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My Interests

Fine food, fine wine and travelling round the country to see great bands in concert. Have car, will travel. Let's face it - have passport, will travel too these days. The furthest I've gone for a gig so far is New York to see Daryl Hall at BB King's on Times Square. Can I top that one day, I wonder....?

Jules' Pick of the Week

Fran King's debut album
"Beautification"
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I'd like to meet:

There's really only one person on my 'would like to meet' list and that's Jimmy Page. A girl can live in hope, can't she...? LOL! I just want to shake the hand of the man whose music has meant more to me over the past 30 years than anybody else's. Actually, I'd really like to hug him but I guess I'd settle for a handshake. LOL!

Ah, what a killer smile he has...

Music:

I'm a rock chick first and foremost and my absolute favourite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. Nobody else even comes close for me. After that (in no particular order and a real mixed bag) Thunder, Tyketto/Vaughn, Winterville, Little Angels/Toby Jepson, Great White, Whitesnake, Jeff Scott Soto, Roadstar, Richie Sambora, Hall & Oates, The Urbane, Billy Joel, Don Mescall, Frank Sinatra and, of course, the wonderful...

And this video by Duke Special is a current favourite of mine...

And here's the fab Fran King...

Prodigal Sunshine (live in MN Oct' 06)

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And then there's the talented Duncan Maitland, seen here with Fran King at the Fine Line in Minneapolis..."FAN CLUB" - Live at the Fineline, MPLS 10/06

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And last but not least... gifted singer/songwriter Don Mescall. Hm, definitely a Hibernian theme going on here..
Don Mescall - Late Late Show Nov 2006

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Movies:

'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'Some Like it Hot', 'Ocean's Eleven' (both versions), 'Life of Brian', 'The Lord of the Rings trilogy', James Cagney gangster films ('White Heat', 'Angels with Dirty Faces', 'Public Enemy')....

Television:

Not much these days. Interesting documentaries, classic British comedies, BBC dramas.

Books:

Favourite authors include Jane Austen, Mikhail Bulgakov, Helen Fielding, JK Rowling, Peter Ustinov, Charlotte Bronte. I like travel books, poetry, biographies of people who have led interesting lives.

Heroes:

My Blog

Happy International Women's Day!

Just a quickie (oo er, missus) before I head off to work for the evening. We don't make enough of this day here in the UK, I feel. When I was in the former Soviet Union as a student many, many moons a...
Posted by Jules on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:08:00 PST

Will I never learn...?

You almost got a lengthy blog about my Speed Awareness Course in Lancs yesterday. However, I pressed the wrong button when previewing it and it has now disappeared down a black hole. Consider yourselv...
Posted by Jules on Sat, 06 May 2006 07:22:00 PST

Not my day (procrastination strikes again)

I really needed to nip into work today for an hour or two to type up my annual report without any distractions and email it to my line manager. I put it off for most of the day, you know how it is..."...
Posted by Jules on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:38:00 PST

A pox on thee!

Inspired by a comment on my MySpace board about Shakespeare which resulted in my returning a pithy insult courtesy of the Bard, do you have a favourite insult (which is clean enough to print here?) ?...
Posted by Jules on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:58:00 PST

Procrastination - talent or vice?

As I sit here putting off for the umpteenth time the various bits of housework I swore would be accomplished today, I have decided that if there was a Guinness World Record for Procrastination, nobody...
Posted by Jules on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:39:00 PST

Today I drove to Killaloe....

... and I thought of you. Drifting through the hills of Spain Oh God I'd love to see you again. I crossed the bridge to Ballina And there you are At least it looks like you In the rain outside the c...
Posted by Jules on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:23:00 PST

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland....

...Then maybe at the closing of your day You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh And see the sun go down on Galway Bay. Well, that's what I did on Tuesday. Instead of resting after the e...
Posted by Jules on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:56:00 PST

The Famous Five Go Dutch

No, nothing to do with Enid Blyton, or even Thunder. The Five I am referring to are my good (or not so good, as it turned out ) self, Ceri, Smurf, Jack Daniels and Mr Jagermeister. The day started ou...
Posted by Jules on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:31:00 PST

Croeso i Cymru (....or something like that!)

Welcome to Wales. Yep, and as the old joke goes, you're welcome to it! LOL! Not only does it now cost 4.90 to get across the Severn Bridge on the way into Wales (I remember having a conversation...
Posted by Jules on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:54:00 PST

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....

.. especially when it's to see yet another Thunder show. After a much-needed day off to recover from getting home from Sheffield at 5.15 on Monday morning, it was time to pack the car again for the sc...
Posted by Jules on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:54:00 PST