Sanity is over rated
Posted: April 11, 2020 Filed under: LOVE | Tags: Bee Gees, community, corona virus, covid19, love, love in the time of rona, peace, single mother advice, social media Leave a commentWays to help ourselves in the time of covid19:
Avoid expert guidance from wealthy influencers who live in massive houses when you’re stuck in a small flat
Turn off the TV when the corona virus celebrity advice special comes on
Avoid listening to politicians who talk endlessly about the economy. We’re a community
Borrow a dog or a cat or a rabbit and stroke their fur to lower blood pressure
Wear your pyjamas all day if it helps
Send a postcard to a nursing home wishing the locked away oldies and nursing staff well
Check on your neighbours
Burn your bra
Enjoy your sleep in
Shop local
Cherish your time off the treadmill
Dream a little dream
Watch Gene Kelly dance in Singing In The Rain
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Everything is disposable except people
Posted: December 11, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: beating cancer, Bee Gees, Cancer, friendship, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, love 3 CommentsA beautiful soul just left the earth too soon. I see too many sweet young souls die in my work life. I hope she is in the arms of the angels. One day cancer will be a bad memory.
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I hope you’re dancing
Posted: May 21, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Self improvement, SONGS, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: 70s music, Bee Gees, disco, Robin Gibb, Stayin Alive, Thank you for the music, Vale Robin Gibb, Whether You're a Mother or whether you're a brother, You Should Be Dancing Leave a commentRobin Gibb died today. The boogie of the Bee Gees was a big part of my childhood. I loved their tight, white pants, their blow dried hair and their harmonies. So many musicians who were a shining part of my youth have died in the last few weeks and I want to say thank you for the music that kept me dancing and kept me sane. Thank you Robin Gibb for your beautiful voice, it will live on.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I’ve been kicked around since I was born.
And now it’s all right, it’s OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
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Teenagers
Posted: May 23, 2011 Filed under: LOVE, Parenting, Raising Hell, SONGS | Tags: Barbie, Bee Gees, cougars, falsetto, minimalism, palaeolithic, parenting, Teenagers 1 CommentTeenagers are like Queensland, beautiful one day, a nightmare the next.
On Saturday my 14 year daughter glanced down at her floor-drobe. She had nothing to wear but clothes that were fashionable at breakfast time. All this while I turn into an aging cougar. Except that I am the anti-cougar, the tracksuit pants wearing tragedy in tired trainers, wishing I had some energy left over from mothering and working to desire a makeover.
This week teenage beast cleaned up her floor-drobe and turned into an interior design fascist. She wants me to be the queen of minimalism on a single mother budget. If her sisters place so much as a Barbie on the floor she screams.
She is also a control freak about the music we listen to at home. I mention the Bee Gees and she looked blank. I said,
“Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth there were three brothers who wore tight white pants and hair-drier-fluffy-wind-blown hair singing falsetto disco hits.”
“Shit mum, they sound Palaeolithic.” There is no one more hip than a teenager and no one who has ever suffered more.
So I dedicate this song to her. Whether you’re a mother or whether you’re a brother…..
loupollard 