Morning all.



Firstly - gotta say - to Simon and the Team, Teddy T was wonderful last night. Well done. And cleared up his own mess afterwards - clearly very well brought up by Ma and Pa Thompson. Now then - get them on (one at a time maybe, but worth it)!!



So



PAPERBACK WRITER - The Beatles



EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOKS - Elvis Costello.



Back later.

Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes



Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and fellow blogpoppets. Think I'm going to like this theme.



Can only agree with the Teddy Thompson sentiments. What a Nice Young Man!



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BOTH SIDES NOW - Joni Mitchell - inspired by Henderson the Rain King by Saulo Bellow and The heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad!!



CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES - The Cure (from the book of the same name)



ROMEO & JULIET - Dire Straits



THE SENSUAL WORLD - Kate Bush ("Stepping out of the page, into the sensual world")



TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES - Cream



WHITE RABBIT - Jefferson Airplane



A TASTE OF HONEY - The Beatles



I AM THE WALRUS - The Beatles



BOOKS ARE BURNING - XTC



THE BOOK I READ - Talking Heads



Enough already!!

This isn't as easy as I thought



Land of a Thousand Words - Scissor Sisters



Where is everyone?



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My Book - The Beautiful South



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Is it just thee & me, BandB?

I think so Mo! I discovered that while my F5 button and all sorts of refreshie activities kept giving me yesterday's blog, the BBC RAdio 2 page lists today's blog as up and running, so clicked there and hey presto! I suspect everyone else is still on yesterday!!. So before any one else gets in with it, in honour of the Booker Prize, I'll add...



GREEN ONIONS - Booker TG and the MGs

IT'S ONLY WORDS - The Bee Gees

OK, off to do some work now ;-). Back later to see all the suggestions that make me go "why didn't I think of that"



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Well, whatever happened there? Couldn't find you at all. Another project for Ian S. Host???







Morning Simon, team, NNYM and erudite bloggers,



THE STORY OF THE BLUES – THE MIGHTY WAH



EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK – ELVIS COSTELLO



PICTURE BOOK – THE KINKS

Good Morning again.



We've had this theme before - more than once I think

Billie - shall we have Wordy Rapping Hood again?



And how about all those Gypsies Tramps and Thieves who nick all the books and use them to prop up cars that are missing a wheel?

#12 John ! Yes Let's!

Both!

Morning all again



I couldn't find you! Are we having blog problems again? : (

Morning Simon, team and fellow Blogpoppets,



I have already tweeted my suggestions, so apologoes for any duplications;



WUTHERING HEIGHTS (of course!) by KATE BUSH



EVERYDAY I WRITE THE BOOK by ELVIS COSTELLO



EMMA by HOT CHOCOLATE ~ a nod to Jane Austen there



Have a wonderful day all, and I hope that the Wanderer returns- probably with a quarter of sherbet lemons!

It is my GD's birthday today, 19! But there again, I was a child bride you know! ;-)



Mcw x

NEVERENDING STORY - Limahl

Good morning everyone.



Curiously, as a bookseller, I can't think of any songs I like on the theme. Perhaps some of the more inventive bloggers will make me look shame-faced once again :-)

#10 I love that Wah song John, hope it gets played. I have asked for it unsuccessfully, in the past on ARF.

There you all are! I was refreshing and only getting yesterday's blog. Many thanks BandB for pointing me in the right direction.



Morning



Now that I have found you, got no inspiration for the theme of the day. Shall go away again and have a think.



Laters



A.

1984 - David Bowie



ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS - David Bowie

Mrs B&B is a teacher, and has gone into school today, in honour of world book day, dressed as a dwarf. Lots of authors are dwarfs I think?

Alright,



Had a think. How's about:-



Chocolat(e) - Snow Patrol



Also a film with the lovely Juliette Binoche and yummy Johnny Depp



Laters



A.

Dear Simon & Team - would it be possible to address something?



I don't know how the posting of the blog works. I assume that Simon writes it at a time convenient to him and that it is the responsibility of an individual to "publish" it.



Would it be possible for that individual to do that at a specific time each day? Any time, really, but at the same time so that we would all know when to expect it?



It is very frustrating to be constantly checking for the new blog for up to 2 hours each day when it can appear anytime between 8 and 10.



Trying to make the blogging experience more enjoyable for everyone.



Love



BP

Ahem...



I STARTED SOMETHING I COULDN'T FINISH - The Smiths.

#25 BandB, speaking about a particular book?

This is a really tough theme.



#19 MTF = Yes, it's a great song, as good today as it was TWENTY-SEVEN years ago - Yikes! Whatever happened to them? (Wah, I mean, not the 27 years)



Scraping about for any good suggestions..



COVER ME - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Good Morning Simon & the Drive Team





PAPERBACK WRITER – BEATLES



WUTHERING HEIGHTS – KATE BUSH



WORLD OF OUR OWN – THE SEEKERS

THE STORY OF THE BLUES – WAH!



STORY OF A HEART – BENNY ANDERSSON BAND



READ MY MIND – THE KILLERS

CASINO ROYALE by HERB ALPERT (The first James Bond novel)

NEW BIOGRAPHY - VAN MORRISON

#24 - Billie - see my note at number 7. I kept refreshing and refreshing, and kept getting yesterday's blog, and typed in the address bar several times and likewise, but went to the Radio 2 homepage and started from there and got today's! Inconsistent eh?



#18 - Harry... you're a bookseller? Are you able to divulge where (I know you;re in Cockermouth, but the shop isn't necessarily)?

Morning All,



My suggestion today is



'Paperback Writer' The Beatles



Hope it is a good day for everybody

#26 Alice - probably Wuthering Heights... started it a thousand times ("if I've told you not to exaggerate once, I've told you a thousand times...") and never finished it. Currently reading the Mayor of Casterbridge though....fantastic!

Determined to find something I searched on youtube and this is really quite lovely:



LIBRARIAN by MY MORNING JACKET



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Es1flO_2M



Has anyone else ever heard of this band?

WRITTEN IN THE STARS - WESTLIFE



THESE WORDS - NATASHA BEDINGFIELD



THANK YOU FOR THE DAYS - KINKS/KIRSTY MACCOLL

POETRY IN MOTION - JOHNNY TILLOTSON

#32 B&B - I have a small shop selling secondhand books in Cockermouth.

Ha - hello again



I shall now scroll back and read what everyone else has chosen.



Just to clarify, dear blog chumsters, if I arrive late - I usually post my ideas before I read others - and the process usually throws up some interesting matches.





:^)

#38 - Fantastic - I'll bring you some stock!!

#40 - I'm rarely troubled by customers which is why I have so much time to dwell here LOL

Morning all!!!



Time for a bit of Bazza:



I Write The Words - Barry Manilow

Another:



Whistle down the wind - Nick Heywood (author Mary Hayley Bell)





A.

Never Ending Story - Limahl

#34 B&B - So you're reading The Mayor of Casterbridge? Beware, it can make a grown man cry!

Right then, how's about





The Writer - Ellie Goulding





Laters



A.

Alex! No wonder you are banned from t'internet if you are going to come up with chees like that ;-)



Happy birthday blogmoggies x

Here's the missing "e" from #47

Here are some songs that were inspired by books:





RAMBLE ON - LED ZEPPELIN



BRAVE NEW WORLD - IRON MAIDEN



1984 - DAVID BOWIE

#42





WAHAY and Yay for Bazza!







:^D

Morning All



I found today's theme harder than I thought it was going to be. I've tweeted:



NEVERENDING STORY by Limahl



GONNA WRITE A CLASSIC by Adrian Gurvitz



Haven't had time to read back yet, but I expect I'm going to be asking to share...



Deebee X

Morning all



Been hitting "F5" for hours and then found the blog by default - PETA - what's going on!?!?!



Anyhoooooo ....



HURRY UP HARRY (POTTER) - SHAM 69



LIKE CLOCKWORK (ORANGE) - THE BOOMTOWN RATS



1984 - THE EURYTHMICS



That'll do for now.



Deevs

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PERFECT - EDDI READER



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#45



Harry and B&B



Mayor Casterbridge? That's nothing.



Try Jude the Obscure if you want to hurl yourself into a pit of depression ..

#41 / #45 - Harry - that made me laugh cos I am in book trade too! As you know though, its the customers who spoil for the rest of us really (and the books don't help either!). As for the MoC, I did an English degree back in the mists of time, and have always loved Hardy, but haven't read this since I was eighteen, so decided it was time to re-acquaint. It..... is...... (long pauses for effect!).......wonderful. I'm only up to the bit where Henchard read's his wife's letter after she dies (which I'd forgotten about, but saw coming a few pages earlier), and I know now that from this moment on it is all going to go horribly, horribly wrong. I am sure you know it, but for fun, go and find monty Python's Thomas HArdy Novel Writing sketch on You Tube (which I did a few weeks back).... so funny!

#4 Mo, that is my favouritist Scissor Sisters song! I was listening to it during my dog walk this morning. Can I second it with knobs on!!



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#51





see my post #39



:^)

#54 - KatyMac aaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh Katy - don't make me!!! I know. I know. And as for Tess............ (Hardy is like the girlfriend from the past - you know you shouldn't see her, but you know it'll be great!)

#56 should that be 'favouritest'? Dunno...

#57 Absolutely KatyMaty - ditto!

Don't think this is really the type of thing being honoured on World Book Day, but a nice oldie anyway



YOU’RE MORE THAN A NUMBER IN MY LITTLE RED BOOK – THE DRIFTERS

#35 Harry. Thanks for thr tip. Nope, never heard of them before, but they are now the very enjoyable soundtrack to my morning on Spotalific, other music providers also available, blah blah blah.

thr = the (at least, where I come from)

KatyMatyMac ..... The Great Bazmondo of Manilow LAnd is going to be on Breakfast with the wonderful CLP next Friday ....... dare I bunk off work and go stalk the great man at the BBC?!?!



;-)



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Shall we have some cupcakes to celebrate our very own MadChickster's Chicklette who is 19 today?

Do we need an excuse? I think not.

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#54 & #55 I think Hardy has a way of describing women like no other author; most of his novels leave me falling madly in love with the heroine. As for Casterbridge, when Henchard mispells "flours" in his letter to his 'daughter' ........ I come all-over Smokey Robinson! LOL

And of course Happy Birthday GD of MCW!



#56 Of course I'll share Deebee.



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*nearly chokes on her cupcake after reading DurannieDeevs's Bazza goss!*#64

Interesting juxtaposition ..



simul-blogging about Thomas Hardy heroines AND Barry Manilow



:^#

#66



Hardy heroines are divine creatures; willful yet pliant, gloriously independent yet meekly docile, fearless and beautiful, charismatic, magnetic, etc etc.



His heroes are rubbish.



Well apart from Gabriel Swoon but that's probably more down to Alan Bates.

Good Morning Each! Just a quick pop in and out from me, as I am still really pulled out with it all, and still to busy to blog. And I am still upset at that, Just wanted to grab a mo to suggest...



'It's Oh So Quiet' by Bjork



'Hush' by Deep Purple.



Catch y'all soon...

This isn't quite as easy as I thought but here are some book inspired tracks:



Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones

1984 - David Bowie

Resistance - Muse



And there's always Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel

Hi and Bye Paul. Good to see you.



:^D

#66 - shucks, yes, you're quite right. Tess too. Sob. And.... Return of the Native....what's her name?...Eustacia Vye? Ouch. I knew a girl at college who christened her baby "Pebbles Eustacia" - the first after the Flintstones, the second after Hardy (and this was back in the seventies, not nowadays when everyone has a stupid name!!). Love Thomas Hardy!

Now then...



#69/70 - I can link the two, cos at the time I was last reading Mayor of Casterbridge I used to share a house with a girl who was a model, who got a regular job every so often going to Heathrow to be the girl seen on Bazza's arm when he came through Arrivals! Her other regular gig was draped over car bonnets at the Motor Show.... times change eh?



As for Hardy's heros...... what about Diggory Venn, the most mysterious, dependable, bright red figure of them all?

Good morning Everyone and, of course, Simon, The Team and the NNYM,



Well this has proved a very tricky theme today and I have come up with absolutely no suggestions, despite wracking my brain for the last hour or so.



Just wanted to join the book discussion - I love Thomas Hardy too and as it's been a wee while since I last read MoC or TotDs, I think a re-read is essential - thank you B&B and HtS for reminding me of the enjoyment to be found between the covers of a TH novel. :)



Katy, thank you, just had a nibble on a cupcake - scrumalicious.



Many happy returns to the gawjus MCW's GD.



Well I'm off back to the grindstone.



Laters sweet pataters :) x



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LOL KatyMatyMac. I've taken the liberty of tweeting the Great CLP Himself to enquire as to whether he needs someone to pop down to London to make the (green) tea on Bazzmondo Day!



Could It Be Magic .....



;-)



Deevs

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#74





I live in 'Melchester' in Hardy's Wessex



:^)

#78



Hardy's Wessex



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wessex.png

#78 - Is that Salisbury? My brother in law did a Masters thesis on Hardy's Minor Rustics, and we all used to go looking for the places in the novels... beautiful writer, not read enough nowadays. We could do with a major Sunday night dramatisation, but they are all so gloomy and despondent that ITV wouldn't be able to sell ads for Persil in the breaks and the BBC wouldn't be able to find a role for Tess Daly, so - unlikely! Mind you - Tess of the D'Alyfields?

#80 Wasn't Under the Greenwood Tree dramatised quite recently? Ahhhh, Fancy Day ..........

#75



Baxter&B - how could I disregard Diggory!?

I really must read Return of the Native again.



What an excellent Hardy/Bazza link.

:^)



I, too, have a little tale to tell:



A folk singer friend from days of yore was, for a period of time, girlfriend to one of my gang of friends in Kent in the 70s. His father was a Royal Academy artist by the name of John Stanton Ward. She modelled for his cover illustration for a new edition of Return Of The Native. Her real claim to fame, however, was that she had a UK No 1 hit with a band called Fiddler's Dram - 'Day Trip To Bangor'.

Is it lunchtime yet? My 'local' screen says it's 12.03 and the 'network' screen 12.6. My phone says 11.54 and my mobile says 12.04.



Is it any wonder I'm permanently confused and bewildered?



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#82 - That's a great link KatyMac ("KatyMac, when are you coming back?") - I know John Stanton Ward's work (former almost daily visitor to National Portrait Gallery!)- he was very good. I'll have to go and look for that cover, although all the ones we have in the house are the photographic covers that Macmillan did in the seventies. And I remember Fiddler's Dram only too well. And I mean TOO well!!!

Within Temptation - Never-Ending Story



Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten



Pandora's Box - Little Red Book

#81 - Yes, Harry - you;re right - they did, I'd forgotten that. But UTGT is probably the most televisual Hardy 'cos it's fundementally cheerful! "Tranter Dewy" is the name that sticks in mind from that. I thought Natassja Kinski as Tess was wonderful - exactly right. Telly would have to take the weight out of Hardy I think - there'd be letters in Radio Times complaining about too much misery on telly these days, and "can't we see more of Holly Willoughby?" all the time. I wonder when the last radio adaptation was? Ah well, getting back to the theme of the day...



YOUR DICTIONARY - XTC (though I wouldn't actually recommend playing it (too rude for R2), just sticking it on Spotify!)

#84



Yeah - *that* song. Started as a bit of a joke, then grew into the monstrous hit.

Not at all the sort of music the band usually played. They had an offshoot band called Oyster Ceilidh band which became the Oyster Band who are still very lively.

#87 Ah - I've come across the Oyster Band. I have a friend in Bucks with a very active band called Stomp, who I think cover some of the same festivals and the like. What was (is!)your friend's name - the singer in Fiddler's D?

#83



LOL at Toots.

Good afternoon,



How's about:



A WINTER'S TALE by David Essex

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK by Kirsty McColl and The Pogues



Yes, I now they are Christmas songs but it is the best I can do.



Good to see Paul of Sheff back.



Enjoying the Hardy related discussions. I remember Eustacia Vye. Was there also a character called Thomasina in Return of the Native?



Have a good day.x

#87 - I guess the nice thing about having a song like that though Katy is that it's a nice little pension! It must still bring in a few quid every year?

Just popping by briefly, whilst eating lunch



Happy birthday to Miss mcw and to Alex's Mogpoppets!



Back later



Tortie x

#90 Hello Julia, tell me another joke :-)



Was it Tamsin or Thomasin Yeobright (Clym Yoebright's cousin?) in Return of the Native?

romeo and juliet-dire straits



paperback writer-beatles



bright eyes-art garfunkle(watership down)



book of love-mudlarks

#90 - yes it was Thomasina and Eustacia. Was Thomasina called Yeobright? I know that was Clym's name, but was Thomasina his cousin?



#83 Toots - yes, it's five o'clock somewhere!

#93 - Harry - between us we must be right! And was it Thomasina or Thomasin? You must have a copy knocking about somewhere!



As for great Hardy women, and great Hardy women's names.......



Bathsheba Everdene (or, as she was known in our house, Julie Christie!)

#96....which brings us back to last nights SM show, because the Terry and Julie in Waterloo Sunset, that Teddy T sang last night, were named after Terence Stamp and Julie Christie in Far From the Madding Crowd!!

#95 - BandB - don't be wishing the time away m' Lovely, I'm quite happy for it to be lunchtime.



And btw Julie Christie is Lara.



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#96 B&B - I don't carry a lot of fiction (modern or classic); I can't compete with the charity shops so I don't try. I have a set of Hardy at home, I'll check tonight.

hey