This World, This Life

  So that's Christmas out of the way.  Considering in the run up I had absolutely no interest in it this year, it was pretty good and I enjoyed it.  The weather helped - proper Christmas weather, very cold, a decent bit of snow, but lots of sunshine and blue sky so that walking the dog was a pleasure rather than a chore.  I can remember the odd Christmas like it when I was a kid - I think, but I could be hallucinating - and certainly the first few I celebrated here in Poland were like this.  Climate change has made a nonsense of that for the last few years, and we've walked to Mass or driven to relatives in warmer, wet and windy weather instead. The new normal, I guess, with this year the exception. Anyway, it was quiet and we spent it at home.  No visitors this year, just we four, plus Lulu the dog and Jazzy the cat, and it was cool.  We ate well, made the effort to dress formally (that is, for me, suit and white shirt and tie), watched the mandatory ...

  "The way we consume music...." Even the phrase gets up my nose!  American techie buzzwords all of 'em.  What's wrong with "buy music", or "listen to music", or better yet "enjoy music", for Gawd's sake? Let me restart this piece...... ------------------------------------------------------------- Someone forwarded me a meme the other day on Facebook (yes, I KNOW I'm supposed to have dumped the platform, but I'm still finding uses for it - like prompting internet rants of my own....) that kicked my brain into reverse gear.  It was a simple picture of racks of vinyl LPs in a record shop c.1973 I should think, with a "Share if you know what this is" caption.  And, hell, yeah - I know what that is and I go all misty eyed at the memories it conjures up. I didn't say that, of course, just gave it a Like and moved on. I love my music, as I've written many times in my various blogging activities, have done since I w...