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Ten on the Tenth

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I am linking up with Shimelle again with another list! Ooooh how I love lists.

My Desert Island Discs

Plus 2 (thanks Shimelle) because you can only really take 8 records to the Island.
Desert Island Discs is an extremely popular radio programme over here in the UK, which began in 1942. The current presenter is Kirsty Young, very simply, she invites her guest to choose 8 records that they would take to a desert Island. They tell the story of their life and the music and Kirsty plays the piece. On to the Island you can also take a book (The Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare are already there) and you can take a luxury item.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr

I started to put this list together a few years ago but I found it impossible to finish. I would find it impossible to choose 10 CD’s. How can you choose just 10 pieces of music or 10 songs?

Here are 5 pieces of Classical and 5 tracks that I really love, and have loved for a very long time. I am not saying it’s my definitive list mind!

LO Chrissy W Two Peas and the paper is Katie Pertiet


Mahler Symphony No.5, 4th Mvt “Adagietto”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFQQsu6VBYA
“Wouldn’t you just die without Mahler?” from the film Educating Rita. Yes I think might.

Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 Mov. 2 (Scene by the Brook) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXm1OgOISv4
Quite simply, it reminds me of my mother. Her favourite piece of music was Elizabethan Serenade which I think it sounds like this Beethoven piece.

Sibelius Karelia Suite Op.11; Intermezzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtIw5AkUEsE
This stirs my soul, I love the way it rises and rises to a wonderful crescendo and just seems to take my breath away until it is over. I turn the radio right up when I hear the opening notes.

E.Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16 – II.Adagio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CJDZTUnhPA&feature=related
Just the most beautiful, romantic, quiet, silky soft and gentle piece..

The Balcony Scene by Craig Ogden
This is from the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmanns Romeo + Juliet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3KyWWW8pA
I listen to this every night at the moment to help send me off to sleep.

So, some classical pieces that are food for my soul. The following five take me to a time, a place or a person or all three!

Van Morrison Into the Mystic from Astral weeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVAnlke_xUY
I first heard Van Morison in the mid seventies, quite late for a Van Fan and this track is from one of the first LP’S I had of his. I have a huge collection of his music now and really found it impossible to choose just one so I went for this earlier track, his voice is quite young and of course so was I. It takes me right back to the cottage where I lived in 1970 something.

Christie Moore So do I from Live at the Point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u50h9thpJSE
This CD takes me to my friend’s kitchen and a pair of kittens Oh so many years ago. I am sure I must have told this story before? Another time perhaps.
I cannot choose between Christy and Van, they are entwined in my heart. I chose this track because it reminds me of my dearest friend who lost her battle with cancer a few years ago now. No doubt I could tell that story too!

Bob Dylan A Simple Twist of Fate from Budokan
A very long time ago Bob Dylan played in Birmingham. The box office opened early one morning at the theatre in Oxford. As we lived quite near we decided to go along and get tickets. Oh if only it had been that easy. We queued for 14 hours before we got to the front of the queue! Yes of course it was worth it, I have loved Bob’s music forever. And this was the first concert (I think they are called gigs now) that I went to. This is also my favourite album, I like the atmosphere of it, and as I can only have one track this is it.

Dire Straits You’re so far away from Sultans of Swing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hVKG9wFelk&feature=related
Another story waiting to be told. This is from the tape that we took into hospital when I went for my egg recovery at the IVF clinic in 1988. It takes me right back to the day, the room, the hour. We listened to Dire Straits music a lot around that very special time in our lives.


The Mavericks Dance the night away from Trampoline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81ph3BslqQ

In June 1999 we went out to Montreal for Paul’s work. We had hoped to stay there but life had other plans. Anyway before we left the UK, our friends had a wonderful party for us. This was one of the tracks that takes me back to Elaine’s garden, dancing on the lawn in the early hours of the morning.
Two nights before the party we went to see The Mavericks in Birmingham.

OK, what book to take?
A book of blank pages so that I could write down all my thoughts, hopes and dreams? with the pencil that would never run out of course.

My luxury item would be my camera with a never ending supply of batteries and memory.
Would I really like to go? Would you like to go?
Another post perhaps…

Shimelles blog is here, but the link isn’t working yet, perhaps later?

Project 365

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OOps! I completely forgot to post this. It obviously came together far too easily, then promptly left my mind. Does that happen to you?

We went to an art exhibition at the weekend. It was by a guy called Stephen Magrath and was about how he sees and thinks about the brain of a person that has dementia. Sounds heavy but it was wonderful. His interpretations were stunning. There was also a poetry reading by a lady called Karen Hayes who read from her book “The Edges of Everywhere” Poems written with the words of people with dementia. Funny, sad, touching, insightful and working with people with dementia, unsurprising, of course these people have a voice, we just need to listen harder to hear it.
We had a very intersting morning and as it was the preview day there was gorgeous food and wine!
For the first time since we have lived here, at the weekend we went to the castle at Banwell for a Somerset Cream Tea. It was fabulous. We sat in the conservatory with the sun shining, overlooking the Mendips and there was even a peacock wandering about the place.
My car had some tlc this week, new tyres, MOT which it passed and a service.
I was looking for Red Violet for Project 64, I had a lovely new colour on my nails ‘passionate plum’ and I also have a picture of me!
Template is from Chrissy W P365 set 3 at Two Peas

Ten on the Tenth

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I have decided on a list for Shimelle’s 10 Things on the tenth project.
Oh how I love lists! and as I have almost finished a LO to go with this post it will fit in nicely with Amy’s Scrapping the everyday.

A very easy one to start with but there may only be nine because the number nine seems to be speaking to me this week.

We love to watch a film in the evening, and do so three or four times a week. There are some films we watch over and over again: we have a huge (embarrassingly huge) collection of DVD’s!

Ten films we have seen in the last couple of weeks

Valentines Day: A very amusing celebration of love and populated with lots of ‘famous names’ (19 it says on the box) which we have fun with because we know we have seen them recently but just can’t remember in what…

Ratatouille: One of my favourites, especially as I thought a film about a rat was going to be ridiculous. If I have another Greyhound I will call her Linguini!

Ae fond kiss: An unexpected find about a relationship between an Irish girl and a Muslim boy. Lovely, lovely film. Directed by Ken Loach, you can’t go wrong then.

The Last of the Blond Bombshells: I saw this on Play.com in a list of ‘British films’ something that immediately draws us to. Dame Judy Dench and a list of stars play in this wonderful film about an older woman (and grandmother) who wants to reunite a swing band she was in during the war. Very witty with great music.

The Kings Speech: King George VI had a speech impediment. This is the story of his impromptu ascension to the British throne and his speech therapist who helped him beat the impediment and became his friend. Well I just loved it, (and Him) so much so I watched it again on my own a few days later.

Kinky Boots: I love love love this film. Chiwetel Ejiofor (The groom in Love Actually) is wonderful in it and the music is fabulous. A shoe factory on the brink of closure, a chance remark followed by a very unexpected meeting, turn their fortune around. It is based on a true story, which, I think, always makes for a good film.

Invictus: Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandella in his first term as president of SA and his dream to make their rugby team a symbol of national pride, unite the country and win the world cup in 1995. A wonderful film.

Hachi: Another film based on a true story. Richard Gere plays Prof Parker Wilson who finds a lost Akita puppy on the way home from work…. The Akita is one of Japan’s national treasures, an interesting dog and a good film. Not the usual Richard Gere film and you will need a hanky for this one but worth a watch.

Blind Side: Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for Best Actress for this. Another one based on a true story. It is the story of a family who ‘find’ a new son and brother whom they nurture to become an America football star. It says ‘uplifting’ on the box and that’s just what it is.

Extraordinary Measures: Harrison Ford. Yet another based on a true story!
This as similar to Lorenzo’s Oil which I saw many years ago. A family with three children, two of whom have Pompe disease. Father, Brendan Fraser, and scientist, Harrison Ford, join forces to discover and produce a life saving cure for these and other children. Another uplifting evenings entertainment.

I buy our films from Play.com or the Supermarket and only if they are v. cheap!
Except, The Kings Speech, which I paid £10.00 for because I wouldn’t go to the cinema (on a list of things I don’t like!) and wanted to see it as soon as possible to stop people nagging me!