It's important to educate your kids properly, Psychomenagerie.
Trouble is, it'll cost you a lot more to go to gigs in future. ;p

My two lads have accompanied me a couple of times when I can crash on THEIR floors and have been heard humming some of the music days later.... and one suddenly came out with "Come on Barry .. Come on Barry" at a completely random moment Classic!
Eeee it makes a mother proud

OMG as our kids, well daughter, like to say that remark about "Come on Barry...come on Barry" genuinely made me laugh out loud; I nearly spat my cuppa all over the keyboard. In moments of stress, I will now mutter those immortal words

Oh well, back to faffing around on the computer, thankfully, it's not a laptop, I could have fused the thing and cut Steve off in his prime (All Men Are Hungry - beautiful).

All good things,

Becky x

x jo

Really looking forward to the Scunthorpe show tonight !!!

psychomenagerie wrote:
ah reading this did make me smile All my children now have great taste in Music and listen to a varied variety.

Any one of them would go to see Steve Harley at a drop of a Hat now ( in the past I've dragged them along kicking and screaming ! but its done ! they all appreciate Fine Music now and recognise musical artistry at its best. James my eldest is always saying he'd like to see Steve and the Band again.
"I'd like to take Dave to see him mum" one of my boys friends
" maybe I could come with you next time mummsey ?" he'd say

most of last week I had Robyn my granddaughter with me ( half term )
and we did a lot of running around in the car up and down the M1 and A5 back and forth to Nanny's cottage and Mummy's house so bless her she had to listen to the Birmingham CDs and the two originals loaded up in the car.

she also actually sat and watched some of the DVD .( even though she's a Sponge Bob Square pants addict ! )

It made me smile when on one of our return trips CD 2 of Birmingham finished playing in the car and the original studio version of psychomodo began to follow.
( we were chatting anyway about Steve Harley because she knew Nanny wasn't going to be around all week end and some special friends from a long way away were coming to stay and see Steve Harley with Nanny )
she came out with some sweet observation's while were spending time together
one of them being when the Cds changed over from 2013 to 1974

" Is this when Steve Harley was younger Nanny ? "
I said yes darling
Robyn replies
" Hmmmmm! how old was he ? "

I've looked at her and said ! well younger than your mummy or uncle Dean Robs , ( Victoria & Dean are 25 & 26 ) he's about 22 - 23 Robyn, just a year or 2 older than Auntie Jess ( so she could relate ! )

" Oh " she says

I'm waiting for something ? what's she gonna come out with next ?

"
+Nanny is he as old as you ?
" No darling!"

So I had go through all the stories of how old nanny was and why after all these years I'm still as excited as a kid at Christmas when I'm going to see him and meet up with all the special friends.

she sat and contemplated ! swished her bedraggled blonde locks that hung uncombed over her face and peered through it at me with her pale blue eyes ( when she's with nanny she's a bit of a tom boy, never lets me comb it through with out a fight ! so we leave it sometimes )

" Nanny ? Can I come and see him with you too ? "
"I liked him when he was young Nanny "
" But I like him now too "
I smiled aw bless !
" You cant come this time Robyn. but next time , maybe when he plays out doors in the summer we can go camping and see him "

( I've been promising her we'd do the Tent and fox's in the dead of night under the moonlight thing for over 3 years now, you know the whole camping thing )

her little face ,

"but I want to see him too nanny "

"Not this time Robyn "

but nanny promises I will take you soon! not this year but maybe next.

she seemed to except the fact that she wouldn't be going to see Steve Harley for a while and her little mind switched to Christmas !