Did you listen to a lot of music as a teenager? Did you have a stereo, radio, cd player or reel to reel? Who was your favorite music artist? Favorite song? Which one still moves you today?

I seem to remember listening to the portable radio my mother gave me to take to boarding school. It was the hot 60's and the Beatles were BIG!!!!!. Hermans Hermits, Cilla Black, Manfred Mann, Rolling Stones (Mum would not have approved of them), Gerry and the Pacemakers, Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, The Troggs, The Kinks, and that really "deep and meaningful" song - 'The House Of The Rising Sun' by the Animals. We all thought it was really a cool song.

I can remember singing along to this in my blue 'shift' over a black turtle neck jumper, thick black stockings and my beatle haircut.

Goodness, the worst part is that I still listen to 60's music, on now they are copied onto my computer so I listen as I write in my blog. (Then it was writing into my secret diary).

Someone last night commented about the Mouseketeers - I remeber Annette Funicello, and I think there was one called Bobby - anyone remember the others?

I have finally saved up to buy a macro lens for my Cannon EOS 400D (Rebel XTi). so of course my photo tonight is of a flower's stamens.