Indulge me please. I have gone down with a second dose of Wolf Flu due to nursing the NSW through the mild, girly version of same all last week and am feeling very fragile. She’s gone back to work now and I’m huddled under my blanket feeling very sorry for myself, so, in between arguing the toss on Latin grammar earlier with Bearsy, I thought I’d indulge myself on YouTube with those songs that make me feel like I have something in my eye.
Did ’em all including Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’, which I last heard in a friend’s garden in Jo’burg (very spooky), Knopfler’s ‘Brothers in Arms’, ‘Tusk’ by Fleetwood Mac, ‘Va Pensiero’ by Nabucco, Pink Floyd’s ‘Poles Apart’, that duet from the Pearl Fishers that featured in a British Airways ad once and Nana Mouskouri’s ‘White Rose of Athens’, which had me in bits, frankly, but these two really did it for me
and, particularly
which had me on the floor to be honest.
Do you have a particular song that you can’t listen to without getting goosebumps?
OZ
Boadicea's Chariot 
Thank you for that, OZ. Music speaks better than Latin.
A pleasure. It has been a very weird day.
OZ
🙂
Well then, if you have time on your hands perhaps you could familiarise yourself with sticking pictures in comments 😉
Get well soon!
Nice one, Toc. Sounds like the band of the Royal Marines?
OZ
Although I prefer the vocal version:
That was a low blow, Soutie, but I’ll try. 🙂
OZ
Very nice too, Pseu.
OZ
Hello OZ music that gives me ‘goosebumps varies from time to time and it’s difficult to pick a piece of ‘popular music’. I haven’t plucked up the courage to even attempt listening to a Wagner opera, but I like Wagner without Brunhilde (although one of my neighbours has transformed herself into a Brunhilde – every time I see her The Ride of the Valkyrie springs to mind). But here we go (no singing) Siegfried’s Rhine Journey:-
A classic in every respect, Peter.
Thank you.
OZ
Take care of yourself, OZ. This current ‘flu bug is nasty and takes a while to get over.
Oh, Oz.
I’m sorry you are feeling a bit under the weather.
I hope you feel better soon.
Indulgence; well you did ask, so this is utterly indulgent!
Haw, OZ. Get well soon.
PB’s offering is not bad but, if you’re talking Wagner, you cannae whack the Prize Song from Act III of ‘Meistersinger von Nurnberg’, in my opinion. Pure dead brilliant!
Heres a tip OZ,
Find yourself a good whisky, pour a generous double then add my secret ingredient.
Another generous double. It will do bugger all for the debilitating, crippling, life threatening man flu I’m afraid but you will be past caring. 🙂
While you are waiting for the magic malt to do its thang, kindly enjoy a favourite ditty of mine.
Great minds and all that, Pseu. You need to talk to PB.
🙂
OZ
You’re not kidding, Sheona. Worst wolf-flu I’ve ever had.
OZ
Dammit, Araminta – I understand why in the circumstances, but did you have to pick that particular one?
OZ
JM – Really makes the hackles stand up, that one.
Cheers.
OZ
Sorry, Oz. 😦
It is a bit sad, and very indulgent but you did ask!
Bilby is still recovering from a very bad episode of marsupial ‘flu; very unusual, she is never ill.
Bless you, Ferret, but this is waaaaaay beyond man-flu, which is but a slight sniffle by comparison, despite what the NSW may tell you. This is full-blown Wolf Flu and I need to die, soon. Good drills on your part, though. Before I go I’m going to pour myself another large one and listen to Sr. José once again. Never heard of him before to be honest, but he is as welcome on the ear as a good malt is on the throat. I shall enjoy both.
OZ
Araminta – Sorry to hear that Bilby is also hors de combat. Please wish her all the best for a speedy recovery (and explain I was in no way implying she was some kind of medieval French camp-follower).
OZ
I will convey your best wishes, OZ, and I don’t think she thought you were implying anything of the sort. 🙂
OZ,
That was my old Corps March and my fathers before me, The Watch Tower. I just thought it may inspire you to get out of your pit and savage a few locals. 🙂
Toc – As a military chap you must know that ‘the locals’ are the Englishman’s oldest allies – something to do with fortified wines, I believe. The Jocks, by comparison preferred the French for the Burgandy. As for the Taffs and the Micks, I know not what they drank.
When recovered I might slip across the Spanish border and savage a few locals over there, just to keep in practice you understand. 🙂
OZ
Just to explain: Peter’s link wasn’t showing as the clip – just the address bar, so I posted it for him – then it looked as tough I had picked it out as well…. sorry
OZ, man, you are now havering (delirious). Never ‘Burgandy’ or even Burgundy. Our tipple of choice in the good old days of the Auld Alliance (before MoO, who is not a Jock, spoiled it for me) was claret, also known as Bordeaux.
On the fortified wine reason for Portugal being your oldest ally, gonnae google to find out when and why said fortified wine was developed and how many of the famous Port Houses were not Jockish in part at least? I’m claiming Dow’s, Sandeman, Cockburn and Graham for a start.
Still not claiming MoO, for the avoidance of doubt.
The Jockish lot will latch on to everything. They actually believe the they invented the haggis, pipe music and deep fried Mars Bars. Whatever next, a real Jockish National Anthem? 🙂
OZ: The Welsh are reputed to drink mead (fermented honey) personally I prefer a glass or two of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand) but I have been away a long time.
Mr. Mackie – I knew it was red and French, but just couldn’t get my head around the spelling of Beaujolais at the time, which was a shame when it was Bordeaux anyway. I need some sleep and lots of sympathy and the NSW doesn’t come off duty until Thursday. And I don’t care what you say or how many times you deny it, the Dick is one of yours. 🙂
OZ
LW – Mead is the drink of Satan. Give me an Aussie Shiraz any day and then a good Scotch.
OZ
OZ, I hope this morning finds you recovering. 🙂
But OZ,
“Bless you, Ferret, but this is waaaaaay beyond man-flu”
Thats the beauty of my cure-all. Whatever ails you, merely up the dosage. Seemples.
In sufficient quantitiies you find you will even be unconcerned about bad latin, add another 100cc to that and you will be able speak Aussie like a native. 😉
🙂
OZ, I know you’re ill, but get a grip! Madorleans does not write like a Scot and nothing he says makes me think he is Scottish.
My mother said that I never should
Ever have anything to do with a wolf.
Not even a sick one.
Actually, especially not a sick one.
Get well soon.
How’s the flu?
Where’s the photo?
No, really… are you OK?