When you get tagged by Tara Cain it’s imperative that you respond or you’ll never hear the last of it.
I made that mistake last time and haven’t been allowed to forget it.
Well Tara, you won’t get your pound of flesh this time because I’ve done it. So there.
This meme is called Stories and Songs and was started by Brits in Bosnia before being passed on to Tara.
The recipient chooses a song that transports them back to a place and time and they have to write about the memory they attribute to the song. Apparently it doesn’t have to be a favourite song.
The first song I ever remember hearing on the radio was Morningtown Ride by The Seekers. I must have been about 3(ish) (1971/72) sitting in the kitchen drinking a beaker of milky sweet tea and I remember my mother singing along as she washed up at the kitchen sink. She looked so happy as she got lost in the music.
Here’s the song:
I’m tagging a whole load of people I used to know in the blogging world but haven’t kept in contact with. It’s something I regret but when home life became more pressing than blogging, it was a natural consequence.
Anyway, I’m not even sure if these people are still blogging, I took their web addresses straight from a list I keep in my shirt pocket right next to my heart. Oh, fine then, it’s actually on a spreadsheet. I guess I’ll find out what they’re up to as I visit the through the week and let them know they’ve been tagged.
Turf Dad
Mike
Professional Blogger for hire Vered
Green Jello
Kool Aid
Professional SEO Writing Jamie
notSupermum
Julie
Awesome Daddy Blogger Ron
Avlor
I know that some of the people on this list are not into memes, and that’s OK, I just wanted to throw a link out to some people I used to know. The next time I get tagged I’ll link to a load more people I used to know, and so on, until I’ve run out of people I used to know, if that makes any sense at all?
BTW, my posting schedule here has gone all to rats because I’m busy in my shed building something. I’ll show it to you when it’s done. And just in case you were wondering, it’s not a large hadron collider, sliced bread or a time machine, because those things have already been invented.
Oh, yeah, and some guy I wish I used to know has started a new website about funny things children say, and is going to be a lot of fun.
Dave
Selfish Blogger
Patricia (44)
Tracy (35)
Anne Galivan (19)
Adrenalynn (18)
Tara@Sticky Fingers (16)
Blogger Dad (12)
Mike Goad (7)
Tim Brownson (6)
Kelloggsville (4)
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Tag, I’m it, huh? *giggle* cool! Thanks for the link, Selfish – although you really aren’t all that selfish
. I’ll have to think about this one….
That’s impressive! You found out before I had a chance to tell you!
I have yet to visit the other people and let them know, although I’m thinking TurfDad might not be blogging as I can’t access his site.
I look forward to seeing what you choose.
I love the suits and ties…and I was in a singing group about 1968 and touring the southern USA….and I wore long hippie dresses….JESUS Saves S&H green stamps I think was the favorite song we performed….I sang a great many Irish folk ballads…as solos…
Thanks for sharing…I do not find you very selfish either
I think they were probably very beautiful times. I’d love to be able to sing.
And thank you for saying you don’t fnd me very selfish
I was going to wait a year to comment . . .
Pah, I just don’t have your staying power.
Who invented the time machine? I am going to invent the time machine as you will see in the past when I go back in time to tell you, that I have invented the time machine. I hope nobody has stolen my time machine and said they invented it when really it was me and they have just locked me in my garage so they can go back in time. I wonder if I could come back from the future to today and tell me how I invented the time machine as that would save a lot of hassle in the long run…
Oh and great song and memory. I shall be humming it all day now.
LMAO. That made me laugh. I’ve read it five times and I still can’t get my head around it.
I can’t tell you who invented the time machine, but I can tell you who invented sliced bread. It was my grandad. He told me he invented sliced bread and I believed him. Seeing it wriiten down like this almost makes it a fact! Almost.
Glad you liked the song.
Dave…..is that really you? Oh my god, you look GREAT!
I’ll be back….
It is me. I’ve been trying to hide, but it hasn’t really worked.
Sorry, I meant to let everyone know they’d been tagged but I’ve been sidetracked.
I’m doing man stuff and it requires lots of concentration.
When you say I look great, do you mean I look very orange?? Hehe.