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12.23.07

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LAST UPDATED 1/12/201

Too much to say here. I love Life!! The ups more than the downs! who doesn't?

Among the "ups" are gardening, now my work since I turned 40. "The Blues,"soundtrack of my youth and ever advancing middle age. ( I saw Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970!!) Glasses that are full, half full or quarter full but not empty. Animals, anything that has a natural expression. The best "up" is being a parent and grandparent. Included in the "UP" zone is the satisfaction of a job well done. That includes a day off during which I have 'done' nothing except indulge. (Music, maybe a drink or two, a walk or even a trip to a museum!)

Currently - waiting for Summer- seem to have missed Spring totally, what a Bummer!!

Summer arrives next Thursday, 1st May, That's official.

Don't forget you heard it here first!!

OK so Summer arrived! Too bad that it rained again!! Looking forward to yet another Holiday weekend-NOT!!

OH Yesssss, the Sun has come at last. The long days of winter behind us. Just another few minutes daylight each day but what a difference.

Ain't Nature great??

As May ends I am suffering from Groundhog Day syndrome!!

Another Holiday weekend and Summer has done a runner!! It is chucking it down. I mean raining - too hard!!

Oh well Summer was great for the eight days it was here. Here's looking forward to next year!!

Have just looked through my old files - real film!!

Added a few more pics for fun. There is a theme building , don't ask me as I haven't thought of one yet.

Jango have sort of fixed - then unfixed the 'my music section' on my profile!! You will still have to look at my stations for the real deal!! (or my pictures if your sound card is broken lol)

I don't think many people read this far but thanks to those who do!!

Almost won last week, great game but tired after a lot of running just to stand still !!

Next week is full of promise. Family wedding in a moated medieval manor house- here's hoping the sun comes back in time for that.

The Wedding was superb!!

Rain stayed away and we all partied hard into the early hours. Too much in my case and I begin this week wondering if I will make it to Friday in one piece!!

Thank you all for your kind wishes. Emma (our niece) and her Husband Elliott, start their new life together in Australia on Wednesday!! Good luck and happiness to them.

Another busy week, this time trying to find a submarine to use as a works truck!! We have had a tad more rain than we wanted this week (be careful what you wish for!!)

Anyway chores done, off to a party tonight, haven't got a thing to wear and only one day to recover!! Oh dear looks like another of my 9 lives gone!! Oops seem to have run out of lives.

That was the week that was. Just about made it to Friday. Have to do some serious recharging of batteries for the next day or so.

I had an uncontrollable urge to create some Psychedelic Art this week. Just as I did way back then. I guess you either love it or hate it - was the same then. Anyway I have posted the results ( following the Clematis meets Warhol episode) Hope you enjoy (or dislike it) as much as you may have then. (It is good to have an inanimate object to focus your thoughts on!! lol)

Summer departed almost as soon as it arrived. leaving a hot and sticky deposit in it's wake! (Me) A week of triumph and disaster. My PC has been behaving like and unruly 3 year old and Billy Gate's wonderful product has given up all reason and has tried and succeeded to tie my mind in knots!! I have survived the onslaught ( as all good gardeners do) to emerge a tad wiser and several hours of sleep denied. To the weekend I go with weary tread. Determined to enjoy it even if it is raining like a monsoon with all the extras added!!

Some of you UK Jangoistas may remember TW3 (That was the week that was)

Well I have just had a week of - TW3 WWW ( that was the week that was - wet wherever I went!!)

I now have to admit I did see rain on St Swithun's Day. Not much so I thought it wouldn't count. I was so wrong!!

Anyway - week survived, PC problems down to a dull roar and a low Broadband speed - at least I have a connection.

So, to the weekend I trip in my muddy boots, giving a care - no I don't think so!

I am reminded of the days in my youth when rain just meant more puddles to play in!! I have done the puddles, now I am going to do the adult thing and listen to Jango - not all the time but most of it. (I'm a tad tired of being wet through) then when I get bored with that I plan to finish an incomplete task - this week's paperwork!! (There seems to be a downside to everything this week)

Wow that was a real blast!! The week where everything that happened was totally spontaneous! Starting with a slipped disc, (done by overenthusiastic manipulation of a dumper bucket that was still half full!!) and running through the gamut of working in yet more rain, early autumn flush ( grass and weed growth about 6 weeks before it was due) and ending on one of the best summer days I have had in about 3 months!!

Back is now healed ( great Physio!) Brain still working (just) and looking forward to a couple of days hard graft sorting out my own garden.

To those of you that heard about my 'slipped disc' and sent sympathy and hugs - thank you - I'm sure your good wishes helped in the healing process.

Thanks again for all this weeks shouts and mails. You Jangoistas are too much!! Spent a little time doing some more 'ART' pictures. Posted the best for you all to love or hate as you wish.

TGIF!!

I will not bore you with this weeks fun and games - suffice to say I am just so happy to be able to type this. Disappearing friends were the only gripe, the rest was probably all in my imagination ,except I lost the sleep to prove it!!

Have a great weekend, whatever you may be doing, enjoy your leisure (or work if you have to) just remember we are here but a very short time. ENJOY!!

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had a short trip to the sea - wow - simply the best time. won't bore you with the details but I actually caught the sun!! - Anyway batteries recharged - modem still on back order. back better and 'man flu' over with. Just as pile of work then a week of total absence HOLIDAY!!

PEACE and LOVE to you all.

Best as always,

Chris (the 'ready for his jollies' gardener)

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Since then - my world is reflected in my 'pictures' Jango updates and new software aside - a very busy and hectic end to the year.

You will see I don't agree with the 'jango upgrade' but then who does agree with change?? Still here - still gardening - still enjoying the 'much interrupted version of Jango. many thanks to all you Jangoistas who have kept this site a haven of enjoyment!! Peace love and 'BRING THE OLD JANGO BACK' to you all. CtG x

Birthday update - Thanks to all who sent birthday greetings - I had a really relaxing day - which was unexpected. Jango has lost a lot of the atmosphere it once had. I haven't given up hope that it will get better - the only thing that keeps it going is the real friendships that have been forged amongst the wider community.

To all my Jango friends - thanks for being there for me - and here's to the next year and beyond. Peace and love to you all. CtG x

(- Last updated 12th April 2009)

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I have just had a dreadful thought - it is the beginning of July, and I haven't a clue where the last six months have gone!! Is this a form of pre senile dementia??

As I sit here - the rain pounding on the kitchen roof I know where I am - and what day it is - but I have no idea what happened to those six months!! Ah well they say 'time flies' and they are right - whoever 'they' are.

Hope that the new jango gets fixed soon - it would make life a tad more enjoyable - perhaps that is the reason that the last six months have disappeared - the jugglers have been meddlin' with the space time continuum!!

Love and peace to you all. CtG xx

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Happy New Year to you all

Cheers, CtG™

(starting my third year on here! Must've been at the cookin' sherry! LOL)

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Sadly,the end is nigh!!

This spell of bad weather has all but killed my business - the wolves are at the door!!

Was hoping to survive but reckon this might just be the end of the line for CtG!

So I will have to be content with being just plain ol' Chris.

Cheers,

CtG™(for the time bein' LOL)

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Patterns in life - the story of Gong ( and CtG™ if you change some of the words- LOL)

Gong slowly came together in the late '60s when Australian guitarist David Allen (ex-Soft Machine) began making music with his wife, singer Gilli Smyth, along with a shifting lineup of supporting musicians. Albums from this period include Magick Brother, Mystic Sister (1969) and the impromptu jam session Bananamoon (1971) featuring Robert Wyatt from the Soft Machine, Gary Wright from Spooky Tooth, and Maggie Bell. A steady lineup featuring Frenchman Didier Malherbe (sax and reeds), Christian Tritsch (bass), and Pip Pyle (drums) along with Allen (glissando guitar, vocals) and Gilli Smyth (space whisper vocals) was officially named Gong and released Camembert Electrique in late 1971, as well as providing the soundtrack to the film Continental Circus and music for the album Obsolete by French poet Dashiel Hedayat.

Camembert Electrique contained the first signs of the band's mythology of the peaceful Planet Gong populated by Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and Octave Doctors. These characters along with Zero the Hero are the focus of Gong's next three albums, the Radio Gnome Trilogy, consisting of Flying Teapot (1973), Angel's Egg (1974), and You (1975). On these albums, protagonist Zero the Hero is a space traveler from Earth who gets lost and finds the Planet Gong, is taught the ways of that world by the gnomes, pixies, and Octave Doctors and is sent back to Earth to spread the word about this mystical planet. The band themselves adopted nicknames -- Allen was Bert Camembert or the Dingo Virgin, Smyth was Shakti Yoni, Malherbe was Bloomdido Bad de Grasse, Tritsch was the Submarine Captain and Pyle the Heap. Over the course of the trilogy, Tritsch and Pyle left and were replaced by Mike Howlett (bass) and Pierre Moerlen (drums). New members Steve Hillage (guitar) and Tim Blake (synthesizers) joined.

After CtG™, Allen, Hillage, and Smyth left the group due to creative differences as well as fatigue. Guitarist Allen Holdsworth joined and the band drifted into virtuosic if unimaginative jazz fusion. Hillage and Allen each released several solo albums and Smyth formed Mothergong. Nevertheless the trilogy lineup has reunited for a few one-off concerts including a 1977 French concert documented on the excellent Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong album. Allen also reunited with Malherbe and Pyle as well as other musicians he had collaborated with over the years for 1992's Shapeshifter album. Hillage also worked as the ambient-techno alias System 7. A number of Gong-related bands have existed over the years, including Mothergong, Gongzilla, Pierre Moerlin's Gong, NY Gong, Planet Gong, and Gongmaison. During the new millennium Gong material continued to be released.

I am a new Gardener and will appear in 2010 from somewhere in the universe!!

Here's to reincarnation!!

CtG™ 2010

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So the first of many reincarnations has begun!

The Whacky Spannerman came to light on viewing the many modified spanners in my toolbox!

There are just so many nuts to tighten that need special spanners. The world, it appears, is full of slack nuts.

The following ditty describes some new found skills:

The Whacky Spannerman (to the tune of the candy man)

Who can take tomorrow

Dip it in a dream

Separate the sorrow and collect up all the joy?

The Whacky Spannerman,

(Refrain)

The Whacky Spannerman can

The Whacky Spannerman can

'Cause he mixes it with love

And makes the world feel good!

So to all you Jangoistas who need their nuts tightened,

Best wishes,

CtG™ aka The 'Whacky™' Spannerman

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Well - what a week - the sun daned us with it's presence - and the temperature was truly Springlike.

Pine cones cracking open, birdsong, and life was good.

Then it happened - another birthday - oh boy what a way to remind us that time always flies fast when your having fun!

Many heartfelt thanks to all who sent Birthday wishes - this is now my Heinz year - and I intend to have as much variety as possible - here's hopin'!!

So to all you lovely jangoistas - may your passions burn strong and your tender moments make great memories.

Cheers,

CtG™ aka The 'Whacky™' Spannerman

People, they fascinate me. Plants and their amazing instinct to survive. They haven't gone nuclear yet!

MUSIC. Since my early days and a stint or two with local Rock/R&B bands in the sixties.(The Loopy Sax Player!)

Live Theatre. from Shakespeare to Pantomime.

A game of Rugby Football, Cricket, squash or tennis. (nowadays only to watch. (I have the 'T' shirt the video and the memories of the trips to hospital!!)

The Female of the Species. Much to my cost, joy and sadness. (Currently Sadness)

Travel and all the places, people, culture and language that I can get my brain around. (It varies, sometimes a lot, other times not very much but still fun!!)

JANGO great music and stimulating out of sync messaging!!

As above - but if I must, History Channel, Discovery and anything that explains how we got where we are.

Some - but really I don't like to spend too much time indoors. - unless it is raining hard and it is a Sunday afternoon!!

Dennis Wheatly, Patricia Cornwell, I am still reading a book on the marvels of underground London that I started two years ago. ( too much time outdoors)

Finally finished this on the 30/04/2008!!

Currently looking for the next 2 year read something short and not too intellectually challenging! Ha Ha!