Valley of the Trolley Dollies

This year I have travelled to

• New Zealand
• Australia
• Dublin
• Norway
• Sweden
• Finland
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Russia
• Poland
• New York.

After a very very long period of either reading books that left me going ‘eh,’ or not reading at all, I have loved books by

• Armistead Maupin (too short for the wait endured, but with the right amount of bitter and sweet. But Mona? Never in a million years).
• Lindsey Davis (eventually, after a couple of attempts).
• Benjamin Black
• Anne Enright
• Michael Moorcock

Enjoyed

• Bear Cub
• The 300
• The Golden Compass
• Volver 
• Rome
• Heroes
• Ugly Betty

And gooved on to

• Darren Hayes: “This Delicate Thing we’ve made” (my album of the year!)
• Duran Duran’s Red Carpet Massacre (after an initial period of uncertainty)
• Bossun “Future’s gone tomorrow, Life is here Today”
• The Ark “Weekend”
• Seal “System”
• Garth Brooks “Ultimate Hits Album”

and so many more they’ll probably get a whole post to themselves some time soon.

The tagline - that bit at the top of the page under the “Valley of the Trolley Dollies” title is a nice little way of putting down something that reflects how you’re feeling - how the site is heading - at a particular time.

This year, I’ve kept notes of the Taglines I’ve used. Let’s see what they tell me about the year almost gone…

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Hey there.

Sorry for the extended hiatus.

The new job took over my life there for a while.

Looks like it could be busy for a while, but I’ve

made the decision to make time to have a life, and so

Blogging will resume shortly.

Off to Cornwall for Christmas.

For now, here are some photos which were taken in July

Just outside of St Petersburg.

The solos by ourselves, the duos by Dennis Dean.

Happy Christmas to all, may 2008 bring you

Love Laughter, and Friends to share it with.

VB

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