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Cheers Phill and Jim thank you for your kind comments  a great way to start the year. After reading Phills  lyrics to Searchin' on chordie  the video idea popped into my head. I sent Phill  some of  my video ideas when  he reluctantly agreed to forward to me his demo . When he emailed  me him doing a demo of it which he wasn’t  completely happy with I eagerly started  the process of putting a video together. The synergy  with the interaction of his song and my video felt good.  Our two inputs combined produced a total effect that was greater than the sum of the individual elements. The song needed the video and the video needed the song. When I emailed him with the finished result I felt a bit apprehensive thinking maybe he wouldn’t like it. Thankfully he did like the outcome. I was very pleased and thankful to Phill for allowing me to make this video. Special thanks to Cuba Mall Dancers  Wellington for being in this video.

Ken and Jim that is an excellent collaboration   Poems can become songs and songs can become poems.     

Phill, Jack and Vera were great characters. Back in the late 60's -70s  when there was only one TV channel here people use to talk about Coro as though it was real life.   I knew two old ladies who fell out because one loved Ena Sharples and the other hated her. Peter Adamson who played Leonard Fairclough  was brought out here by a company I worked for to do a months residency at a flash restaurant cabaret  called the Beefeater Arms. He was trying to be a singer entertainer but even though he could act his singing wasn't  up to much. The first week his show was full house but word got around how bad it was hardly anyone one went. They got him a spot on a daytime TV show here he insisted on not being interviewed unless they let him sing a song which he did real bad not a smart move on his part. He had some other gigs on the books but they were canned. Another one who was out here was the lady who played Else Tanner her stage shows went down good and were all sold out with good reviews. The woman that played Stan and  Hilda Ogden's daughter Irma  ( Sandra Gough )   lived in Wellington for a while and was married to a local man very briefly. They split and she left town.

Jim you are a craftsman with words I love those lyrics.  The chorus also is perfect. That is worth an A+

such is the fate of those with wretched lives
hopelessly waiting for their ships to arrive
too scared to be bold, and face the cruel facts
and haunted by visions of what their lives lack     

Ken even though you made the storyline up it would be true of many a family situation where the father is a drunk. Brilliant song.

Jim I wish I could write lyrics as good as that to my Maree. I love that verse below as it sort tells my story a bit with Maree.
It was a summer’s day when I first met her
and I knew she was special from the start
yeah her smile, her eyes, the way she made me laugh
those little things that sometimes will steal your heart     

Merry Christmas to you Phill and all your family.. In the area where I live Butcher shops sell only meat and Fish shops or fish mongers sell fish. But having said that the supermarkets have killed most butcher shops so there are not many left now. We still have plenty of fish shops around .So you can get both fish and meat at the supermarket plus pet food for cats or dogs. .For other types of pet food the pet shops are where you would go.  Most people here feed their cats with cat with food products from the pet food isle in the Supermarket.
We don't have any pets now but our last cat use to be very fussy only eat one brand of tin cat meat and also liked sheep hearts from the butcher, Our family dogs use to eat dog roll  that you can buy in supermarkets and Lamb shanks from the butcher or other meat with bones suitable for dogs.
Our Christmas day started here at  11am Christmas eve your time as our time zone is  13  hours ahead of yours.

A Merry Christmas from New Zealand to you all. Wishing you all the very best and good health for 2021.
Pete

Zurf Merry Christmas reading your post about mortgage lenders these words came into my head.
Mortgage lenders steal a man's soul.
While putting him in a hole.
So deep you wonder if there is light at the top.

Beamer the time is right everything before that  was just orbiting around  and  has now  positioned itself well for your son who is willing and ready to be a drummer in his dads band.  Toni has being away far to long from playing  music in your band  a week can be along time let alone most of the year when your got that music passion.