My first week of annual leave is reaching its end - at this very moment we should have been in Amsterdam, waking up to the sights and thrills of that great city, dammit! - and the weather continues to be crap. It's been windy, sunny, cloudy and pissing-down with rain in turn every day this week, and today and tomorrow we're forecast more thunderstorms, would you believe? The days are getting noticeably shorter and yet, apart from one or two sizzling hot moments it desn't feel as if we have actually had a summer at all...
Hey ho. Another weekend beckons, and it's time to plan some kind of party by way of a celebration! [I am actually off tonight with John-John to the first post-lockdown reunion of a gaggle of former colleagues we worked with at my last job, which might be a giggle.]
With the sad news this week that Chicago house DJ Paul Johnson has ascended the glittering pathway to Fabulon, it seems fitting that his most famous hit should be the one to get proceedings off with a flourish - and Thank Disco It's Friday!
Odd video - but certainly very summery. Sigh.
Have a great weekend, dear reader!
That first gif. My word. Remember that satin? They did jogging suits in it, too. It was awful and fun. So shiny. And the piping on the shorts. Sigh. Them were the days, my dear. Kizzes. Have a lovely weekend. You know... we could use a bit of a rain. Big drought here... and lots of fires.
ReplyDeleteI remember satin clothing - although I never wore it myself, of course, not being a member of Pans People.
DeletePlease help yourself the the endless rain we're getting here! Could do with a break... Jx
Have fun!
ReplyDeleteI think we are in Peri-Autumn. I've noticed the days shortening, and I don't like it.
Sx
"Peri-Autumn" - that's a new one on me. It's been rotten weather for most of 2021, and I don't like that either. Two week-long heatwaves separated by gloom do not a summer make. Pah! Jx
DeleteYes, I fear we too are heading the wrong direction. If this keeps up their won't be any big travels next years either. I so miss travel as a broad, ah, I meant abroad
ReplyDeleteThings are lifting here - with 90% of UK adults having had their first jab, and 74% both jabs - slowly, and cautiously, of course. However, it's not going so well in the Netherlands (we would have had to self-isolate for ten days on arrival; our entire trip was only four nights), hence the reason we're not there. We keep our fingers crossed for Spain in February as they seem to have been more "on the ball" with vaccinations, since they were so badly hit by COVID in the earliest stages.
DeleteMeanwhile, Pride London's been cancelled. Again. Jx
Enjoy a giggle with your gaggle.
ReplyDeleteGoogled giggle-gaggling and goggled:
DeleteThe giggling gaggling gaggle of geese,
they keep all the cows and the chickens awake,
they giggle all night giving nobody peace.
The giggling gaggling gaggle of geese.
The giggling gaggling gaggling geese,
they chased all the ducks and the swans from the lake.
when will the pranks and the noise ever cease
of the giggling gaggling gaggle of geese!
- Jack Prelutsky
Jx
Flick Colby and Pan's People strike again
ReplyDeleteSo pleased they were not able to do an interpretation of Paul Johnson's output.
Love that track And fab video(i.e. No satin!)
Satin hot-pants and Chicago House music were never really complementary... Jx
DeletePrelutsky makes up for PP's satin. Enjoy your social outing.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good evening! No satin involved. Jx
DeleteFun music! I was worried for the jockey there for a moment, but then it just turned into a bit of dancing.
ReplyDeleteAs I say, a weird video - but lots of summery fun! Jx
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