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In her case, I can't help thinking that the best songs would be those with no lyrics and no music. Or sung in the privacy of her own home. In a soundproof room.

We were invited to a party, not a musical soiree. Perhaps she thought she'd raise the tone; treat us to some professional music, that would make us country peasants pathetically grateful.

Perhaps someone will take her aside and quietly tell her she's fifty years too old for party pieces. While they're at it, they can tell her husband that telling suggestive jokes to strange women is not appropriate behaviour: even less so when the strange woman is about a third of the husband's age. Ugh.

Reply #4341. Jan 01 12, 8:24 PM

Tis the Season, Lesley...... :D

I remember fabulous New Year's Eve parties with family friends - we all grew up together and 'the kids' called all the adults uncle or auntie.

Auntie Ruth could certainly sing - 'Red Sails in the Sunset' and 'I'm in Love with Vienna' - by which time some of us were hoping she may visit there for the following year....*heheheh*

One of our parties this year had a minor meltdown - the new year's eve one, of course.
BIL-1 hosted the party and had obviously started celebrating Way before we arrived, judging by his little speech regarding how appropriate the DVDs the kids were watching and if they weren't appropriate it wasn't his !@#$%^ problem - although it Was his house and so was One Child.

One meltdown from four parties is quite reasonable I think. And there was no piano or singing - in or out of the bathroom! lol

Reply #4342. Jan 01 12, 8:43 PM

Ooh I remember Red Sails in the Sunset - I too had an aunt who enjoyed singing it, as well as Shrimp Boats; Walking my Baby Back Home; and Hey There! Shrimp boats is a-comin'? they don't write them like that any more!

Mine wasn't a meltdown, just a musician who should have stuck to painting, with a husband who annoyed almost everyone there. Yours, a BIL inebriated to the point of insensibility, is a proper meltdown. I'm impressed and not at all envious. Perhaps next year he can celebrate on a desert island, along with any singing aunts you decide to send with him.

Reply #4343. Jan 01 12, 10:18 PM

I see it as not the writing but the translation Lesley.... :P
Perhaps the husband has to breakout at parties because he can't get a word in edgeways at home?
However, a glass of iced water can cure a million annoyances - when administered to the back of an offending neck!

BIL-1 was back to his usual chirpy self today but sadly this will probably be the beginning of badder 'things'. He's not a Happy Boy, and it's very much his own fault.

Just have to love starting a new year. *dramatic rolling of eyes*

Reply #4344. Jan 02 12, 5:18 AM

C30

Happy New Year Lesley and to all the people who contribute to your always interesting Blog!

However...........IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT Lesley! "What is"?, she asks puzzled.
The fact I have "Shrimp boats is-a-coming"......." going round and round in my head! Lol

Today is the last day of "festive Season" and we return tomorrow to "normal". Happy, happy, HAPPY!
No prizes for the first person to spot Valentines Cards in the shops!

Reply #4345. Jan 02 12, 5:39 AM

Good theory, MarchHare, but she was very quiet till she decided to grace us with a performance. I wonder if she chooses to thump and groan because she's the one who can't get a word in? Glass of iced water sounds useful. I would like to progress to an ice-cold shower.

I hope BIL gets his head together and finds his Nice Streak (again).

Thank you, Ray. Now the Season of Jollity is over, it'll be nice if they find time to start contributing again.

Sorry about the song. Perhaps you'll be able to sleep it off. If it helps, imagine my aunt trying to teach me to sing "Hey There"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FpLgiuv9mU (Doris Day)
- probably before I'd reached double figures - and laughing because I couldn't. Cruel streak in my family!

Alternative version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=kSASnjrWxmY
(Rosemary Clooney, with studio audience and heavenly chorus, but no sobbing.)

Try singing along with either of them, and I promise, the shrimps will be gone in no time.

Are you a betting man? Do you think the shiny red foil-wrapped chocolate hearts will be in the shops before or after the shiny foil-wrapped Easter eggs?

Reply #4346. Jan 02 12, 7:24 AM

Jazmee27

Hard to say-guess it depends where you ar

I feel bad for anyone who works at Boscov's, any other department store, or come to think of it any other store

Reply #4347. Jan 02 12, 9:05 AM

bloodandsand

I saw packs of creme eggs in Tesco last week.

Reply #4348. Jan 02 12, 3:07 PM

I had a school holiday job in Woolworths, I was 17, it was the fortnight before Christmas, and it was the most exhausting thing I have ever done. Never again.

Easter choccies before it's even new year? Isn't that just the teeniest bit depressing?

Reply #4349. Jan 02 12, 6:14 PM

My husband and I went shopping last week (can't remember exactly when but it was probably around 27th or 28th January) and I jokingly said to him "Want to bet the supermarket has the hot cross buns out already?" In the past, I've spotted them as early as January 6. Didn't see any hotcross buns but the Easter eggs were already out. Somehow it's difficult to get into the Easter mood when it's about 40 C (104 F) degrees outside.

Reply #4350. Jan 02 12, 7:18 PM

HNY, MG!

I need to shop soon, and I bet you anything there'll be hot cross buns *and* Easter eggs!

One seasonal treat I'm not sorry to see the back of is the Christmas music. It was lovely to go out last week and have my little brain to myself. Most shoppers don't want it, most shop staff can't stand it. The only people who seem to want it are the ivory tower management who don't have to listen to it. Off hobbyhorse now - till next year!

Reply #4351. Jan 02 12, 8:26 PM

Happy New Year to you too Lesley, and to all the regular readers.

"One seasonal treat I'm not sorry to see the back of is the Christmas music"

We recently had a 2-week holiday in Malaysia at the beginning of December. One of the hotels we stayed in had piped Christmas music throughout the hotel. Shortly after we arrived, it got stuck on "Frosty the Snowman" and that song played over and over again for about a day and a half until Maynooth went to the hotel reception and asked them to do something about it. It was aural torture. If we never hear "Frosty the Snowman" again, it'll be too soon.

Reply #4352. Jan 02 12, 9:41 PM

That's how I feel about "Silver Bells," which I'd never heard of till I came to FT, and last year I couldn't get away from it. Solution: avoid town centre during December.

I'm surprised that they needed to be asked to take the song off.

I hope the holiday was good, once the aural torture had stopped!

Reply #4353. Jan 02 12, 10:07 PM

"I'm surprised that they needed to be asked to take the song off."

You'd think so, wouldn't you? Maynooth said that when he spoke to the girl at the reception desk, she smiled a Mona Lisa type smile. Perhaps they were laying bets on how long it would take someone to complain.

"I hope the holiday was good, once the aural torture had stopped!"

Yes, it was great! We had a wonderful time. The staff at the resort were so warm and friendly, it was like visiting family. Similarly, we found the taxi drivers very friendly and helpful in showing us around.

My only complaint would be the standard of hygiene in the public toilets, restaurants, shopping centres etc. Best piece of travel advice - make sure you carry a roll of toilet paper with you at all times, as well as some of that gel-based hand sanitiser.

Reply #4354. Jan 03 12, 9:03 PM

Sounds like a lovely holiday Mother Goose. :)

Wet Ones are our travel standard for all matter of evils and smaller than a roll of loo paper.....

Reply #4355. Jan 03 12, 10:30 PM

Easter Eggs have arrived....... *sigh*

Reply #4356. Jan 05 12, 4:54 AM

Mommakat

I am sorry to be a party pooper, but as someone who has extreme hearing difficulties, I would love to enjoy music again - any music. One thing I did get annoyed with over Christmas was the tendency of the TV channels to cut short Caroles sung by school choirs. I know a lot of people look forward to this and the children do work so hard to have the opportunity to appear on TV and after a big announcement we are lucky to see and hear ten seconds. I personally could not hear it properly but then I am only one of the hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned in.

Reply #4357. Jan 05 12, 5:16 AM

Professer

Whilst away i went to the shop to get milk on 27th December and low and behold just inside the Door shelves of Easter eggs, so will we see selection boxes in store after easter from now on?

Reply #4358. Jan 05 12, 5:43 AM

"One thing I did get annoyed with over Christmas was the tendency of the TV channels to cut short Caroles sung by school choirs. I know a lot of people look forward to this and the children do work so hard to have the opportunity to appear on TV and after a big announcement we are lucky to see and hear ten seconds."

I noticed that too and felt the same way. I really love watching/listening to the children sing and definitely felt "robbed" this year.

Reply #4359. Jan 05 12, 5:34 PM