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Ione had  a blog post about her top 40 songs and invited others to post their music choice in.  I dredged through my memories to come up with the songs that I’ve enjoyed listening to in the past. I admit some very strange (and obscure) choices amongst them but I spent many an hour listening to them once I discovered the walkman!

I’m also including my choice here for my own reference and searchability (comment on Ione’s blog though please)

u2 - still haven’t found what i’m looking for - A favourite and also by Brussel Spaceship who miswrote it into “I still haven’t found the M&S store”

simple minds - dont you forget about me - an early tape with one of my favourite tracks - it just went on and on and on.

marillion - warm wet circles - On a mix tape a friend made for me at school.

meatloaf - bat out of hell/Dead ringer - fond memories of listening to this on my walkman at the top of a very steep hill having ridden UP on my mountain bike, drinking an ice cold coke and then TANKING down the hill again with this roaring in my ears.

abba - super trooper (I preferred the serious aardvarks version - Another greenbelt fav - The Serious Aardvarks played a punk version - at their last ever concert. I’ve not managed to find a copy and Google has one mention (now two) of the Serious Aardvarks.

The call - Let the day begin- introduced to this at greenbelt - awesome song when played loud and with lots of bass.

steve taylor - i want to be a clone- the whole concept is amusing to me. One I can just about get all the words out too.

petra - somebody’s gonna praise his name- Great tune, lyrics and a drum solo.

Jerusalem - Dancing on the Head of the Serpent - nice air guitar possible on this - woudl be fun on rockband.

Paul Young - toast - - a strange song.

queen - Gimme the prize- Highlander was one of my favourite films - probably because it was the first 15 certificate I saw.

b52’s - loveshack - A greenbelt fav - I had many good times in the youth tent enjoying the fun and messy games - this song and The Call’s was often played.

coldplay - clocks - (reminds me of our cruise as this was one of the name that tune questions)

otis redding - sitting on the dock of the bay - for my more mellow moments.

israel kamakawiwo’ole - over the rainbow- Another mellow song.

Nescafe’s I can see clearly now (Johnny Cash) - spanish version at - Not sure why but I liked the advert - I couldn’t find the english version so this is a terrible alternative.

sixpence none the richer - kiss me “our song” -

Happy Monday’s - Step On (Twistin’ My Melon) - played at the first party I went to paired with
KLF Justified and Ancient

Quireboys - Hey You - no idea how I came to like their stuff - friend at school I think.

Thanks for the memory jogger Ione - I also like a lot of the other songs mentioned by others but I’m running out of time and already spent about 90 minutes doing this! The funny thing is the music can’t be that bad as Winston has sat in front of the speakers throughout the whole period of reminiscing

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Well almost….. The tree guys eventually turned up on Thursday this week – they were meant to have been here Monday, and the downed tree has now been removed. The stump and the other half of the tree remains – we’ll have to get rid of that soon as it’s not stable. However most tree companies are charging silly rates at the moment so we’ll wait a while for the work to die off.

This morning I finished chopping up the rest of the fallen limbs and carting them out to the front of the garden to be picked up by Dublin. The guys did a great job earlier in the week picking up the wood from the front garden and so I had space to fill it all back up with the back garden. I had another big branch suspended from the tree out the back, but this one was not nearly as painful (in all manners of speaking) to remove – it came out pretty quickly and with no injuries unlike the first branch which left me feeling like ^{I should be blogging in superscript for a few days}

I now have all the small twigs and leaves to rake up which will be a job for the rest of this week in the evening – hopefully it won’t take too much time – still on the bright side with the amount of branches that fell, thats a lot fewer leaves to rake up this year.

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I’ve posted a few of the pictures of the trees that fell when Hurricane Ike blew through Ohio. The crazy thing is that North Carolina (that was meant to get the hurricanes earlier in the week) was hardly affected. Hopefully some tree surgeons will be here tomorrow and my insurance people will be talking to his insurance people. Hopefully they do bother to show up rather than go somewhere else as we need to talk to them about taking the other trees down.

I actually went and got an electric chain saw from Lowes yesterday to try and tidy up some of the damage. Amazingly they still had some saws left, but only a choice of 2 electric or 2 gas powered ones. As the electric was $60 and the gas ones $250 I got the electric (as we have power).  I was surprised at how well it works and was very pleased that I got it rather than a hand saw. It was a slight risk as the next time we have a storm we may not have power, but I figured that if we don’t have power it’s unlikely that I’m going to want to start chopping branches up anyway.

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In ironic news, Ohio was affected worse by the hurricanes than the Outer Banks - we ended up without power for a day in Ohio but didn’t have any hurricane outages in the Outer Banks (although we did have a power outage when the weather was gorgeous).  The good news is we now have power back at the house - I was able to find this out by checking to see if I could connect to our internet router back home - when I was able to do this I knew the power was back.  The bad news is that we have two trees down in the garden.  One is across the driveway and the other narrowly missed the next door neighbours house.  Not looking forward to dealing with those two.

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