Senses working overtime #200

1 Okay - here we are at the 200th edition. 

Wow - they mount up.

What does this mean? Well, it means that for the last 200 weekends I have posted on this blog. pretty cool huh!

Here's where they all started, 199 posts ago, with the very first one.

2 James Russell Lowell 

American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, James Russell Lowell would have been 200 years old on March 22. Clearly, no one lasts forever!

No, I hadn't heard of him either. So here's some bio, and one of his poems: The First Snowfall.

3 Peter Tork

One of my BFFs alerted me to the passing of Monkee Peter Tork. Like The Fabs, there are now only two Monkees left. 

4 James Acaster

Love JA on Would I Lie To You, so snapped this (Classic Scrapes) up from Waterstones. I'm annoying Jacky by reading it as I laugh out loud all the time and want to read out bits to her. It's a blast!

5 Three Amigos

Heidi Allen, Sarah Wollaston and Anna Soubry

I was buoyed by the news of Tory defections and Labour defections this week - great to know that a whiff of principle and integrity still appears to have a place in British politics.

Overtime Private Universe
I love this Neil Finn song (done when he was a Crowded Housemate), reminds me of growing up in Auckland and sums up what this blog is all about in its own way.

I came across the Farewell concert CD at Flashback Records and lapsed into full on childhood nostalgia while listening to it this morning. Can't think of a more appropriate place to end the 2ooth JFTT post than in my Private Universe!