Promising youngster Martin Amis is 62 today (as is his exact contemporary Gene Simmons of Kiss). Elvis Costello turns 57, Howard Jacobson hits 69, and Sean Connery achieves 81. How old does this make you feel?
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
When I was a callow youth my birthday morning song was always:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gXI64ELVI
But at 32 it seemed a wee bit sad. At that point the decision was made to switch songs, for the forseeable future.
Time indeed Nige.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyweeVrnG74
Pretty young, Nige, since you ask! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat's because you are, Kate!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the memories, Banished - Time indeed...
Do stop it Nige - you'll be telling us how many shopping days there are 'til Christmas next.
ReplyDeleteChristmas?! We should live so long. At our age every day is a little triumph, hard won.
ReplyDeleteChristmas already!
Hurricane here right now, 90 mph winds by teatime so I'm not kidding LOL
You think you've got it bad....it's spitting on to rain here in Yorkshire.
ReplyDeleteIts always spittin' on in Yorkshire in August owd lad.
ReplyDeleteIts siling it down now.