullfighting on Friday and pledged legislation to enshrine it as a pillar of their cultural heritage, as another area of the country considers banning the sport.
Bullfighting remains very popular in some regions of Spain, but it is no longer the powerful draw it was generations ago. Today´s crowds at bull rings are largely middle-aged, while younger generations find their heroes in music or soccer. Some people find the killing and bloodshed of the sport too repugnant.
But in Spain, it is up to each region to decide whether to keep bullfighting legal, not the national government. Full Story
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Iris's Challenge .Answer at the foot of the page.
(1) Was born 3 May 1950,and is a Welsh folk singer. She is best known as one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label. The model Twiggy saw her winning the British ITV television talent show, Opportunity Knocks and recommended her to Paul McCartney.
(2) Her first hit song was produced by Paul McCartney and was released in the UK on 30 August 1968, her version became a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart despite competition from a well-established star, Sandie Shaw, who released her version of the same song as a single that same year .On 2 October 1968 she appeared at St Paul's Cathedral, London for the 'Pop Experience' where she sang "Morning Of My Life" and "Turn Turn Turn" She also sang the title tracks for two of Stanley Baker's films, Where's Jack? and Kidnapped.
(3) On 21 February 1969 her debut album, Postcard, also produced by McCartney, was released. It included covers of three songs from Donovan, who also played on the album, and one song each from George Martin and Harry Nilsson. It reached number three on the UK Albums Chart, although it proved to be her solitary success story in that particular chart. In the United States Postcard reached Number 28 on the Billboard albums chart
(4) Her third single, " Temma Harbour ", was released on 16 January 1970 and peaked at Number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. In March of that year she represented the United Kingdom in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest singing "Knock Knock, Who's There". But despite being the pre-contest favourite, she came second to "All Kinds of Everything”, performed by Irish singer Dana.
(5) Although no other singles or albums came out in her name until 1976, she sang on numerous recordings that her husband Tony Visconti produced, such as those featuring Tom Paxton, Ralph McTell, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy, Sarstedt Brothers, and Elaine Paige.
(6) She made a guest appearance on The Crocketts' album The Great Brain Robbery, sang the theme song for Billy Connolly's BBC TV series The World Tour, and re-recorded "Those Were The Days" with Robin Williams rapping. She also appeared in the Sarah Sugarman film Very Annie Mary and duetted with Dolly Parton on her 2005 album, Those Were the Days.......................................................................................................................................................................
Siempre engullo demasiado pastel en las fiestas. - I always wolf down too much cake at parties.
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for engullir.
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Work Wisdom
- Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation: The less important
you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or
absence is noticed.
- The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to
increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect
on your take-home pay.
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Here´s the weather for Alicante Province
Young Love
One night at the dinner table, the wife commented, "When we
were first married, you took the small piece of steak and
gave me the larger. Now you take the large one and leave me
the smaller. You don't love me any more?"
"Nonsense, darling," replied the husband, "you just cook
better now."
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonald's , KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,
no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bullies always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !
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Music Stuff March 7th
1953, Guy Mitchell UK No.1 'She Wears Red Feathers'.
1962, The Beatles recorded their first radio appearance, at the Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, for the BBC radio program ‘Teenager's Turn - Here We Go’.
1964, for the first time ever the UK Top Ten Singles Chart was composed entirely of British acts.
1964, The Dave Clark Five made their radio debut on the BBC's 'Saturday Club.'
1966, Mike Millward guitarist from The Fourmost died, aged 23.
1966, Tina Turner recorded her vocal on the Phil Spector produced 'River Deep Mountain High'.
1967, The Beatles recorded additional overdubs for ‘Lovely Rita’
1970, Lee Marvin UK No.1 with 'Wand'rin Star', taken from the film 'Paint Your Wagon.'
1970, Simon and Garfunkels album 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' No.1 on the US chart.
1976, Elton John was immortalised in wax at Madame Tussauds in London.
1987, The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! were released on Compact disc.
1988, British pedal steel guitar player Gordon Huntley died of cancer. Was a member of Matthews Southern Comfort, (UK No.1 single 'Woodstock) and worked with many acts including Elton John, Rod Stewart, The Pretty Things, Cliff Richard and Fairport Convention.
1998, Madonna UK No.1 with 'Frozen' the singers eighth UK No.1.
1999, Boyzone scored their fifth UK No. 1 single with 'When The Going Gets Tough'... recorded for Comic Relief
2004, Britney Spears scored her fourth UK No.1 single with 'Toxic',
Birthday Boys and Girls March 7th
1945, Chris White, bass, The Zombies
1946, Matthew Fisher, Procol Harum
1948, Little Peggy March, US singer
1952, Ernie Isley, The Isley Brothers
Another grey and rainy day but a buoyant show with Cool Fm. Neil Colbourne joined me on the show and on the phone I spoke with Iris, Paul Melba and Ron Mitchell. The texts were flooding in and I thoroughly enjoyed the show. Iris had quite a few telling her it was Mary Hopkins. Last night I watched Real Madrid scrape a win against Sevilla. Ronaldo was extremelygood and the Sevilla goalkeeper was brilliant. Well done Portsmouth and come on Reading, Stoke and Tottenham
Three conservative regions of Spain defended bullfighting on Friday and pledged legislation to enshrine it as a pillar of their cultural heritage, as another area of the country considers banning the sport.
Bullfighting remains very popular in some regions of Spain, but it is no longer the powerful draw it was generations ago. Today´s crowds at bull rings are largely middle-aged, while younger generations find their heroes in music or soccer. Some people find the killing and bloodshed of the sport too repugnant.
But in Spain, it is up to each region to decide whether to keep bullfighting legal, not the national government. Full Story
.................................................................................................................................................................................................
Iris's Challenge .Answer at the foot of the page.(1) Was born 3 May 1950,and is a Welsh folk singer. She is best known as one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label. The model Twiggy saw her winning the British ITV television talent show, Opportunity Knocks and recommended her to Paul McCartney.
(2) Her first hit song was produced by Paul McCartney and was released in the UK on 30 August 1968, her version became a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart despite competition from a well-established star, Sandie Shaw, who released her version of the same song as a single that same year .On 2 October 1968 she appeared at St Paul's Cathedral, London for the 'Pop Experience' where she sang "Morning Of My Life" and "Turn Turn Turn" She also sang the title tracks for two of Stanley Baker's films, Where's Jack? and Kidnapped.
(3) On 21 February 1969 her debut album, Postcard, also produced by McCartney, was released. It included covers of three songs from Donovan, who also played on the album, and one song each from George Martin and Harry Nilsson. It reached number three on the UK Albums Chart, although it proved to be her solitary success story in that particular chart. In the United States Postcard reached Number 28 on the Billboard albums chart
(4) Her third single, " Temma Harbour ", was released on 16 January 1970 and peaked at Number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. In March of that year she represented the United Kingdom in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest singing "Knock Knock, Who's There". But despite being the pre-contest favourite, she came second to "All Kinds of Everything”, performed by Irish singer Dana.
(5) Although no other singles or albums came out in her name until 1976, she sang on numerous recordings that her husband Tony Visconti produced, such as those featuring Tom Paxton, Ralph McTell, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy, Sarstedt Brothers, and Elaine Paige.
(6) She made a guest appearance on The Crocketts' album The Great Brain Robbery, sang the theme song for Billy Connolly's BBC TV series The World Tour, and re-recorded "Those Were The Days" with Robin Williams rapping. She also appeared in the Sarah Sugarman film Very Annie Mary and duetted with Dolly Parton on her 2005 album, Those Were the Days.......................................................................................................................................................................
Word of the Day
engullir ehn-goo-yeer' (transitive verb)
to devour, to gobble up, to wolf down, to bolt downEXAMPLES
Cuando tenía 6 años, mi sobrina engullía libros, casi a uno por día. - When she was 6 years old, my niece devoured books, almost one every day.Siempre engullo demasiado pastel en las fiestas. - I always wolf down too much cake at parties.
For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for engullir.
.......................................................................................................................................
Work Wisdom
- Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation: The less important
you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or
absence is noticed.
- The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to
increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect
on your take-home pay.
.........................................................................................
Here´s the weather for Alicante Province
| Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday |
 14° C | 6° C |
14° C | 3° C |
11° C | 1° C |
 13° C | 3° C |
|
One night at the dinner table, the wife commented, "When we
were first married, you took the small piece of steak and
gave me the larger. Now you take the large one and leave me
the smaller. You don't love me any more?"
"Nonsense, darling," replied the husband, "you just cook
better now."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonald's , KFC, Subway or Nandos.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum and some bangers to blow up frogs with.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY ,no video/dvd films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...
We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT
Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bullies always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law!
Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL !
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music Stuff March 7th1953, Guy Mitchell UK No.1 'She Wears Red Feathers'.
1962, The Beatles recorded their first radio appearance, at the Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, for the BBC radio program ‘Teenager's Turn - Here We Go’.
1964, for the first time ever the UK Top Ten Singles Chart was composed entirely of British acts.
1964, The Dave Clark Five made their radio debut on the BBC's 'Saturday Club.'
1966, Mike Millward guitarist from The Fourmost died, aged 23.
1966, Tina Turner recorded her vocal on the Phil Spector produced 'River Deep Mountain High'.
1967, The Beatles recorded additional overdubs for ‘Lovely Rita’
1970, Lee Marvin UK No.1 with 'Wand'rin Star', taken from the film 'Paint Your Wagon.'
1970, Simon and Garfunkels album 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' No.1 on the US chart.
1976, Elton John was immortalised in wax at Madame Tussauds in London.
1987, The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! were released on Compact disc.
1988, British pedal steel guitar player Gordon Huntley died of cancer. Was a member of Matthews Southern Comfort, (UK No.1 single 'Woodstock) and worked with many acts including Elton John, Rod Stewart, The Pretty Things, Cliff Richard and Fairport Convention.
1998, Madonna UK No.1 with 'Frozen' the singers eighth UK No.1.
1999, Boyzone scored their fifth UK No. 1 single with 'When The Going Gets Tough'... recorded for Comic Relief
2004, Britney Spears scored her fourth UK No.1 single with 'Toxic',
Birthday Boys and Girls March 7th1945, Chris White, bass, The Zombies
1946, Matthew Fisher, Procol Harum
1948, Little Peggy March, US singer
1952, Ernie Isley, The Isley Brothers
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