But this confusion is over Facebook sites. Many many years ago I set up my own site and put on it a variety of bits and pieces including articles I wrote for the local press.
Than when I had the idea of a daily blog I set up a separate site which will be the one you are reading now. This in effect made the original site redundant although it still pops up from time to time.
As you will all be aware, my blog site has almost 700 followers who I refer to affectionately as bloggettes. My original site is still there, however, and for sometime I've been at a loss to work out how to use it. After all I put my thoughts about life and the universe on this site. So I'm still thinking about how to use the original.
Quite often Facebook memories pop up on my feed and I often copy these across to my original site as I find that by simply pressing the "share" button they find their way there. And when I do copy to that site I seem to get immediate responses. So maybe I should be using it for some other purpose. Anybody got any ideas?
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Over the years I have written plenty of pieces about the dangers in trying to negotiate Thickthorn roundabout which is a couple of miles from where we live.
Going in the Norwich direction causes little anguish as it's a pretty straightforward negotiation but coming the other way can be a nightmare due to what we have always claimed to be wrong lane markings and bad driving where people just ignore them.
I'm sure if you don't know this roundabout but live in the UK you will have a similar one near to you. On Saturday evening the traffic lights seemed to be stuck for our section from Norwich. I was at the head of the queue and was just considering going through them on red when they did change after some minutes. Why in the evenings they can't be set for shorter periods or shut down I don't know. We sat there on Saturday with a completely clear roundabout. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me and can't be good for the environment. I could write to Highways England but don't feel like wasting my time yet again with them.
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Wasn't it warm on Saturday? Sat at the football with just a light coat on and then the cinema was overheated and we got rather too hot for comfort. It would be better if cinemas and shops could have better temperature control to keep them at a constant mark.
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I often use phrases without knowing how they have come about. So I thought I should share some of them with an explanation.
One of those I use is "if they believe that they must be living in cloud cuckoo land." But where or what exactly is cloud cuckoo land and where did the phrase come from?
Cloud cuckoo land is a state of absurdly, over-optimistic fantasy or an unrealistically idealistic state of mind where everything appears to be perfect. Someone who is said to "live in cloud cuckoo land" is a person who thinks that things that are completely impossible might happen, rather than understanding how things really are. It also hints that the person referred to is naive, unaware of realities or deranged in holding such an optimistic belief.
Cockaigne, the land of plenty in medieval myth, can be considered the predecessor to the modern day cloud cuckoo land. It was an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures were always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life did not exist.
Tomorrow another phrase I keep using " we are all going to hell in a handcart."
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Turned on local radio recently (yes there still is some if you search hard enough) and there was an advert for new properties in Hemsby on the Norfolk coast. Found that slightly ironic as so many properties in that place have fallen over the cliffs with apparently very little positive being done to arrest this.
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And finally here we go. This is the point non music fans can stop reading but for those still with me here are my favourite tunes of all time in some kind of order. Enjoy or ignore - it's up to you.
Mockingbird - Barclay James Harvest
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
Without You - Nilsson
Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort
Summer The First Time - Bobby Goldsboro
There Only Was One Choice - Harry Chapin
Meet Me on the Corner - Lindisfarne
American Pie - Don McLean
There But For Fortune - Phil Ochs
Leader of the Band - Dan Fogelberg
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Galadriel - Barclay James Harvest
Meant For You - Beach Boys
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
The Weaver's Answer - Family
Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Distant Summers - Chris Rea
What the World Needs Now - Tom Clay
Disney Girls - Beach Boys
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Armstrong - John Stewart
She Said - Barclay James Harvest
Alone Again Or - Love
Better Place to Be - Harry Chapin
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
If You Saw Through My Eyes - Ian Matthews
The Greatest Love of All - George Benson
Coldest Days of My Life - Chi-Lites
Mandolin Wind - Rod Stewart
Raincoat and a Rose - Chris Rea
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
Say It Isn't True - Jackson Browne
Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Same Old Langs Syne - Dan Fogelberg
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
Hide in Your Shell - Supertramp
The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
Help- Beatles
My Father's Shoes - Level 42
Fools Overture - Supertramp
Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore
Talk to me of Mendicino - Linda Ronstadt
Waking Up Alone - Paul Williams
Horse With No Name - America
Theme From Twin Peaks - Angelo Badalamenti
Changes - David Bowie
The Night I Heard Caruso Sing - Everything But the Girl
Ventura Highway - America
The Wonder of You - Elvis Presley
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You - Van Morrison
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Power and Glory - Phil Ochs
Slides - Richard Harris
Clang of the Yankee Reaper - Van Dyke Parks
Abraham, Martin and John - Marvin Gaye
At 17 - Janis Ian
First Episode at Hienton - Elton John
Eloise - Barry Ryan
Jackie - Scott Walker
I Need You - America
I'll Be Seeing You - Judy Collins
Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel
Streets of London - Ralph McTell
Alright Now - Free
Starless - King Crimson
The Impossible Dream - Matt Monro
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are - Meatloaf
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Dragonfly - Fleetwood Mac
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Last Song - Edward Bear
Society's Child - Janis Ian
Question 67/68 - Chicago
7 O'Clock News/Silent Night - Simon and Garfunkel
The Poet/After The Day - Barclay James Harvest
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Vincent - Don McLean
Penny Lane - Beatles
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Your Song - Elton John
Kites - Simon Dupree and the Big Sound
Where Are We Now? - David Bowie
Medicine Man (Live version) - Barclay James Harvest
Skeleton and the Roundabout - Idle Race
Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry and the Pacemakers
Be - Neil Diamond
Singing Lessons - Judy Collins
You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers
Reflections of My Life - Marmalade
American Tune - Paul Simon
Question - Moody Blues
New York City - Tommy Leonetti
Bolinas - John Stewart
Chestnut Mare - The Byrds
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Sandy Denny
Child in Time - Deep Purple
The Dean and I - 10CC
Just Take A Pebble - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
The Moon's A Harsh Mistress - Judy Collins
Absolute Beginners - David Bowie
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
The Blizzard - Judy Collins
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
Melinda More or Less - Curved Air
American Trilogy - Elvis Presley
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Where are you now my Son? - Joan Baez
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
The Way We Were - Gladys Night and the Pips
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Kid - The Pretenders
Backstage - Gene Pitney
Thank You For The Music - Abba
24 hours from Tulsa - Gene Pitney
I Heard It on TV - John Fogerty
Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez
You're A Lady - Peter Skellern
Music - John Miles
Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
Ameureuse - Kiki Dee
Miss Serajevo - Passengers
Wild is the Wind - David Bowie
No I Will Never Forget - Charles Aznavour
Epitaph - King Crimson
Leningrad - Billy Joel
July Morning - Uriah Heep
Ripples - Genesis
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles