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The England coach Eddie Jones spouts garbage in the media all the time.I love it when his teams get beaten.  Of  course I like the Welsh coach Warren Gatland because he is a good kiwi.   Gatland has also done a great job as head coach with the British and Irish Lions on their tours. You Welsh are one of our favourite Rugby brothers. Later on today Easybeat and I will have a pint in your honour. Yechyd da...Kia ora to you my good friend

Excellent portrait  Bill. I love Ludwig van Beethoven music my Maree has a small copy of a painting of him as boy hanging on our wall.   The last decade of his life he was almost completely deaf  Though deaf some of his.most admired works come from the last  years of his life. Now if I could get a thousand Deaf Beethoven's in a room to listen to my music there would be hope for me. Most probably they would need a conductor or someone using sign language on stage to tell them when to clap. I wouldn't produce a music chart for my thousand Beethoven's as it might ruin my chance of success.

Sometimes I think  the  harmony and music that  talks to me, and pulls at my heart, those  tunes of my youth are some sort of prehistoric monster waiting to be discovered by an Archaeologist.

Dirty Ed thank you for introducing me to Wallace McRae. I loved the way he did Reincarnation on that link. I have just looked up Baxter Black on youtube another new one for me and have enjoyed watching him also. Here is a one that i have just seen of Baxter Black which I enjoyed. DE you have expanded my horizons on poetry as down here in little old NZ we don't get to hear many cowboy poems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzC3_5nv8E

I  am with you Jandle it would be great to hear from Ricky jack a top player and singer

Sorry Topdown  I didn't mean to break the rules. Good man for putting my post right.
Thank you.
Peatle

Deadeye soundcloud had moved your song down the list so Jet60 link came up showing your song as deleted. Here is a new link to it.
https://soundcloud.com/eadeye/nothing-l … e-throttle

Neo your an interesting character.

Sorry Jandle it is your forum and I can see that  I should not have have responded to you and other  people talking about their situations in the way I did. Please  accept my appologies. I will endevour to keep these thoughts of mine for the chat section.

Zurf I;like the  relaxed way you do songs and pacy guitar playing and your vocals work a treat on Mephis In The Meantime.

Zurf  said I guess what I'm saying is that what some elder care agencies see as abuse and neglect, some elderly and their families see as independence and liberty. The world could do with a lot more patience and a lot less making decisions for others without knowing a darned thing about them.

Zurf you are absolutly right what you said there. I have a lot of elderly friends many over the age of eighty who belong to a group called Grey Power who battle bureaucrats and politicians  advocating for the independence and respect older people deserve.  Grey Power is an advocacy organisation promoting the welfare and well-being of all those citizens in the 50 plus age group.  They monitor what the government is doing and how that will affect their  members – meeting with influential people including politicians, to make their views known.
Grey Power is dedicated to the welfare, interests and concerns of the many people who are over 50 years and is a neutral but assertive voice of influence in the political arena with no party political affiliation.
I spend alot of time with my ninety seven year old mother the thing I hear often from her friends is they feel their family have no time for them. I was a   member of the RSA for many years the Return Services Association.  I would visit many who ended up in  hospital. I was  struck  by how many families couldnt find the time  to suport  their own family members and that shocked me. When some of these people died their families were quick to get to the lawyers and fight over the will. I went to funeral  a couple  of weeks back  for a friend of mine who was single and whose only brother and neice and nephew turned up at the service. I was approached to help with arranging the funeral as none of his family werent interested.  With a couple of his other friends a service was arranged  that we thought would be appropriate . His family  approached me after the service.   They told me they  hadn't seen the deceased for twenty nine years and only came to see if  any of his friends knew if he had left them  anything in a will. It hit home to me again  not all families spend time or care for each other and it is not always anyones fault.  It is just how some family circumstances turn out. Also I have seen the otherside  organisation putting the elderly where they don't want to be or their families want them to be without any consideration for the person's own wishes.. In other words getting involved when there is not the need. I got very sick last year and I am still recovering. If it wasn't for my friends and family I would have ended up having some of my independence and liberty  taken away from me. You are perfectly  right to think the way you do about these things with your experience in this area. of life. I hope there are many more who are having a good discussion about these things.