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Merry Christmas Jandle,  I love the way in New Zealand even though it is summer we love to sing Christmas songs with winter themes.     

Merry Christmas Jim your song captures the meaning of Christmas real good.     

Cheers EB and Neo your good blokes also.     

Beamer I love the way you have summed up many years and put into a song about finding a love and then a break up. There is a big chunk of that song that tells some of my life story. I look forward to hearing it as a song.     

Your on Fire Richard excellent.     

Jim I love the way you write the perfect lyrics. I admire your songwriting and look forward to hearing this one. Another excellent bit of writing. I can hear Angels singing it in my mind.     

Excellent TIG.     

Good choice Badeye.  Stevie was not only a top  musician he was a nice guy much loved by many New Zealanders, There are many stories of him helping musicians with their music and careers  once he got his life in order after his wild years. A young lady Stevie-Ray who works at the Bar where I meet Easybeat and few others for a beer was named after him  by her parents.  Stevie  visited New Zealand and fell in love with Janna Lapidus   a local girl from here in Lower Hutt,  Wellington. They were to be married. There was even talk - a lot of talk - of how he planned to move here; to kick back in New Zealand, possibly in a state of semi-retirement, maybe dividing his time between here and some annual European/American touring. She was only a teen model who worked with him in a New Zealand TV commercial. Despite their age differences and the fact they were from different countries , they made their relationship work. He reportedly turned over a new leaf and gave up on his hard partying lifestyle for her. He famously bought a sunburst Diplomat Strat-style guitar for Janna to learn how to play. She travelled and even moved in with him until the fatal helicopter crash killed him in 1990. In the last four years of his life a lot happened for Vaughan – he finally hit down with some incredible solo albums building on his years of playing as sideman and leader. Mitch Marsden a Kiwi Bluesman became a good  friend of Stevie Ray Vaughan; when Mitch  visited Texas at various times he would stay at Vaughan's house for months on end. Mitch told a reporter that Stevie was a down to earth guy who loved to jam with everyday folk and make music.

That is a very good poem EB . I think as more and more people around the world find life hard we will see more people rioting as they have in Paris..They are people who have found that the cost of living has got out of hand for them to survive..
While some new jobs are being created in the world economies, many are now in the low-paying sectors and are usually temporary. Corporate leaders and mainstream economists tell us that the rising unemployment figures represent short-term "adjustments" to powerful market-driven forces that are speeding the global economy in a new direction. They hold out the promise of an exciting new world of high-tech automated production, booming global commerce, and unprecedented material abundance. Well a simple person like me can’t believe that or see it happening. The role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors. In all three key employment sectors - agriculture, manufacturing, and services, machines are quickly replacing human labour and promise an economy of near automated production by the mid-decades of this century As the new generation of "smart" robots, armed with greater intelligence and flexibility, make their way to the market, manufacturers are far more likely to substitute them for workers because they are most cost effective. It is estimated each robot replaces four jobs in the economy, and if in constant use twenty-four hours a day, will pay for itself in just over one year.  The number of robots is expected to rise dramatically in the coming decades as thinking machines become far more intelligent, versatile, and flexible. Already, millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process, and whole work categories and job assignments have shrunk, been restructured, or disappeared. Global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s. More  human beings are now unemployed or underemployed in the world. The numbers are likely to rise sharply in future years as millions of new entrants into the workforce find themselves without jobs. Sorry I better stop my raving.. My point is as people find it harder to pay their way, they are more likely to take to the streets and  riot.     

Richard you did an excellent cover.     

Jeff I enjoyed the weather picture you painted with that song.     

In tthe Best tradition of Folk music you are putting protest into your song Grah. I dont know much about whats happening in the Uk .It was interesting for me  talking to an 80 something year old, Brit the other day . He is visiting NZ and told me next election he is going to vote for the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. He said he has had enough of  all politicians in the UK including the party he supported for the last sixty years.