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8/9/2013

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Very busy week ahead, so it was down to Sussex again yesterday to take Silva back to her sausagey mates for a few days. I felt quite tired when we got there and had a quick nap but knew I had to get back on the road quite quickly in order to get back to Oxford at a reasonable time, so once I was back in the car I sifted through the box of randomly selected CDs I'd thrown in the back and found - wait for it - The Greatest Hits of Petula Clark... I'd filched it from my mum's CD collection a few years ago when 'Colour My World' was being used in a TV ad and I liked the snatch of it played on that commercial enough to want to hear the whole thing. Anyway, all I can say is, thank God for Pet - I put it into the CD player and sang along full-voiced to at least six memorable tunes - 'Downtown', 'Don't Sleep in the Subway', 'The Other Man's Grass', 'This is My Song', 'Call Me', and of course, 'Colour My World' - and that got me to the M23, by which time I felt refreshed and OK for the rest of the drive. There are a lot of very dated tunes on that CD too, admittedly, but those six at least are real feel-good songs and sooooo singable along to. In fact, I realised that Pet and I have about the same range, and then got to fantasizing about doing a Petula Clark tribute act. Not sure what I'd call myself yet though. Maybe 'Petulant'? That's more a description of me, I hasten to add...

Off to London Songwriters Group today - haven't been for a while and looking forward to reconnecting with friends there. I have a new song I'm wanting to try out too, and this group is a great place to get honest and valuable feedback about new material.

'Life is never what it seems, We're always searching in our dreams, To find that little castle in the air...' That's been going round in my head ever since yesterday afternoon... Name the song if you can!
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