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CG I like the way Kelly puts it all together with just himself and a guitar.     

Cheers Zurf and thank you. I can't imagine myself still been here at 100.     

Cheers thank you Beamer.     

iechyd da   Phill very interesting  your comments. Watching the soccer hooligans  from Europe and the UK on TV makes me wonder if they are there for their team or just out to cause violence and destruction. Today people in education are now realizing that kids who speak more than one language do better than those who are monolingual.

Kia ora to you and your family  my friend.     

Thank you Roger and Jim.
In answer to Jim's  PS question about Welsh language.   Kiwis and the Welsh have a bond through the love of a game called Rugby Union and also New Zealanders love of the way the Welsh sing. We  love it when the Welsh send us greetings in their native language and they enjoy things in Maori language.  Mr. and Mrs. Google are always good for  translating but usually a translation is provided by saying it both in Welsh and English and the same with Maori. Though we don't have a big percentage of the population who speak Maori in New Zealand the ones that do are mostly over 70 years old or under forty years old. There has been a big push in last thirty or so years to save and revive the Maori language.     Nowadays my mum only speaks her native Fijian language when in Fijian church or at formal occasions or for celebration of importance. I stopped speaking Fijian when I was five years old  and struggle now to understand or speak it.

Good one Beamer     

Good one Phill I remember as a kid my dad with his sense of humour teaching me that the rein of Queen Victoria was different to the rain of Elizabeth. Was it My Fair Lady the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain?  Was it the song Limbo Rock that had Jack be nimble Jack be be quick?     

EB your in good form. your vocals and guitar excellent.     

Cheers Phill thank you for your feed back.  I was trying to get that late 60s psychedelic sound it was also me  being experimental with double tracking.  I had an idea in my head but I couldn't pull it of the way I wanted it to sound. I messed up in a many  parts of it. The up side of it was I have learnt a lot and hopefully it will help me to do something a bit better next time. If I did that one again I would do things different in various  parts of it. The video side is just me taking pictures and videos on my cheap  phone around the valley where I live. I like the idea of people making videos and taking pictures and making music  without expensive tech.

Jeff that is brilliant you paint a good picture with your song of a writer in a quiet home making mind  images with words that flow. For me to write a decent song can be very elusive for me.  I admire the way  you are able to do it naturally with a nice folky style that tells good stories.
My favourite time to write is when I am alone in the house my ears in the quiet hear the sounds around me which I don't normally hear.     It is then I develop the ideas that have come to me in the days and nights before. I seem to get ideas for poems and songs while out and about and then when I am in the shower or doing other things more words come to me or sometimes new ideas. I have had whole poems or songs come to me in the shower  but usually by the time get out of the shower I can't remember what it was.  I have written a couple things early in the morning I will be fast asleep an idea comes to me I quickly hop out of bed speedily write it down before the universe steals the thought from  me sending it into outer space and a place where I cant cant find it again. The right time to some how put it all together all  those bits and pieces of words floating around usually for  me  can be hard to find sometimes.  I need to be in my house with just me and my thoughts and the sound of life outside.