Showing posts with label Foundations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foundations. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 September 2024

Snapshots #359 - A Top Ten Songs To Help You Get Better


If you're feeling a little under the weather today, take ten of these and see me in the morning...


10. Do you want a job, Zane? No? Too bewildering?

"A job, Zane" is an anagram...

Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome

9. Spend 24 hours with the Reverend and the Professor.

The Reverend Al and Professor Green invite you for the day...

Green Day - When I Come Around

8. No wimps allowed in this family.

They're All Man!

Allman Brothers Band - Revival

7. Parabola.

One for the mathematicians...

Curve - Recovery

6. Firm enough to build on. 

The Foundations - Back On My Feet Again

5. Wet Wet Wet.

SOAK - Get Well Soon

4. One of us.

John Medd - I'm On The Mend

3. Womanise Huey? That sounds confusing.

"Womanise Huey" was an anagram...

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

2. Found in the garden, with six others.

Shed Seven - Getting Better

1. Where Tarzan swung, he listened.

Marvin Gaye - (Sexual) Healing


Hope you're all feeling well enough to join me back here next Saturday...

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Memory Mixtape #12: Buttercups

These are my favourite photos from my early childhood. There I am, running through the buttercups in the field at the back of the small farm I grew up on. That's my sister in the top photo, showing me which way to go. My mum has the camera. These are earlier than my memories stretch back, but I'm guessing I hadn't been walking long, and you can see the sense of joyous freedom on my face as I charge across that field.  

The big pile of rocks at the top of the first photo is probably the one I fell on when I was a little older, cutting my wrist open on a broken bottle, requiring stitches I can still see today. Less than a centimetre from the main artery. I do remember that day, possibly one of my earliest memories. A tea-towel wrapped tight around my wrist as my mum drove me to A&E.

"You didn't cry," Mum tells me, "until they stuck a needle in your bottom at the hospital. Then you howled."



Sunday, 29 July 2018

Saturday Snapshots #43 - The Answers


You don't bring me flowers anymore... the least you could do is bring me the answers to this week's Saturday Snapshots. No need to feel Guilty if you didn't get them all right...

Martin was this week's winner, though he needed help with some of the answers from C, FurryBoots and ChrisCharity Chic gets extra points for the detective work involved in cracking #10.


10. Three step Eddie takes an E with a boy cat on the road to death.


A boy cat is a Tom.

Add an e to (Eddie) Cochran and you get Cochrane.

The road to death? Life.

Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway

9. Mo Farah heads away from the East End.


Mo Farrah is an Athlete.

Leaving the East End will take you to the Westside.

Athlete - Westside

8. CB airgun endorses Kate's cloudbusting prediction.


Yes, CB airgun is an anagram of Bic Runga.

In Cloudbusting, Kate knew that something good was gonna happen.

Bic Runga - Something Good

7. Made up flowers for the construction industry.


The base of make up is Foundation.

The Foundations - Build Me Up, Buttercup

6. David Ruffin discovers the edge of Stevie's paradise.


David Ruffin was a Temptation.

Steve Nicks sung about The Edge of Seventeen.

Paradise is heaven.

Heaven 17 - Temptation

5. Curling irons cause Sonny & Cher's baby to go missing.


Curling irons cause split ends.

Sonny & Cher sang I Got You, Babe. If their baby went missing...

Split Enz - I Got You

4. I feel my favourite ballads of all time.


I feel emotions. (Well, sometimes.)

My favourite ballads would be The Best Of My Love.

The Emotions - The Best Of My Love

3. When you quit like that, you'll get Cash with one last wage slip.


Johnny (Cash) gets one final Paycheck when he quits...

Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It

2. Travel east for E-cigs.


E-cigs involve vapours, for Vaping.

If you travel east, you could be turning towards Japan.

The Vapors - Turning Japanese

1. Lucky boy starts to believe in purification again.


A lucky boy would be a fortunate son.

Believing something involves credence. Water purication makes it clear. Starting again is a revival.



Test your Memory again next Saturday morning...

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