A Good Year for the Roses - I

"And, it's three top ten hits in ten seconds for Elvis Costello"

"Red shoes ..... The Angels Want to Wear my Red Shoes" - that was my contribution (memorable song from my first year in University).

"Watching the Detectives" - that one from Adam.

And, and .......... time running out ........ "Good Year for the Roses" - just got that one in before the time ran out.

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During the long periods working on the barn - especially the interminable plastering - the radio provided a distraction and background for us. We started with Bleu Armor and managed to listen to that for several weeks until we finally twigged that, with the absence of anything apart from news bulletins and adverts, it ran on a loop between 10:00 and 4:00 (so maybe that's why Phil Collins is on French radio so much).

Then we progressed to internet radio - there are thousands of stations available and we toyed with Absolute Radio 80's Hits (the music of the '80's is a sort of neutral ground between my age and Adam's; then we tried Abacus Radio '80's Hits (an American station, I suspect just an iPod on shuffle connected to the server); brief forays with Dutch stations, RFM and MacJingle 80's hits (a german station, again an iPod connected to a server) followed. Finally we gravitated back to BBC Radio 2 for Ken Bruce in the morning and Steve Wright in the afternoon (but Jeremy Vine between 12 and 2 caused us to shout at the radio too much - not good for getting a smooth plaster finish).

And so the popmaster game has become a continuing focus of the morning for us and it's concluding "3 in 10" competition.