Vision In Blue

Everything changes. I had my little TV ramble and now I'm going to have a music ramble. Back in my day if I wanted to listen to music on the go I had to clip my walkman to my belt... and take a big bag to hold all the cassettes if I wanted a lot of variety! 90 minutes of music, with an interval of course, that was all we got in one session. I do remember records but the cassette tape was very much my medium. I can remember my first few singles, all of which were on vinyl, Barcelona by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe, Kylie... I think it was I Should Be So Lucky and Luciano Pavarotti's Nessun Droma. I know that's a very odd mix there. I started to get cassettes roughly around Now 23 and branched out in to Take That. Then the CD singles from Woolworths, Peter Andre, Babylon Zoo and a variety of Spice Girls. Of course my taste in music has got better... that is only my opinion of course. I now listen to everything from opera to heavy metal, and of course I've go...

... or in this case, quite some years. After my little "old lady" moment I started to think about all the things I remember... you know... from way back when. If I still owned everything I'd ever had, how much of it would be obsolete now? Have kids these days ever seen a black and white TV? We had two TVs, one colour of moderate size in the living room and a small black & white tucked away in the dining room. Mum and Dad always had most of the control when it came to the colour TV. I always remember watching TFI Friday on the little TV with a small [back when a small actually was small] Pizza Hut pizza. I'd have to adjust the dials [yes, dials children] to get a clear picture, which was always a problem if there was someone else in the room moving around. We only had four channels but there was always something interesting or fun on to watch. I mean ACTUALLY interesting, I don't remember any reality shows as they are today. Challenge Anneka was always ...