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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 15, 2011
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Well I finally caught up with recording on YouTube. Since I bought the new microphone I have been experimenting with recording some songs of my own, only the music, no vocals as yet. To be honest it has been a long time since I sang in public and since my transition I haven’t really tried singing in my new voice as it were so I am loathed to broadcast vocals unless I have practiced first. My first attempt at recording for YouTube wasn’t a music clip but a message to a friend of mine who lives over in New Jersey. As it has no personal information in the message I have allowed it to be viewed by anyone as I have done with the three (so far) music clips I have placed there. There are two links from this site to my YouTube channel. One is above under Zone 2 and the other is to the right under Minkyweasels Musings (the quicker route). If you have a mind to go see, the go see! LOL. Encouraging comments are always welcome! I would normally place videos on here but WordPress charge for the privilege, Google doesn’t. Many years ago I recorded some thirteen of my songs with a young lady but they were recorded to tape! I still have that tape and a player to play it. I also have a usb turntable I use to convert my vinyl records to didital storage on my computer which has an input socket for microphones or other input devices including tape machine outputs but I have not gotten round to re-record the tape yet. Perhaps one day I might just do that. For the time being I am continuing to experiment with recording straight from my guitar.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 10, 2011
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So I spent Wednesday afternoon/early evening down at my local pub. After visiting the place about two weeks ago after a long absence and promising that I would go more often I have returned there twice since. My workload is very low just now and I was feeling so bored sitting home alone I decided to do two things. One, was to go for a walk and two, was to go to the pub. I did both. The weather at home has been rather a wet and windy affair so walking too far was out of the question, especially as I was wearing (small) heels and wasn’t dressed for taking on the elements. Fortunately the streets afforded quite a bit of shelter from the wind until I walked westward but even then it wasn’t too bad. At least the rain held off until I was back indoors, that is inside the pub! On arrival I found but a few patrons inside so I grabbed the local newspaper and sat down with my drink on a lovely leather sofa near to a window (I need daylight or bright artificial lighting to read comfortably) so that I wasn’t straining to see the script. My eyesight is quite excellent and I don’t need glasses as an aid, just good lighting. After an hour I began to feel hungry so I looked at the menu. For a small establishment they have quite an extensive choice of meals and snacks. I chose a smoked salmon sandwich with a salad as I wasn’t hungry enough to eat a large meal. It was delicious and enough to satisfy me for a few hours. By the time I had finished eating many more folk started to arrive and all but a few (those I don’t know) greeted me. I don’t know about you but I love ‘people watching‘ and I was quite contented to just sit there across the room watching them come and go. Finally though some wanted a little more contact with me and came over for a chat. By early evening I was up and about chatting with people myself. I am a very gregarious and sociable person and I find chatting with people so easy. Of course I had to watch my alcohol intake as I can get carried away sometimes by overdoing things. It was getting late and I decided that I must return home so I said my farewells and off I went for the ten minute walk to my house. I got home just after eight-thirty and found I had mail and a parcel containing the new shoes I had ordered a few days ago. I tried the shoes and they are a perfect fit but I doubt I shall be walking to the pub in them as the heels are just over four inches! I shall take a cab if I wear them out.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 2, 2011
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And so it was that Shirley Anne got up late on Friday morning, a habit that is so unbecoming of her normally but lately seems to be the way to go. Anyways, I got up late, missed my breakfast, although I did manage to eat a small banana. I had received a call to do some work but it was nothing much and I was back home within the hour. I asked E if she would like to dine out and as usual for her she had to wash her hair first! She does tend to get greasy hair whereas mine is the opposite and takes days before the natural oils work their way down my tresses. I was in no hurry to eat so I sat and played my guitar whilst waiting for her to come downstairs. Off we went to a carvery about six or seven miles away, a place we often visit. I had a full bottle of red wine with my dinner, again something I do probably far too often! I can handle that much wine with no adverse effects and especially if I am eating. We drove back home after a couple of hours and sat around in the patio for a while. I have plans to work on the water-butt base and also the garage passageway roof but they can wait for a day. In fact I propose to do them both today unless something else turns up in the meantime. Today is supposed to be my sabbath day of rest but I have had so much free time lately it wouldn’t be right to just sit around and do nothing. The principle remains the same, don’t work 7/24/7 but take a break as you are supposed to do! I like to work but I also like to chill out, especially with a bottle of red wine!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 26, 2011
Yesterday I became a lady of leisure doing no work all day as is my usual behaviour on a Saturday, although occasionally I will work at home on this day. It is important to me to keep the sabbath day as a day unto the Lord always remembering that the sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath. I go as far as working at my profession if somebody asks me to do a job in an emergency situation. This fortunately has only happened a couple of times and all other requests are deferred until the following week. So all I did yesterday was watch television, go online or amuse myself on the computer, play my guitar and generally pottered about the house and garden. It wasn’t too warm in the morning but that didn’t stop E from messing about outside and later in the day she dug out all of the potatoes that had been cultivated in our raised cultivation bed between the two greenhouses. For such a relatively small area she recovered a large bucket full of potatoes. They look good enough to eat! LOL.
It got much warmer as the day wore on and by evening it was quite warm and sunny, not as warm as the Cote D’AZur but just as sunny. Today promises to be at least warm and perhaps it will turn out sunny too! I hope so because we are entertaining family, friends and neighbours by having a barbecue in our new patio. Today I shall be working by ensuring they all enjoy themselves! One of my friends is presently on the other side of the world nearing the end of her three-month tour of the far east including Australia, Thailand, Singapore and I’m not sure where else. I haven’t heard from her for some time so I hope she is alright. She enjoys herself when she is our guest and we both will miss her presence this time. I am not sure how the day will go but I am determined to enjoy it no matter how it goes.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 12, 2011
We call it the weekend but if we want to be pedantic it is really both the end of the week and the beginning of the next one. It all depends on the customs of your country. Sunday is now the traditional day of rest for Christians but the real sabbath day of rest for Christians is the same as that of Israel ( part of which are the Jews of today and in fact much of the western world: see http://www.ucg.org/booklets/US/josephsbirthright.asp and other literature) and that day is Saturday or rather Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. This means that Saturday would be regarded as the last day of the week, the rest day from the six working days. God didn’t actually rest in the sense that we mean a cessation from tiring work because of tiredness, it means He abstained from carrying out further work or simply ceased doing it because it was all done. I digress. However things were changed by the Emperor Constantine and Sunday became the rest day. No matter. The simple fact is that in many nations of the world there are work days and rest days. The working week in the western world is usually meant to be Monday through Friday with two days off, the weekend. My personal choice is Saturday as my sabbath rest and Sunday for doing sundry things. This Sunday E and I have invited family (such as are available) and friends for an afternoon of relaxation together with refreshments of food and drink. I hope this will mark the first of many more during the year, hopefully some of them outside in the sunshine!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 13, 2011
I got into bed rather late last night and subsequently arose very late too at around 11am. By the time I eventually got downstairs in was almost 1.45pm! The best part of the time was the soaking in the hot bath. I wasn’t feeling too well or rather I was feeling very tired with aches and pains probably caused by the work I’ve been doing at home recently. Anyhow although I was tired when I went to bed I still couldn’t drift off to sleep straight away so on went the bedroom television. I don’t know why I watch television in bed as I invariably fall asleep half-way through a program or movie. Well last night they were showing The Rocky Horror Show movie featuring Tim Curry and others like Meatloaf for instance. I have seen the film a few times now and was tempted once to go to a live performance on stage but never did. On reflection I think I should have. It is one of those shows which never seem to age and Tim Curry as a mad scientist, who happens to be a transvestite or maybe a transsexual, plays a wonderful role. Sometimes I think he was more convincing than the real thing!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 4, 2010
For the benefit of Mr Kite, there will be a show tonight……..and so it was. E and I have just returned from Liverpool. We journeyed down on the train and we found a nice place to eat, a Spanish tapas restaurant called La Tasca not far from the Royal Court Theatre where we afterward spent the evening watching the John Lennon story. A musical extravaganza following the rise to stardom of The Beatles and Johns solo career after the band split up. The players, all good musicians gave a wonderful performance and portrayed the story extremely well. The songs were simply great. E had won the tickets for the show through one of her competitions so it cost us far less than it would have otherwise done. For those who are interested and have the opportunity to see the show I would strongly recommend it. It has only a short time left to run so if you wish to see it then make arrangements as soon as you can. You will not be disappointed. Anyhow I must get off to bed now as I am working today, yes it is past midnight! Goodnight!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 1, 2010
Last Monday we were expecting some scaffolding to be erected so that access to our leaking roof could be made. E and I had to travel down to Hereford to board a flight on a hot-air balloon. That meant we needed to leave home before noon. The scaffolding firm made that an excuse not to come but they could easily have erected the amount we need to get the roof fixed. So today, this morning I hope, they will do it. I shall be working so I will leave the arrangements to E. She will love having to get up early! I don’t think so. Our youngest son came and stopped over for the weekend. We can always tell that he has visited us, the place is a mess….LOL. He had a party to go to on Saturday evening and he visits friends whenever he is down here. He has a two-hour session indulging in his new hobby, jiu-jitsu and he went to the gym/dojo while he was here. He hasn’t been doing it long but he has just earned his first ‘belt’, a white one. I jokingly told him that he’ll need that to hold his pants up! He seems serious about his training so I think he will progress toward the coveted black belt given time. This Wednesday evening E and I hope to visit a theatre in Liverpool to see the production of the John Lennon story. It promises to be a good show. I have a birthday coming up this month but I’ve no plans regarding that yet, if I bother. Who knows? Well it’s Monday morning and I have work to do………..
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 9, 2010
Some time ago E won a prize through one of her competition entries. She does many competitions and is always winning something even large items like a king-sized bed! Anyhow this prize was two theatre tickets for a performance at The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. We were supposed to be going there last night but we couldn’t get the seats we wanted, close to the stage because most of the seats had been taken. We had been offered seats high up in the balcony. Seats in the circle would probably have been nice but up there in the balcony is not so good. We decided not to go. Yesterday however E told me that she had won another prize……Two theatre tickets for another performance at The Royal Court Theatre. How much of a coincidence is that? This performance is a story about the life of John Lennon and it looks like it’s going to be a great show. We will be going there early in November. Later this month we hope to finally get that balloon flight after the weather thwarted our last two attempts! More on that later, if it happens! Now I don’t do competitions but I do the Lotto. Over the last month I have won a small amount at least once every week. When I first started doing the Lotto I won almost every week for eighteen months and then only very occasionally until last month. I have never won anything substantial in all my life but it seems E is better when it comes to winning things.
Incidentally today would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday.
Shirley Anne xxx
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 12, 2010
When the World Cup group and elimination rounds began to be televised I thought to myself that Holland, The Netherlands, The Dutch team had a very good chance of winning the trophy. Along the way I saw how the Spanish team played their game and began thinking that they too might be possible winners. There were some strong teams to overcome in the final rounds of course so nothing was set in concrete. I settled down to watch the final game last night and was thoroughly entertained by the football prowess shown by Spain. I was disgusted by the performance of the Dutch team however, not in their capabilities as a footballing team but in their constant fouling. They did not deserve a win and thankfully at the end of the day they were outclassed by a much better team. Congratulations to the Spanish team on their successful achievement!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 11, 2010
Have you ever had something that you needed to go right but it went wrong and you tried everything possible to sort it out? A few years ago now I bought a 350GB external hard drive for my laptop because the one I had, an 80GB one, was too small for the job. I was saving music files and soon found the 80GB drive filled. However when I bought the new drive, which incidentally is a plug-and-play device, like the smaller one, it wouldn’t work. Try as I may Windows would not recognise it’s presence. I returned it to the store and they tested it on their machine and it worked! I returned home and reluctantly stored it away until I had more time to try to sort out the problem with my Windows software. Since then I have had another couple of attempts to solve the problem, all to no avail, until today that is. I am still not sure why Windows wouldn’t recognise the device last time but it does now. I have been able to transfer all the music files from my computer to the larger drive and thus free up the space on my C drive. The smaller 80GB drive still has all the music on it, just! However I am going to free that drive and use it for something else. Now I have the new-found space I can begin recording all my vinyl albums to digital format using the usb turntable through the computer. This will take some time though but at least I can do it all at last. I did a trial run last year when I purchased the usb turntable and recorded one of my albums. I can’t wait to record them all. It will be much easier to listen to any track I fancy without having to search through the vinyls and play each disc through a normal player, although at the moment I have yet to set up the hardware to enable my computer to simply be plugged into the set-up. I listen to the radio fairly often but it will be nice to be able to select what I want to listen to for a change.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 12, 2010
Well the time has arrived to show what they can do. There has been much talk and hype up to this moment but as they say, ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating’. England has a lot to do, a lot to aim for and something to prove. Ah but so do all the other teams in the competition! I like watching football but I am not a fanatical supporter of any team, though my heart lies with Liverpool, simply because I was born there. There is nothing wrong with supporting your favourite team of course but some take their support to crazy heights. I heard this morning of one guy laying a grass lawn in his lounge at home! He even marked out the grass like a football pitch. I think that sort of behaviour is a little over the top personally speaking. There will be many supporters enjoying the game in their own way but I am guessing at the end of the tournament there will be many who end up very disappointed. We’ll see. Whilst I was born in England and live here I am not an England supporter. Perhaps you may think this is the wrong attitude but it won’t matter one iota to the England Squad what I think. At the end of the day it is they who have to prove themselves. I do wish them the best though.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on April 18, 2010
This post has been automatically scheduled to be posted so I don’t have to get out of bed to write it! I did it last night. Today I am having a lie in bed. I deserve it. I worked for it and I’m determined to get it! That’s the plan anyhow. Problem is if I get up too late I’ll miss breakfast and as we are having an afternoon buffet meal I don’t want to be eating late in the morning. Maybe I’ll get up, make breakfast and have it in bed or I’ll get someone else to do it for me; fat chance! Anyways I’m not working out on the treadmill this morning, I did that yesterday. I often promise myself a lie in bed but never seem to get many of them. My problem is that I wake up after four or five hours and unless I am particularly tired I will find it hard to sleep any longer. I will get up, have a bath, dress and go downstairs. If I’m early I’ll eat breakfast otherwise I will give it a miss. This afternoon it will be lots of food and drink, chatting and games with our guests. Tomorrow it’s back to reality and work! Hope your Sunday is a nice one too.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 22, 2010
What is it with soap operas? They are addictive to many people who watch them. My ex. watches East Enders, The Bill, Holby City and Neighbours and woe-betide anyone who interrupts her sessions at the box! These programs are akin to the virtual worlds you can lose yourself in on your computer. They are a form of escapism I think, a fantasy world we can escape to from the real one in which we live. To me that speaks volumes. Why would anyone want to escape from their own lives? You may say there are many potential reasons but I say it is a sign of weakness. We should be able to face life’s problems because after all they won’t go away! I admit to watching the occasional ‘soap’ but mainly because it is already being watched by E. Whereas I am not a fan and couldn’t care less if I miss the next episode, she on the other hand is an avid viewer! I always maintain that people who watch too much television or play too much on the computer need to get a life! What can I say?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 7, 2010
I don’t know about you but I like watching sport on television, specifically football (soccer for my US readers) and rugby football. I like watching other sports too but not as much as these two. Yesterday marked the beginning of the Six Nations Cup 2010, member countries are England, Scotland, Irish Republic, Wales, Italy and France. It is a Rugby Union event and is great to watch. Ruby League is slightly different from Rugby Union in that there are differences in amounts of players participating and differences in the game’s rules but essentially the basic game remains the same. I like watching football and as long as the game is dynamic it is enjoyable. Football strategies on the pitch vary considerably and it affects the style of play. Some games are somewhat boring but mostly they are enjoyable to watch. I prefer watching dynamic sports than those which are slow-moving. That’s probably why I hate golf!
Shirley Anne
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