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The great reveal: Songs and music references in the series Two weeks in Lisbon
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Regular readers know that most entries in this blog contain sometimes direct and sometimes indirect, sometimes for obvious and sometime for obscure reasons, references to songs and pieces of music. Beginning in 2022, I began to collect, identify, explain and …
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Monday, Monday (4)
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It took me a few minutes to identify what felt different about this Monday morning. It wasn’t the weather which was again gray – though the forecast predicted a break in the gloom for early afternoon. As I wiped the …
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Sunday Rain (6)
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Even though I’d tried to walk off last night’s dinner, the combination of perhaps one glass of port too many, dark clouds, and rain on a Sunday morning coming down kept me in bed later than I’d been on any …
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Saturday – Paint the Town with rain (3)
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It was long after midnight but Saturday’s morning skies had turned as gloomy as the forecast had indicated they would. The predicted rain had yet to start and since several weather forecasts in Lisbon had been generally as inaccurate as …
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It’s Friday and It’s a Beautiful Morning (4)
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Freedom is one of the joys of my retirement. Even without three little birds pitched by my doorstep I woke up this morning with the rising sun, the promise of a glorious Friday and with nothing on my calendar. As …
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