It's just not worth it, being a pop-star these days, is it, to put it mildly! Each and every day of your lives there are, like, a billion humiliations, more, probably, that you have to suffer willy-nilly. They're almost 'legion'.
And this "truism" holds "true" (no pun intended!!!!) even for the really top rappers like Insane Clown Posse, featured in today's Onion News - did you catch the story (see print edition page 94 if you want chapter and verse!)?
It was total madness, wasn't it! But, my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I couldn't help smiling, a bit wryly, when we read the story, because our 14-year-old grandson Isaac is a pop-star-in-the-making, would you believe, and tonight he's going to get a ride to one of his breakthrough concerts in Godalming, not just with mum and dad, but with his grandparents - that is, Yours Truly and Mrs Yours Truly, aka me and Lois, no less !!!
me taking a chance on the weather and wearing my
Fascinating stuff, isn't it! [If you say so! - Ed]
I think that the first time you eat outside in the sunshine, after moving into a new house, is a landmark moment, because after all the trauma of moving house, opening up all the moving boxes, lugging stuff up and downstairs to stash them somewhere etc etc, and telling, like, a billion companies that you've changed your address, it somehow says "We've arrived, and we've sorted everything out, and, from now on, we can enjoy ourselves and really have a lot of fun here".
What could possibly be more humiliating than that, to put it mildly!!!!!
our grandson and budding pop idol Isaac (14), arriving in
Godalming, Surrey, yesterday for one of his breakthrough concerts,
with mum Alison and granny Lois, both sporting handbags !!!!
Poor Isaac !!!!!
But more on that story, later, so watch this space !!!!!
For Lois and me, today, May 17th, turns out to be a bit of a day-long musical frenzy, starting with a walk in nearby Radford Park, where, to get ourselves "in the mood", for the first time we really let our excitement rip with our shiny new "merlin" app, which identifies birds from their songs.
And today's walk was something of a landmark walk for me, because for the first time this year, I'm taking a chance on the weather and wearing my Australian shorts [not shown], an "impulse buy" when Lois and I were visiting our daughter Sarah in Australia back in 2018.
2018 Australian shorts for the first time this year [not shown]
[You're not going to try and make those shorts last another year, surely, Colin. They're disgusting! - Ed]
[Well, I may buy a new pair next year, but that's still "in the planning stage" - but watch this space, or rather watch my shorts - except you can't because they've been edited out of today's blog, for decency's sake haha! - Colin]
It's also a landmark day for us both, because we only moved into our current home in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire in January this year. And thanks to Lois's sheer hard labour, for which I take no credit [You lazy bastard, Colin! - Ed], our little patio has been cleared of rubble and extraneous grass, and for the first time we take lunch on it before going upstairs for our afternoon "nap-time".
Again, I'm letting my knees be a hostage to fortune by continuing to wear my 7-year-old Australian shorts [not shown].
our first lunch out no the patio is just finishing
and an afternoon in bed is calling us
Do you know what I mean?
[That's enough background 'tosh'! - Ed]
17:10 And the fun starts here, at exactly ten past five, when, as promised our son-in-law Ed arrives with our daughter Alison and our grandson, budding pop-idol Isaac (14), to speed us off in their big car all the way to tiny Godalming, Surrey, for one of Isaac's breakthrough concerts.
Of course Isaac isn't really a budding pop idol exactly, but even budding pop idols have got to start somewhere, so why not Godalming? It's first mentioned in Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred the Great's will, back in the 880's AD, and was the birthplace of James Oglethorpe, who founded the state of Georgia in the USA. More famously still, perhaps, it's where crime novelist Agatha Christie's husband Archie went to bed with his then current "squeeze", one fateful night back in the 1920's, an incident which angered the novelist and led to her mysterious 3 week disappearance, that made headlines around the world.
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
Young Isaac is in Godalming tonight to "strut his stuff", musically, on the boards of Godalming's iconic "Wilfrid Noyce Centre", named after the mountaineer and war-time code-breaker, whose alma mater was Charterhouse School in the town.
It was Noyce, who, with a colleague, made the first allied break into high-level Japanese Army codes in India in 1943,. He then taught foreign languages in Malvern College, Worcestershire after the war, and then took part in the first successful ascent of Mt Everest in 1953. What a guy!
me with son-in-law Edward, sitting in Row 2 and
waiting for the concert to begin...
Well, here, now, comes "those photos" the ones you've all been waiting to see, of young Isaac on stage at the Noyce Centre, Godalming, bashing out the vocals with his band, on their version of the Pixies' 1988 smash, "Where Is My Mind?".
Isaac, seen here just before his band's "set", getting
last minute tips from his singing coach, Penny (right)
Isaac, in full flow, belting out his band's version of the Pixies'
1988 smash, "Where Is My Mind?"
Isaac and his band, coming off stage, at the end of their 'set'
And when Lois and I get home after the 'gig', although we weren't going to do it, just for completeness sake, we succumb and do it anyway.
Yes, you've guessed it, we find ourselves watching the first hour of the Eurovision Song Contest Final, an annual event which we stopped watching at the turn of the millennium because of the generally poor quality of entries - my goodness, yes, call us 'stand-offish' or 'stand-offish and not-watchish' if you can say that and not shower everybody within about 10 feet of you haha (!).
"Why did you two 'noggins' break the habit of the millennium and watch a bit of Eurovision after all, Colin?", I hear you cry!
[Not me, I'm already getting my 'jim-jams' on! - Ed]
Well, seeing as how you're obviously "gagging" to know (!), the reason that we decide to watch some of it, is that Isaac told us at the concert earlier this evening, that his former singing coach, Lauren Byrne, is now "the ginger one" in the girl trio the "Remember Mondays", who are singing the UK's entry this year .
What are the chances of that happening, eh?!!!!
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!
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