Here comes the bride*

The shock of Monday is upon us...

How much do I hate the feeling that time always flits by in a flash at at the weekends, yet the working week seems to drag..?!

However, this week is indeed the last grim obstacle before we clack our castanets and bugger off to the Costa del Sol next Saturday, so let's grin and bear it, shall we?

To lift our spirits on this Tacky Music Monday, here's an exercise in campery of the first order - courtesy of the late, dearly departed Concha Velasco, her abanico-flapping chorines and lithe safety gays!

I was planning to take a similar outift with me to Spain, but the cabin bag allowance on EasyJet forbids it, unfortunately...

Concha Velasco - La Novia de España

Have a good week, dear reader.

[*Novia = "Bride" in Spanish]

Fuego!

The freezing cold snap at the end of last week broke overnight on Saturday - and now we have full-on murky, drizzly and depressing weather in prospect. Deep joy.

The latest in a long line of gay icons from the "land of kitsch" Spain, Señorita Concha Velasco shook her tail-feathers for the very last time on Saturday and departed for the Fabulon Palace of Varieties.

On this Tacky Music Monday, let's revisit some of her most OTT moments, by way of a tribute - and a wake-up call!

Concha Velasco - La Estudiantina Portuguesa

Concha Velasco - El Águila de Fuego

Fantabulosa!

Have a good week, dear reader.

Extra-curricular studies?

Sigh.

Monday again. Why is it a law of physics that days beginning with an "S" fly by so quickly..?

Never mind, eh, it was [on and off] a sunny weekend, which of course leads to thoughts of España [well it does to moi, anyway!]. So without further ado on this Tacky Music Monday, let's have a little slice of - ahem - talent from that lovely country to cheer us up as we reluctantly slope off to the office for another five days of unbridled joy...

Concha Velasco - La Estudiantina Portuguesa

Señorita Velasco makes everything better!

Have a good week, dearies.

La fantasia musical de gran espectáculo

Darlings! While doing some - ahem - research for suitable music to add to our countdown to Saturday's trip to Spain, I came across this, and thought it would be churlish of me not to share...

Concha Velasco - El Águila de Fuego

It's exactly the sort of thing we get up to when we're on holiday.