A little game for you!!! (I got 3 wrong!!)

Watch (listen) to the clip below and see if you can name the theme tunes to those much loved shows from our past!!!

Answers below.........but dont look untill you have finished!! ;)





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no cheating now...............




I can tell you looking.............................. *covers self up*


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1. Superstars
2. Citizen Smith
3. John Craven's Newsround
4. Cheggers Plays Pop
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
6. Just Good Friends
7. Call My Bluff
8. Bod
9. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole
10. Tales Of The Unexpected.
11. Mr Benn
12. Only When I Laugh
13. World In Action
14. The Good Life
15. Trumpton
16. Crossroads
17. Brushstrokes
18. The Mister Men
19. Bullseye
20. Magpie
21. Terry and June
22. The Wombles
23. Rising Damp
24. Auf Wiedersehn, Pet!
25. Blockbusters
26. Open All Hours
27. Picture Box
28. Play Your Cards Right
29. Allo Allo
30. It Ain't Half Hot Mum


Well??..............how many did you score??

Vix x

Just found this haunting piano version of ELO's "Twilight" and it sent shivvers down my back!

Quite simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard!

enjoy! x

Yours truely, outside the cottage.......nice piccy of the bins! LOL!



Derek first thing in the morning...he is none too happy about this!



Our delightful little cottage that was once part of an old tin mine....set deep in the dark, foreboding wood!



Sirius and Derek pose at the door!!! You can just make out Sirius paws!!



Sirius on the rug with his toys!!



Sirius guards the front door!!



Very quaint cast iron stove in our living room!



Our cottage kitchen!!



....and the bedroom!!



Huge quartz crystal I bought in Looe!



Beach at sunset in Looe!



......Derek signs the guest book, before we have to leave! booo hooo!!



Hop you enjoyed!! I certianly did, as did Derek and Sirius! x

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LOL!!
Just untill I get the proper piccies!



Before I begin, please keep an eye on this entry for piccies, as at the present time I can't find my phone cable to upload pictures from my phone!!


So watch this space!!

Derek and I always find it most benifical to take a pre-Christmas, short break some where and this year we chose an isloted 1 bedroom cottage that had once been an engine house for a nearby tin mine. Beautifully restored by the National Trust as you will see in the photos I shall upload soon. But kept mostly in a very cosy, traditional style!
Decending, rather steeply and bumpily in our car, and about a mile from the tiny local village, we followed a tiny track, almost hidden by dense woods, only to drive slowly and steadily for another mile, still decending into the heart of the wood. There is a warning sign saying this is your last chance to turn around, about half a mile from the cottage. It was quite forboding realy, spooky and silent apart from startled birds flapping out of our way, and the rush of a bubbling stream. As we continued on I started to wonder if the cottage actually existed at all, as we seemed to be decending so very deep into this steep sided valley. Sure enough we came to a small clearing and our home for the next 3 nights at "Engine Cottage"...a tiny and yet delightful, squat building painted white with a lovely old "stable door" split style front door. I adored it at first sight, and totaly forgot about just how isloated and deep within the woods we were.
Sirius took an immiedate delight to the stable doors!
He has an odd habbit of stading on his hind legs to look over things, and the stable doors, he found were a wonderful oulet for doing this!!
Now because of the position of this cottage there is absolutly no TV or mobile phone reception, which makes you feel a bit cut off...but what a wonderful way to get away from it all!!!! Although I did think this was not a good place to be for someone suffering from heart problams or who might have a stroke, because the chances of getting any help, quickly, were miniscule! Also walking in the area was quite hazardus as many disused mine shafts still lay dangerously open, so walking with care was the order of the day. At night it was absolutly pitch black, and when I looked out of the bedrrom window one evening, I could see nothing but blackness, and hear nothing apart from the russtling trees and the distant hooting of a lonely owl...hastily I scambled back into our 6 foot wide bed and snuggled up with Sirius and a warming glass of Port!
Our days out included, Tintagel, St Austel, Looe, Jamacia Inn, Bodmin moor, Lands End, and other various quaint villages with brightly painted houses often in gaudy colours! I somehow managed to get ripped off on our visit to Tintagel as in a posh looking gift shop my eye caught sight of a "lord of the rings" ring with elvish writing on it. How delightful? I thought and asked about the cost....I nearly has a hissy fit when the shop manager said £240 for the gold ring!!! "we have silver rings that are only £26!" he offered, which was a bit more in my price range so I began to try them on..."they are real silver arn't they?" I had asked as I could not make out the inside mark on the ring. "Oh yes!" he promised...the reason I asked was because I can not wear anything that is not silver or pure gold, otherwise I turn green!!!!!!!!! Anyway I compleatly belived him and bought the ring only to discover the next morning it had turned my finger so green Percy Thrower would have been envious!!!!!! I was simply furious!!! and Tintagel was too far a drive to go back and complain, so I have had to keep the bloomin thing, and may well sell it on ebay as being a "fake" silver ring!..........it wasn't all bad though as I had a mooch around the shops in Poole only to come upon a "rock shop!" For those of you that don't know I have had a life long love affair with collecting rocks, minerals and semi precious stones, and at this shop I found a glittering lump of pure quartz with perfectly formed transparent crystals!!! It was a snip at £45!! and came home with me!! Also at the amazing Jamacia inn Derek and I had a tasty lunch and later a look around this wonderful place that had once featured on "most haunted". At the back was a huge gift shop and Derek bought me a stunning Austrian crystal blue drop necklace, which more than made up for the ring fiasco....and it dident make my neck go green!!
Sadly and all too quickly, our short break came to an end, and yesterday morning we packed in relative silence as both of us dident want to leave! The drive back seemed to last a million years (255 miles to be exact) but we stopped several times so Sirius could have a wee and water and we could have tea and sandwiches. We finally got back at 9pm, and were in bed, exhausted by 10pm!
On a sad note, this morning, Derek has been very ill and stayed in bed...I just hope he has not got this flu thing thats going about...?
At the moment, Sirius is keeping him company, but Mum is due to arrive for lunch shortly which will result in barks-ville from Sirius and will wake Derek up! Goodness I hope not.......we have a meeting with our builders next week and I need Derek to be well!

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see you soon good people! x

...And we have just this very second booked the finest seats for next year!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am sooooooo excited!!!

Only a few weeks ago, and after hearing good reports about the show, I decided to get the WOTW on ebay on DVD and it absolutly blew my socks off!!! It was wonderfull, and if you have not seen it yet, please get the dvd as you will certainly not be dissapointed!! Almost all the original cast and musicians were performing, and it was wonderfull to see the now in his 70's Herbie Flowers (of Sky fame) doing his stuff brilliantly on the bass!! In fact all in all there are nearly 70 musicians on stage at any given time, and even though its live, the music is amazingly close to the original album version. There is even a 30 foot fighting machine, firing its heat ray at the audience (its a red laser!!) and ultimatly the man himself, Jeff Wayne is conducting!!
For the show next year there are some actor changes: for the Artillary man which will now be taken by Jason Donovan and a young lady from Atomic Kitten is to play Beth, the parsons wife! I dont know what happened to Julie Covington, but I do know the brilliant Phill Lynott sadly died in the 80's.
The tickets (probabally the best in the house!!) were very pricey at £70 each, but if you think how much it costs to stage this show, it does seem well worth the money!!!
Crikey........... I am already planning what to wear!!!!!!!!!!

We are off to Cornwall shortly for a short break before Christmas, and I am realy excited about it as, despite the fact I have done a huge ammount of traveling I have NEVER visited Cornwall before!!!
A thumnail of my cottage here....sorry its so small but I will take lots of piccies while I am there and post them here when we return!

Quite often we will have a winter break but this is a total departure form our usual lighthouse holiday in Sunderland...But its my love of Troika pottery (this is where it came from) that has lead us to decided on Cornwall this year. I am not sure if there is still a troika museum at Newylen, as there is not much info online. But I hope to find some info while we are there! Also we are having our home totally refurbished so all our furniture is in storage at the moment (starts monday) so its a great time to get away!! Well its about time as we have not had new carpets or even decroated since we moved in almost 10 years ago, so we are having it done all at once!
...and I get to visit the medieval home of KING ARTHUR at Tintagel!!!!

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