Therapy For Me

W/C 18th November 2024

I am dedicating this week's TFM to the person I sat next to on the train travelling to Manchester on Wednesday. You are going to hear all about it (obvs) but just to be clear the naming of the episode is most definitely for you.

Which brings us to the album that particular track originates from, which is of course Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty. As it happens I had been listening to that long-player just the week before, and one particular moment that I had completely forgotten about had made me smile.

At the end of Runnin' Down A Dream there is a little interlude where Tom instructs the listener that because you are listening to the CD version of the album, there will now be a slight pause to allow those listening on cassette or record to get up and turn the album over.

Genius.

Stay safe.

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

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W/C 11th November 2024

Where are we all at in terms of Christmas Lights?

Don't get me wrong I am a big fan, but I went for a run in London on Thursday morning (around 06:15 so still very much dark) and as I stepped from the hotel I was met with the full twinkly, majestic force of the display as I proceeded toward Russell Square.

I found myself wondering if the middle of November wasn't just a bit too early to be in full chrimbo-mode.

I feel grinch-like just suggesting it, but shouldn't we wait until at least the beginning of advent?

Stay safe.

Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

9-42 John Wiles aka The Old Grey Guitarist

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

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W/C 4th November 2024

The simple fact is that irrespective of whether the outcome is the one we wanted or not, we just have to keep going.

It's fine to feel the way we all feel at the moment, and it's fine to try and make some sense of what just happened. It's also fine to want to distract your self with other stuff, take comfort from something that might seem a little irrelevant, or unimportant and it is certainly fine to find a disproportionate amount of happiness in a piece of optometry.

So with all that in mind, I give you this week's TFM.

Stay safe

America - Razorlight

Kitty Cafe

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

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W/C 28th October 2024

A bit of 80's pop you say? Go on then how about this banger from Erasure....

And it does talk to at least two things I have mentioned in today's TFM, albeit loosely, so I am on point in a roundabout kind of way.

Other than that not much to say in way of set-up for this week, partly because it will detract from the content, and partly because I am late for my morning run.

Stay safe.

Stop! - Erasure

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

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W/C 21st October 2024

Here we are then, episode 250 of TFM...

Yes, you could say it has gone by in the blink of an eye. But then again, if you think about what we have lived through in the backdrop to those 250 episodes, it has been a crazy ride.

Whilst the COVID pandemic dominated the first couple of years, how could we also forget the transition of Presidents in the U.S, the nonsense around Brexit and the slow death of the car-crash that was the last Government.

I have ranted, I have pulled my hair out, I have laughed and I have cried. I have sat at my desk, in the garden, and at various locations around the globe.

I have tried to make sense of the noise, and often been left short, but I have coped, carried on and because of you I haven't felt on my own, So thank you.

Stay safe.

And So It Goes - Billy Joel

Accident Claim Management Firms

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on Facebook, Insta, Twitter or Patreon. Thanks for getting this far.

W/C 14th October 2024

Although I will mention Keir this week, the episode title is not meant as a comment on the whole Taylor Swift affair/gate/scandal.

Admittedly the idea that a politician meeting a famous pop star, and the police ensuring her safety doesn't take me to quite the same place as say illegally proroguing parliament, or breaking your own lockdown laws. But I will leave that one alone.

The choice of song is inspired by John, who I met this week, and how amazing things can be the result of doing something in all innocence of what the potential outcome could be. Doing something because you can, and with no expectation attached.

I like that, it kind of made my week.

Stay safe.

Innocent Man - Billy Joel

The Old Grey Guitarist (1)

The Old Grey Guitarist (2)

Ian Dunt Article

The Big Red Building

Furnivals Inn

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on Facebook, Insta, Twitter or Patreon. Thanks for getting this far.

W/C 7th October 2024

However I was also very wrong, though as it turned out probably not because of a well thought through plan.

The fact is that the Tories are now going to lurch to the right, in a desperate and misguided ploy to try and regain some of the votes they have lost to the Reform Party. One group of headbangers try to appeal to another group of headbangers, all with the zeal of the converted.

I find it hard to believe that we are going to have to listen to even wilder diatribes on why the UK isn't sovereign enough, or didn't Brexit hard enough, and that all the answers lie in a referendum on membership of the EHCR.

You may be right, but that isn't the place that you win from.

Stay safe.

You May Be Right - Billy Joel

War Game Documentary

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on Facebook, Insta, Twitter or Patreon. Thanks for getting this far.

W/C 30th September 2024

You will hear me talk about the Penshaw Monument in this weeks TFM, and pretty much everything I said about it was (on further investigation) wrong.

It is in fact a memorial rather than some sort of Victorian Folly, and was built to commemorate the death of John Langton, the first Earl of Durham and the Governor-General of British North America. It is indeed officially know as the Earl of Durham's Monument.

What is true is where it stands, on Penshaw Hill near the village of Penshaw, between the towns of Washington and Houghton-le-Sping in County Durham, and that for many locals it is the reassuring sign they are in the right place

So I got some of it right.

Stay safe.

The Tipping Point - Tears for Fears

James Blunt

Penshaw Monument

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on Facebook, Insta, Twitter or Patreon. Thanks for getting this far.

W/C 23rd September 2024

I am writing this at 10:02 on the 27th September.

By my reckoning it is the 54th time I have witnessed this date, and would imagine that for forty-odd of those occurrences I should have some recollection. Except I am not sure I have.

I have probably done many interesting things on this day through the years, for example it's possible it is one of the first days I spent at University back in 1990. I may well have been to a gig, or stood at Bramall Lane watching the mighty Blades on this date over the years - but ask me for specifics and I have none to offer.

Wouldn't it be great if there were some way to retrieve that information, a sort of retrospective diary-on-demand, to remind you of the significance of this day, over the years.

Stay safe.

Memory of Water - Marillion

Bilberry Reservoir Disaster

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

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W/C 16th September 2024

So I sat outside the British Library for a bit this week (as you will hear) with my face in the sunshine, and it was bloody lovely.

There was a place to get coffee, one of those horse-boxy, old caravan style ones, and so I ordered a flat white. The coffee they were serving was 'origin' and it took me right back because the first time I had origin coffee was in Padstow about 15-20 years ago.

It turns out that they are celebrating their 20 year anniversary, and the reason I stumbled across the brand in Padstow is that Cornwall (Porthleven, to be precise) is the origin of their story (see what I did there...).

Needless to say the coffee was smashing, particularly as it came with a thread to the past which allowed me to think back to early morning walks along the Camel Trail.

Stay safe.

How Far We've Come - Matchbox Twenty

Origin Coffee

Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.

If you want to keep in touch with TFM and the other stuff I do then please follow me on Facebook, Insta, Twitter or Patreon. Thanks for getting this far.