Me Wise Magic - Van Halen
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Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 8th October 2014, 10:24 AM BSTMe Wise Magic - Van Halen
No, I don't understand the title.
It would read as cockney if I didn't know better.
Magic - Pilot
Quote: A Horseradish @ 8th October 2014, 11:35 AM BSTNo, I don't understand the title.
It would read as cockney if I didn't know better.
Magic - Pilot
We quoite arfen yoos "me" sted "my" un thus part a th' wurl bor. 
Queen - A Kind Of Magic
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 8th October 2014, 11:43 AM BSTWe quoite arfen yoos "me" sted "my" un thus part a th' wurl bor.
Queen - A Kind Of Magic
That's interesting because I first thought "is it Beowulf or Chaucer?" Then I thought "no, it's more like Dutch or even Danish". Then I realised it was East Anglian, although out Norfolk correspondent might well have a different opinion. And it just goes to show how that part of the world does have it's own very distinct vibe.
A Groovy Kind of Love - Wayne Fontana
Quote: A Horseradish @ 8th October 2014, 12:24 PM BSTThat's interesting because I first thought "is it Beowulf or Chaucer?" Then I thought "no, it's more like Dutch or even Danish". Then I realised it was East Anglian, although out Norfolk correspondent might well have a different opinion. And it just goes to show how that part of the world does have it's own very distinct vibe.
A Groovy Kind of Love - Wayne Fontana
That is interesting - Norfolk and Suffolk accents are quite similar, but those in the north tend to "sing" when they talk.
Captain Fantastic - Wayne Rooney............No, maybe not..........................
Michael Ball - Love Changes Everything
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 8th October 2014, 12:39 PM BSTThat is interesting - Norfolk and Suffolk accents are quite similar, but those in the north tend to "sing" when they talk.
Captain Fantastic - Wayne Rooney............No, maybe not..........................
Michael Ball - Love Changes Everything
One of my mates from Norwich spoke as if he was from Surrey and the other sounded like the proverbial tractor driver. They went to the same school as each other and they lived on adjoining streets. It was, though, probably only the latter who had proper Norfolk heritage. I wouldn't say either of them "sang".
While I visited them a couple of times and met a range of people they knew, I regret not having seen my uncle when he moved to that region. He was an outdoors type who leapt at the chance to go rural on retirement, moving to Gillingham near Beccles, from London, SE17. I mention that because this all started with a cockney reference and you took that on a bit. He was more or less a cockney and he settled there among the working class rural accents as if he had been born to it. He and the locals did a three men in a boat sort of thing for ten years - fishing, horticulture, etc. He only went back south - to Hastings - as his wife was bored. Then at 80 she made life more interesting by divorcing him. Bizarre - and not a little sad.
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
You Sure Love To Ball - Marvin Gaye
Quote: A Horseradish @ 8th October 2014, 12:52 PM BSTThen at 80 she made life more interesting by divorcing him.
WOW!! It beggars the question..........why??? 
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 8th October 2014, 1:10 PM BSTYou Sure Love To Ball - Marvin Gaye
Couldn't resist this!
Marvin, I love You - Marvin, the Paranoid Android
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 8th October 2014, 1:23 PM BSTWOW!! It beggars the question..........why???
Couldn't resist this!
Marvin, I love You - Marvin, the Paranoid Android
It was a second marriage but his first wife died when they were in their 40s so he and wife two had been together for 30 odd years. She said she, quote, "didn't want to be with an old man any longer" but she was the same age as him. I have my own theory. She had security issues, possibly on account of being placed at quite an early age in a childrens' home. I think he kept her grounded. He was very "call a spade a spade".
But then something just gave in her at the start of her ninth decade and she went back in her head to those times. In fact, she returned to her original streets in inner London which were notorious by then for drug gangs and to her it was like it had originally been. She was in a total fantasy world. He was worried about her but the family thought she had hurt him so we found a nice place for him in the suburbs nearby.
Good heavens........there's a book in everyone's life somewhere. 
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 8th October 2014, 1:36 PM BSTGood heavens........there's a book in everyone's life somewhere.
Here's a thing. He was my Godfather actually and was of an age to have been my grandfather on that side. Very blunt. Happy. Always laughing - even when what happened, happened. And we found somewhere for him - an old peoples' place just outside the London boundary. He would joke that for the first time in his life his neighbours were "posh". Then in his final year - possibly his last couple of months - Penelope Keith turned up at that home. She had been made High Sheriff of Surrey for the year and was visiting in that capacity. He showed her round the gardens which he single-handedly maintained. They joked. She was fantastic. He was thrilled. It was a meeting of the two ends of the class spectrum and it really worked well.
Anyhow:
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Black Sun - The Cult
Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry And The Pacemakers
Catch The Sun - Doves
Catch A Wave - Beach Boys