tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41746910778752244942024-03-14T06:18:46.603+00:00Seven Days InRuminations on the state of music , bands , technology , town and country and anything else that takes my fancyMikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.comBlogger2544125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-2258729262916404012024-03-10T11:03:00.002+00:002024-03-10T11:03:50.441+00:00Pies<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WZU516GI3Ac" width="609" youtube-src-id="WZU516GI3Ac"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3>
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<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8035237233366487183" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 950px;"><p></p><p>This is only the third post of 2024. Just back from holiday in Alnwick, my weight has gone up by 0.7Kg which is not too bad after a holiday.</p><p>This morning I nicked myself shaving and have gone through three plasters, there was a lot of llood.</p><p>I have finished <a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> and am now picking up <a href="https://amzn.to/3IvZwgI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Pie At Night" </a>which covers a similar area slightly differently. I suppose the title caught my attention because of finally finishing <a href="https://amzn.to/48PRFFF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Supernatural".</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have also started <a href="https://amzn.to/3IvDQRX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Carol" </a>by <a href="https://amzn.to/43ftHlR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patricia Highsmith</a>, a recommendation from my work LGBT+ bookclub, so I will have two on the go, and that is not a bad thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is also an excellent writer and DJ and worth checking out in print or on the </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BBC.</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><p>The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/43ryG3f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Carry On Wayward Son" </a>by <a href="https://amzn.to/3VaPv08" target="_blank">Kansas</a></p><h1 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p></p><ol><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer and this is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/writelesplaymore/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">her Instagram</a></span></li></ol></div>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-80352372333664871832024-02-07T11:06:00.002+00:002024-02-07T11:06:09.117+00:00I Predict A Riot<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="306" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lU4ke34dKWo" width="586" youtube-src-id="lU4ke34dKWo"></iframe></div><br /> <p>
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</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This is the second post of 2024</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> is excellent, moving slowly across the north and reaching Leeds and a lot about Tony Wilson. The Kaiser Chiefs "I Predict A Riot" has become an anthem for the north.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Two hundred and twenyt pages in I will probably be finished by the end of March</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is also an excellent writer and DJ and worth checking out in print or on the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BBC.</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/3HOW54j" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"I Predict A Riot"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3urlCxv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Kaiser Chiefs.</a></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer and this is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/writelesplaymore/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">her Instagram</a></span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-53251675687078190582024-01-05T15:44:00.002+00:002024-01-05T15:44:44.209+00:00Three Graces<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="348" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vcl5AWgHpoY" width="585" youtube-src-id="vcl5AWgHpoY"></iframe></div><br /><p>
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</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This is the first post of 2024</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> is excellent moving slowly north and reaching Liverpool and the Three Graces (they wanted four but the final one was rejected, if you want to know why read the book)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So eighty pages in I will probably be finished in less than six months.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is also an excellent writer and DJ and worth checking out in print or on the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BBC.</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0C4X556HM&asins=B0C4X556HM&linkId=b52578a03d4dbb4fe5abb58e804f1b7b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The music is "Heart As Big As Liverpool" by <a href="https://amzn.to/47ovrtn" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Pete Wylie </a>.</p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-5600997802224442582023-12-31T09:32:00.001+00:002023-12-31T09:32:16.136+00:00Scally, Scally Pride Of Our Alley<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="413" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AMyE7PAvstM" width="611" youtube-src-id="AMyE7PAvstM"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><meta content="90; URL=https://vocal.media/beat/michael-moorcock-his-collaborations-with-hawkwind-and-the-blue-oeyster-cult?via=mike" http-equiv="refresh"><p>This is the final blog post of 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"> is an excellent read and I have reached chapter three, whose title I have chosen for this post. The writing, for me, is excellent and I can't skim-read it for fear of missing something. I must admit that <a href="https://amzn.to/47kJfp1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Douglas Adams</a>' <a href="https://amzn.to/3tCq2kM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Mostly Harmless"</a> had me skim-reading.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;">Anyway, Stuart has taken us through Crewe, Warrington and Wigan and explained the difference between Rugby League and rugby Union.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;">So sixty pages in I will probably be finished in less than six months.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is also an excellent writer and DJ and worth checking out in print or on the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BBC.</a> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0C4X556HM&asins=B0C4X556HM&linkId=b52578a03d4dbb4fe5abb58e804f1b7b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/47ejXbT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Long Tall Scally"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/47ovrtn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pete Wylie </a>as I found the <a href="https://amzn.to/47j3nb3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gerry Monroe</a> song from which the title was stolen (Sally not Scally) still makes my blood run cold.</p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-34688476724698992682023-12-27T06:28:00.001+00:002023-12-27T06:28:27.300+00:00Two Pages At A Time<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="419" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uErKI0zWgjg" width="585" youtube-src-id="uErKI0zWgjg"></iframe></div><br /><p>
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</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am generally reading <a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a> two pages at a time. This is because it contains so much interesting stuff like <a href="https://amzn.to/3H4ccup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Port Vale</a> is the only football league club not named after a place, it's named after Port Vale House where the club was instigated and <a href="https://amzn.to/41CqfRs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robbie Williams</a> is a huge fan.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He is an excellent writer and DJ too and is worth checking out in print or on the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BBC.</a> I was worried that it was a book with no chapters but I have reached Chapter Two.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Again I thought this would be a difficult read but it is not, at two pages at a time it will take me six months to finish, but we shall see.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0C4X556HM&asins=B0C4X556HM&linkId=b52578a03d4dbb4fe5abb58e804f1b7b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/4aBZiBG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"One Piece At A Time"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3TG7afs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Johnny Cash </a>cos it sounds like Two Pages At A Time</p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK54.9843024 -1.660280726.674068563821152 -36.8165307 83.294536236178843 33.4959693tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-14147258550682357522023-12-25T23:53:00.002+00:002023-12-25T23:53:47.557+00:00A Few More Pies With Prejudice<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="485" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AB2sQTbUG4s" width="584" youtube-src-id="AB2sQTbUG4s"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">about him returning north. He is an excellent writer and DJ too and is worth checking out in print or on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BBC.</a> I was worried that it was a book with no chapters but I just reached Chapter 2.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Again I thought this would be a difficult read but it is not, but I can see it taking me all of January to finish as it has 352 pages.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0C4X556HM&asins=B0C4X556HM&linkId=b52578a03d4dbb4fe5abb58e804f1b7b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/4aBq2lw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"London"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/41yzMZT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thea Gilmore </a>and <a href="https://amzn.to/3GY7D4S" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sandy Denny</a></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-26589756871987205682023-12-14T08:53:00.001+00:002023-12-14T08:59:56.418+00:00Pies and Prejudice<p><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="459" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/39WxCT4U4Vk" width="551" youtube-src-id="39WxCT4U4Vk"></iframe></div><p>
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</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Finally <span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Mostly Harmless"</a> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;">(#5 in </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;">a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writing) is finished. This has been the most difficult book for me in the series. It is readable but sort of fizzles out although it jumps around a bit.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I wasn't too sure where to go next but settled on <a href="https://amzn.to/3t8a5ml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Pies and Prejudice"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/48hUIqk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stuart Maconie</a> about him returning north. He is an excellent writer and DJ too and is worth checking out in print or on the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BBC.</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One of the good things about this blog is that it seems to continually unearth interesting pieces that I can then share on Vocal. Does that make me lazy? Maybe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0C4X556HM&asins=B0C4X556HM&linkId=b52578a03d4dbb4fe5abb58e804f1b7b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The music I have included is <a href="https://amzn.to/3GJotV8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Ohio"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/41lsgRW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Isley Brothers</a> from the album <a href="https://amzn.to/47UtmXb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Givin' It Back"</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-72276376999804732962023-11-30T10:47:00.002+00:002023-11-30T10:47:55.970+00:00Not As Harmless As I Thought<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="531" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y4lOlydXPGQ" width="640" youtube-src-id="Y4lOlydXPGQ"></iframe></div><br />
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<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Mostly Harmless"</a> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">(#5 in </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writing) is the final installment and I think the longest one. This has been the most difficult book for me in the series. It is readable but I still have forty pages to go, and can't seem to read more than four pages at a time so it is going to slip into December no doubt.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure where I will go next but if you follow this blog and I can be bothered to share, then you will find out.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One of the good things about this blog is that it seems to continually unearth interesting pieces that I can then share on Vocal. Does that make me lazy? Maybe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down and for the last two months has had three thousand visits each month.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0B8RG8HYK&asins=B0B8RG8HYK&linkId=f107f9f189725a259cf4418b8893fd39&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/47TLjEV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Werewolves of London"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/47sh0FH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Warren Zevon</a> because that is what is on the player at the moment</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-16591897907170500552023-11-02T13:52:00.002+00:002023-11-02T13:53:17.648+00:00Cheap Velux Windows<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TFl4AemxH4g" width="634" youtube-src-id="TFl4AemxH4g"></iframe></div><br /><p>
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</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Mostly Harmless"</a> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">(#5 in </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writing) is the final installment and I think the longest one and still enjoyable though not really going anywhere but being continually self-referencing but still enjoyable for all that.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The title has nothing to do with the post, but I thought I would just try to confuse peope.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure where I will go next but if you follow this blog and I can be bothered to share, then you will find out.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One of the good things about this blog is that it seems to continually unearth interesting pieces that I can then share on Vocal. Does that make me lazy? Maybe.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down and for the last two months has had three thousand visits each month.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0B8RG8HYK&asins=B0B8RG8HYK&linkId=f107f9f189725a259cf4418b8893fd39&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is<a href="https://amzn.to/45VV83Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff9900;"> </span>"Planet of Sound"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3QGg9Ls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Pixies</a>, cos well why not.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-44937291417825567812023-10-28T08:46:00.001+01:002023-10-28T08:46:16.390+01:00Mostly Harmless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m4gaScRDtts" width="624" youtube-src-id="m4gaScRDtts"></iframe></div><br /><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">
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<a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"</a> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">(#4 in </span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writing) is over and done with so now I am on with <a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Mostly Harmless"</a>. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> in my opinion seemed to lose its way but is the shortest book in the series, and it is by Douglas Adams so it is still an enjoyable read, but I am now on the final straight.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down and for the last two months has had three thousand visits each month.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book of my poetry there is one on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0B8RG8HYK&asins=B0B8RG8HYK&linkId=f107f9f189725a259cf4418b8893fd39&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is<a href="https://amzn.to/3YQzGvh" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://amzn.to/3Mj3RGq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Vicious"</a> from <a href="https://amzn.to/3Mj3RGq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Transformer"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/45Qlvbi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lou Reed </a>one of my favourite songs of his and sort of appropriate as this post is only "Mostly Harmless"</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-47703208895099854192023-10-07T00:12:00.004+01:002023-10-07T00:12:45.649+01:00Fish<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jF4jERvSg9I?si=is6lAq8js3paYicN" title="YouTube video player" width="960"></iframe></center><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3P4f5PL" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"Life The Universe, And Everything "</a> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">(#3 in </span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writing) is over and done with so now I am on with <a href="https://amzn.to/45pqtf0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"</a> and it moseys along in the same sort of fashion, but is an easy enjoyable read, but the last book did go on about Cricket.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down but 646 visits today is more than ok.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0B8RG8HYK&asins=B0B8RG8HYK&linkId=f107f9f189725a259cf4418b8893fd39&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is<a href="https://amzn.to/3YQzGvh" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://amzn.to/3Q4zgyK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Salmon Song"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3Q5HUNb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Hillage </a>from <a href="https://amzn.to/3Q4zgyK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Fish Rising"</a> sort of appropriate.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-42788356854334677822023-09-07T08:13:00.002+01:002023-09-07T08:13:55.506+01:00Everything<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="476" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qzE_pGJT77w" width="573" youtube-src-id="qzE_pGJT77w"></iframe></div><br />
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Earth has been repopulated and we are descended from Middle Management</span></p><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down to ten visits yesterday and five today.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is<a href="https://amzn.to/3YQzGvh" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://amzn.to/3LcXKmD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Hoppipolla" </a>by <a href="https://amzn.to/3PboXqX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sigur Ros</a> which was used for David Attenborough's <a href="https://amzn.to/4885ccC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Planet Earth"</a>, sort of appropriate.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-8194321572954277422023-08-21T19:04:00.002+01:002023-08-21T19:11:06.284+01:00The Total Perspective Vortex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="494" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t4JCHGGsOOQ" width="594" youtube-src-id="t4JCHGGsOOQ"></iframe></div><br />
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I am a third if the way through and have rediscovered the Total Perspective Vortex which is the worst torture any sentient being can receive. Zaphod Beeblebrox is subjected to it and comes out as, well, Zaphod.</span></p><p><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 20px;">If you want to know what the TPV is then get yourself a copy of the book.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down to ten visits yesterday and five today.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is<a href="https://amzn.to/3YQzGvh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> "Into The Void"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3OGI385" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Sabbath</a>, sort of appropriate.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-6081673448388379842023-08-10T08:56:00.001+01:002023-08-10T08:56:07.758+01:00Earth v2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="303" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LAn26Jqk_i8" width="665" youtube-src-id="LAn26Jqk_i8"></iframe></div>
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<p><a href="https://amzn.to/3DCemzK" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"</a><span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 20px;"> by </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a>(<span face=""Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 20px;">a trilogy in five parts that combines wit and intelligent writing) is a great read. Earth has been destroyed so the planet builders of Magrathea have been commissioned by the mice (man is only the third most intelligent species on Earth but when you see some politicians you wonder if man is even that high) to create a replacement, a version two.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">I've almost finished this first of the five books in the trilogy.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Seven Days In seemed to be grinding back down to its pre-Christmas number of visits but then it hit eight thousand visits in a day, so I haven't a clue what is happening.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is the appropriately titled <a href="https://amzn.to/3KynlWJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"World Exploding Touch"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/449lX3z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fat Lady Sings</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-32220494359165040572023-08-06T21:46:00.000+01:002023-08-06T21:46:00.402+01:00Orbitting Magrathea On An Infinite Improbability Drive<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="491" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u6Zoezcq1RA" width="591" youtube-src-id="u6Zoezcq1RA"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">I wanted something fun and interesting to read next so have chosen to revisit </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3DCemzK" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">trilogy in five parts which combines wit and intelligent writing. It is a fun and clever read. There is so much in this book full of wacky concepts like the actual book itself, the planet builders of Magrathea and the Infinite Improbability Drive as well as Vogon Poetry.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This is the first of the five books in the trilogy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Seven Days In seems to be grinding back down to its pre-Christmas number of visits with only just over a thousand today.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles from <a href="https://amzn.to/45jgCYu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"One of these Nights"</a> and was the theme to <a href="https://amzn.to/3Yw3pJN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Hitch Hikers' Guide to The Galaxy"</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-26490436476275551852023-08-03T07:04:00.002+01:002023-08-03T07:04:41.053+01:00The Earth Has Been Destroyed<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="529" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lvXH6ycOtzE" width="637" youtube-src-id="lvXH6ycOtzE"></iframe></div><br />
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<p><a href="https://amzn.to/3Qb0yUr" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Great Gatsby"</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">by</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3pR3YkJ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">F Scott Fitzgerald</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">to me, is very American and reminds me a lot of <a href="https://amzn.to/3YaGzHr" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Catcher In The Rye"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3YaGJP3" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">JD Salinger</a>. It's not a terrible novel, but not, in my opinion, great either. The characters were annoying and it addressed the rags-to-riches American dream. I was waiting for something interesting to happen and it sort of did, but I doubt I will be revisiting the book. </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am <a href="https://amzn.to/3KlUyVk" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told the film is good </a>so I may try that at some point. I have watched the film and it is far better to watch than to read the book, so if you get the option watch the film, rather than read the book, it really does look stunning.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I wrote a Vocal story called "The Great Catsby" that you can read below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://vocal.media/petlife/the-great-catsby?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l0hiHt7xDfVfjA1he2jh5Ii2Mt0VITMSDDeEz0xJqORLrSttX4BdL1j35yrPI575rraOwT7sZRj53fCxRWMqy7-RGNwWt0VOeaYFE2tZyFAlYa9hGVfjC5rwrcGqF_P6k5brrcW9WAvVg11d7NjWyqcjmo3y-1a6MCF2NrMnciqlmDZNWvkl55VQNiGn/w443-h443/640fb01278e5fa001d0ab49d.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="443" /></a></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also Leslie West of Mountain was a great guitarist and a very big man and I think he had an album or nickname called <a href="https://amzn.to/46XdzqG" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Great Fatsby"</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">I wanted something fun and interesting to read next so have chosen to revisit <a href="https://amzn.to/3DCemzK" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a>trilogy in five parts which combines wit and intelligent writing. It is a fun and clever read and the Earth has just been destroyed less than fifty pages in. This is a book that you should read, and check out the original radio series and TV series and film, and other Douglas Adams books.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Seven Days In is still increasing its visits, over five thousand yesterday and I don't know why.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxh7VUTcnE9dSqRJP8ICwOYGhGmheL-fAqM0euQJ8mytiYRUXFD3AzYlOr9iZGSB2P5Fkwlh9Lk3VfRvtGTeQPvDgdqfOnhFo3i86892TBMuFRkENXajacV1Q9t87V9IeW31e27PbNLu79QHzFq9QYNMZF_VQsBcw76tawAgXRJxsqIU7ofPIXXr33hDTV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="1043" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxh7VUTcnE9dSqRJP8ICwOYGhGmheL-fAqM0euQJ8mytiYRUXFD3AzYlOr9iZGSB2P5Fkwlh9Lk3VfRvtGTeQPvDgdqfOnhFo3i86892TBMuFRkENXajacV1Q9t87V9IeW31e27PbNLu79QHzFq9QYNMZF_VQsBcw76tawAgXRJxsqIU7ofPIXXr33hDTV=w567-h331" width="567" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is "Sol Caliente" by Quiet Sun and that is on the player at the moment.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-77956387896674633502023-07-30T08:12:00.003+01:002023-07-30T08:12:35.858+01:00The Not So Great Gatsby<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="534" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VbD_kBJc_gI" width="643" youtube-src-id="VbD_kBJc_gI"></iframe></div><br />
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<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have finished </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Qb0yUr" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Great Gatsby"</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">by</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3pR3YkJ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">F Scott Fitzgerald</a> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and to me, it is very American and reminds me a lot of <a href="https://amzn.to/3YaGzHr" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Catcher In The Rye"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3YaGJP3" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">JD Salinger</a>. It's not a terrible novel, but not, in my opinion, great either. The characters were annoying and it addressed the rags-to-riches American dream. I was waiting for something interesting to happen and it sort of did, but I doubt I will be revisiting the book. I am <a href="https://amzn.to/3KlUyVk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">told the film is good </a>so I may try that at some point.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I wrote a Vocal story called "The Great Catsby" that you can read below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://vocal.media/petlife/the-great-catsby?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l0hiHt7xDfVfjA1he2jh5Ii2Mt0VITMSDDeEz0xJqORLrSttX4BdL1j35yrPI575rraOwT7sZRj53fCxRWMqy7-RGNwWt0VOeaYFE2tZyFAlYa9hGVfjC5rwrcGqF_P6k5brrcW9WAvVg11d7NjWyqcjmo3y-1a6MCF2NrMnciqlmDZNWvkl55VQNiGn/w443-h443/640fb01278e5fa001d0ab49d.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="443" /></a></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: start;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also Leslie West of Mountain was a great guitarist and a very big man and I think he had an album or nickname called <a href="https://amzn.to/46XdzqG" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Great Fatsby"</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;">I wanted something fun and interesting to read next so have chosen to revisit <a href="https://amzn.to/3DCemzK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3QlKVJU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Douglas Adams </a>trilogy in five parts which combines wit and intelligent writing.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;">Seven Days In has hit over one hundred thousand visits this month and here are the figures.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT9BiRg80w6m7zQwwIagkE63DQjxhnROkEs55vP8WhouuI-AAVlYyvOj8oKHrs2sTa51Tpwwqh37We22i8NNY6rRKIQBQ9ogmUGid5QKZJqLiu409u177CKV1OmseeBLB7djhlXCldHCD0i783JMFi2fMObggkN2V5YpL4bTYqKEM3D9W6iMa7gknqletY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="837" height="613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT9BiRg80w6m7zQwwIagkE63DQjxhnROkEs55vP8WhouuI-AAVlYyvOj8oKHrs2sTa51Tpwwqh37We22i8NNY6rRKIQBQ9ogmUGid5QKZJqLiu409u177CKV1OmseeBLB7djhlXCldHCD0i783JMFi2fMObggkN2V5YpL4bTYqKEM3D9W6iMa7gknqletY=w591-h613" width="591" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is "Let's Dance" by David Bowie that is on the player at the moment.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: start;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol></div><br /><p></p>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-25108180547769929022023-07-26T13:25:00.002+01:002023-07-26T13:28:27.984+01:00Half Gatsby<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="346" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h62W2ARtwU8" width="638" youtube-src-id="h62W2ARtwU8"></iframe></div>
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<p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am halfway through</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Qb0yUr" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Great Gatsby"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3pR3YkJ" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">F Scott Fitzgerald</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and to me, it is very American and reminds me a lot of <a href="https://amzn.to/3YaGzHr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Catcher In The Rye"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3YaGJP3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JD Salinger</a>. Like that book, I find it boring but oddly captivating, but I am fine knowing that it is fairly short so I know I will finish it this week.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am listening to the <a href="https://amzn.to/3q5KvN6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Butterfield Blues Band</a> who make even the most mundane music more than listenable to the point of being absolutely excellent.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I wrote a Vocal story called "The Great Catsby" that you can read below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://vocal.media/petlife/the-great-catsby?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l0hiHt7xDfVfjA1he2jh5Ii2Mt0VITMSDDeEz0xJqORLrSttX4BdL1j35yrPI575rraOwT7sZRj53fCxRWMqy7-RGNwWt0VOeaYFE2tZyFAlYa9hGVfjC5rwrcGqF_P6k5brrcW9WAvVg11d7NjWyqcjmo3y-1a6MCF2NrMnciqlmDZNWvkl55VQNiGn/w443-h443/640fb01278e5fa001d0ab49d.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="443" /></a></div><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also Leslie West of Mountain was a great guitarist and a very big man and I think he had an album or nickname called <a href="https://amzn.to/46XdzqG" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Great Fatsby"</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is <a href="https://amzn.to/3Kgvhfb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Everythings Gonna Be Alright"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3q5KvN6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Paul Butterfield Blues Band</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-60306745075510941592023-07-22T09:37:00.001+01:002023-07-22T09:41:06.922+01:00The Great Gatsby<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="511" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0l_x0xH9fLM" width="615" youtube-src-id="0l_x0xH9fLM"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have finished <a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a> and it is worrying that charlatans have their hands on the power in the world. It is a book that everyone should read.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I don't know about you but there are so many books in my house that I haven't read and I wanted some fiction and didn't realise that we had <a href="https://amzn.to/3Qb0yUr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Great Gatsby"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3pR3YkJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">F Scott Fitzgerald.</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I wrote a Vocal story called "The Great Catsby" that you can read below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://vocal.media/petlife/the-great-catsby?via=mike" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l0hiHt7xDfVfjA1he2jh5Ii2Mt0VITMSDDeEz0xJqORLrSttX4BdL1j35yrPI575rraOwT7sZRj53fCxRWMqy7-RGNwWt0VOeaYFE2tZyFAlYa9hGVfjC5rwrcGqF_P6k5brrcW9WAvVg11d7NjWyqcjmo3y-1a6MCF2NrMnciqlmDZNWvkl55VQNiGn/w443-h443/640fb01278e5fa001d0ab49d.jpg" width="443" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also Leslie West of Mountain was a great guitarist and a very big man and I think he had an album or nickname called <a href="https://amzn.to/46XdzqG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Great Fatsby"</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is <a href="https://amzn.to/43Cxgkw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Theme From An Imaginary Western"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/43Cxgkw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mountain.</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-36825970792011443522023-07-17T22:24:00.005+01:002023-07-17T22:24:57.630+01:00The Million<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D7f299aNlNg" title="YouTube video player" width="960"></iframe></center><br />
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<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Seven Days In now has had its millionth visit. These are the latest figures. That was sort of unexpected but two hundred thousand visits have occurred in the last two months, and the blog has been going fifteen years.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmFnrPD3TzeaY5jHi0PIVra-pPTvvHrg42W-ahz7yc6GLkc1soQCQY8nf97gBQbUOzy--yGaWkHKjtsuf_T9UEnTJDX0tbwFLpzHjZPcgLOg6nlhmayiv98ZKbpLML4JyGhC-RYgRlRuVl743P6EQ_VPVay_Ccn3OoJDXHJFzrr1RX9lR8WdQRJZMo4CM/s879/Screenshot%202023-07-17%20220955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="869" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDmFnrPD3TzeaY5jHi0PIVra-pPTvvHrg42W-ahz7yc6GLkc1soQCQY8nf97gBQbUOzy--yGaWkHKjtsuf_T9UEnTJDX0tbwFLpzHjZPcgLOg6nlhmayiv98ZKbpLML4JyGhC-RYgRlRuVl743P6EQ_VPVay_Ccn3OoJDXHJFzrr1RX9lR8WdQRJZMo4CM/w577-h584/Screenshot%202023-07-17%20220955.jpg" width="577" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Continuing with </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> and expect to finish this soon. It is worrying that charlatans have their hands on the power in the world.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is,</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Spacehog's "<a href="https://amzn.to/3Q4iYWT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">To Be A Millionaire</a>".</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-37122476707857468802023-07-12T07:06:00.002+01:002023-07-12T07:06:25.809+01:00Monopoly<center><iframe width="960" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/di60NYGu03Y" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Continuing with <a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white;"> and it has remarked on how "The Market" and Money are the new religion. Global companies and money eulogise the "Free Market" and then use their power to become monopolies or cartels to manipulate prices and push the consumer into penury.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white;">Any government that does not facilitate this are attacked to attempt to bring them into line. The UK and USA have certainly been brought into line.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the book the USA continually attacks countries like France, Finland and Sweden for not being in thrall to big money like the "land of the free".</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This book is nearly twenty years old and things have got much worse. Lying and cheating are the norms the further up the money chain you go.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Seven Days In is still getting a good number of reads so I expect it to hit 100K visits this month (it is standing at 41K today) and a million since my first post (It is standing at 980K today) and when that happens I will share it with you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is, appropriately "</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" by the </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Pet Shop Boys,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-38380935767713772112023-07-08T09:35:00.004+01:002023-07-08T09:58:40.611+01:00Highway To Hell<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O7TEkRRC9eE" title="YouTube video player" width="960"></iframe></center><br />
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a><span> </span><span>by</span><span> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a><span> is worrying more as I read it. The evil of Thatcher and Reagan's legacy is destroying our world. The only thing that matters is profit. Everything is designed to line the pockets of financial institutions, corporations and the rich. In the UK Labour is almost indistinguishable from the Conservatives.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There are good people still here but it is getting harder every day for them to have an effect.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This book is nearly twenty years old and things have got much worse. Lying and cheating are the norms the further up the money chain you go.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Seven Days In is still getting a good number of reads so I expect it to hit 100K visits this month and a million since my first post and when that happens I will share it with you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is, appropriately <a href="https://amzn.to/44dMugZ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rick Astley's</a> take on <a href="https://amzn.to/3OeFnjb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Highway To Hell"</a> by<a href="https://amzn.to/3XEPDEh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> AC/DC</a> for a bit of fun.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-36102367564764500532023-07-03T19:37:00.001+01:002023-07-03T19:37:35.331+01:00Send Out The Clowns<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/72_jnIkeCno" title="YouTube video player" width="960"></iframe></center><br />
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<p><a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> worries me more as I read it. Don't get me wrong it is an excellent book, but the remarks on the front say it is hilarious and funny, to the point you expect comedy, but it is genuinely frightening, just going over the fatwa issued on Salman Rushdie and how western governments and religion seemed virtually OK with it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I feel Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Rishi Sunak are treated as jokes and figures of fun when the reality is that the clowns are very dangerous. They are bullies who think they are above the law when they should be behind bars. People defend them, saying what they do is legal, but it is their mates who make the laws and if they don't like them they just ignore them because they are allowed to get away with breaking the law.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is my first post in July and I am hitting three thousand visits a day, so if that keeps up, in theory, I could hit a hundred thousand this month, but we shall see. Last year I did twenty posts, this year I am already up to twenty-six.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Recent posts were usually lucky to get twenty visits but recently they are hitting fifty and the last one is up to seventy-four, so I don't know what is happening.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a>is <a href="https://amzn.to/3rcs5dP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"They Murdered The Clown"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3r8Xvlb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graham Parker,</a> just an amazing song.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-71002065366426011412023-06-29T21:32:00.002+01:002023-06-29T21:32:36.571+01:00A Near Miss (Isn't That A Hit?)<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rc82Qqcyha4" title="YouTube video player" width="960"></iframe></center><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I thought that I might hit a 100K visit by midnight tomorrow, but it looks unlikely. I had over 5K visits yesterday, but today it's just 3K at the moment meaning I would need 6K tomorrow. It might happen but I can see it stalling at 99,999 but that is still an unexpectedly decent achievement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqIBT7EdwpTBzgg-viy9huFH289Aob8-rghZpxWwORx2uGIL4cZU9MOkjh4JjK_Kt7ja0STZffAi0eAhz0mP_43Kj5bvC8-1RA08UU4whjd6dw0_0uTHY5tklFj-h7qTGrS-8AhvZ3iHWT9bj0FoqGDhEwAdolLRnyPoUwkk12moCZvHM9Gbe36gAAdtsC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="932" height="521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqIBT7EdwpTBzgg-viy9huFH289Aob8-rghZpxWwORx2uGIL4cZU9MOkjh4JjK_Kt7ja0STZffAi0eAhz0mP_43Kj5bvC8-1RA08UU4whjd6dw0_0uTHY5tklFj-h7qTGrS-8AhvZ3iHWT9bj0FoqGDhEwAdolLRnyPoUwkk12moCZvHM9Gbe36gAAdtsC=w544-h521" width="544" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">by</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a><span style="color: #666666;"> is still on Creationism vs Darwinism argument. Essentially Creatism is for people who cannot understand scientific concepts. Science always questions itself, religion doesn't. The Bible may have started out with some moral tenets and some of them are still worth following today, but also condones horrible things like slavery, misogyny and murder.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The music<a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> "Rings Around The World" </a>by the <a href="https://amzn.to/3pxRuxV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Super Furry Animals</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174691077875224494.post-81975882298811650432023-06-27T07:32:00.001+01:002023-06-27T07:32:52.745+01:00Oh My God<center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="540" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RKqDfYkwvjs" title="YouTube video player" width="960"></iframe></center><br />
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<p> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Jlri0p" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World"</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">by</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pkrv7U" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Francis Wheen</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> is still on politics but is now on the Creationism vs Darwinism argument. Essentially Creatism is for people who cannot understand scientific concepts. Science always questions itself, religion doesn't. The Bible may have started out with some moral tenets and some of them are still worth following today, but also condones horrible things like slavery, misogyny and murder.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This blog is still getting over three thousand hits a day and this month is now the most visits I have had in a single month, over 80K. I am now starting to get greedy and need 18K reads before midnight on the 30th to hit 100K in a month. That would need 5K visits a day, and yesterday hit what was probably a high for a day at 3975.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggO9Jm_mFxLj9owv-ZjoCik3kOaXPEFmJqFnvmWeT5BmTiFZaGksLDroYA3KGiohrH119n9IieNK7Ug4U05GPVfap_ombwtZF82KQt-_Fbv_KbhG_E7_CjhuG4k834i_RrnqabuUrXAI31TviyHoQWtYhhPoKG-ZbdBlmIHTUouaI3l7Rx_ZV_15naVlqc/s977/Screenshot%202023-06-27%20071612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="977" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggO9Jm_mFxLj9owv-ZjoCik3kOaXPEFmJqFnvmWeT5BmTiFZaGksLDroYA3KGiohrH119n9IieNK7Ug4U05GPVfap_ombwtZF82KQt-_Fbv_KbhG_E7_CjhuG4k834i_RrnqabuUrXAI31TviyHoQWtYhhPoKG-ZbdBlmIHTUouaI3l7Rx_ZV_15naVlqc/w567-h514/Screenshot%202023-06-27%20071612.jpg" width="567" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="https://ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=7daysin-21&language=en_GB&marketplace=amazon&region=GB&placement=B0BX68DLCF&asins=B0BX68DLCF&linkId=3e5a91db1aa8217df0a31aec63a4de75&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The music is <a href="https://amzn.to/46BWQJx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Four Horsemen"</a> by <a href="https://amzn.to/3NrmTu6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Aphrodite's Child</a> featuring <a href="https://amzn.to/43WIDow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Demis Roussos</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3Xub4rm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vangelis</a> from the album <a href="https://amzn.to/3r4YqmP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"666"</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mike-Singleton/e/B09SF1LZMS?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662882790&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.</span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories</span></h1><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am not sure if you are aware of<a href="https://vocal.media/authors/mike-singleton-mikeydred?via=mikeydred" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> my writing on Vocal </a>but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/a-wander-round-barter-books?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Barter Books</a> - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/fyi/the-plagiarist-poetry-series?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Plagiaristic Poetry Series</a> - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/poets/another-raven?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Another Raven</a> - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/humans/the-cleaner-a-wonderful-autism-focused-christmas-special?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Cleaner</a> - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/education/an-owl-in-a-towel?via-mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An Owl In A Towel </a>- A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/wander/three-reasons-why-i-love-settle?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Three Reasons Why I Love Settle</a> - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/motivation/the-accidental-book?via=mike" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Accidental Book </a>- Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://vocal.media/authors/call-me-les?via=lesley" style="color: #ff9900; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call Me Les</a> - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer</span></li></ol>Mikey Dredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784318606535667915noreply@blogger.com0