Monday, 28 January 2019

January. Sick and Tired, You've Been Hanging on Me

Pilate
The January Man, if we're to believe the song, 'walks abroad in woolen coat and boots of leather'. I'm not sure about that; but what has been a horrible month (God, I hate January) is, thankfully, nearly at an end.

I can almost see the distant uplands of spring - if not around the next corner, then maybe the one after that. I live in hope, as Barrington Womble once said.

And what better Long Song for the last Monday of this unfeasibly long month. Well, the clue is in today's title. That's right, Pilot.

Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot (2000)

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9 comments:

  1. C28 January 2019 at 11:18

    I'm no fan of January either. Not overly keen on February either. Sorry about the eithers!
    So desperate for Spring now...

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    1. John Medd28 January 2019 at 11:32

      I went to Lanzarote before Christmas. I wish I hadn't come back.

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    2. C28 January 2019 at 12:52

      I can understand that! I just had a totally random out-of-the blue invitation to join a friend on trip to Gran Canaria in a few weeks' time - but the timing is out of the question for me work-wise. And my passport has expired! But now I can't stop fantasising about warm sunshine!

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    3. The Swede29 January 2019 at 11:38

      My passport expired five years ago, but if it hadn't I might very well have run for the hills by now. Splendid choice John.

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  2. John Medd29 January 2019 at 12:53

    C/TS - You know what I'm going to say to you both, don't you? RENEW YOUR PASSPORTS! You never know when you might need them. Well, actually, C does!

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  3. Alyson29 January 2019 at 20:59

    Was expecting something else when I saw the title, but then that was the point I suppose - The pilot/pilate point (great pick of Palin).

    Hate January but February next week. When I wrote my Wheel of the Year posts (before I moved on to moons), I discovered the 1st of Feb in the pagan calendar was Imbolc or Ewe's milk. All white symbolism like snowdrops and St Bride. For them the 1st Feb was the start of Spring and looking at everything that's growing in my garden at the moment I'm going to roll with that definition.


    Talking of passports, do we now need new ones? You'll be ok being half Irish I expect. Going to have to inspect the family tree and see what I can come up with.

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    1. John Medd30 January 2019 at 21:59

      I was tempted to write about Pilot when I learned that after 'the glory years' they essentially became Alan Parsons' backing band - the Project, if you will; and God knows they had enough 10+ minute tracks to carry an entire series of Monday Long Song on their own.

      I love it when February arrives, I really do. I start to feel human again. I do January on auto-pilot. Oh God, said it again.

      Passports - I won't lower the tone and repeat Phil Lynott's quip about having some Irish in you, suffice it to say that whichever way Br*xit goes I hope the road still rises up to meet me.

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  4. Alyson29 January 2019 at 21:04

    Of course that should have been pic of Palin (was rolling with the alliteration but got carried away).


    Mike Harding is a friends of Mr WIAA's family and at his cousin's wedding, he and a few others started a wee jamming session in another room. Needless to say, the guests all headed through to watch and the wedding band was kind of ignored.

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    1. John Medd30 January 2019 at 22:02

      MH always comes across as being a thoroughly likeable fella. I'd love to jam with him.

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