Drive…If You Can!

This year (where I live), it has been the worst year ever for driving accidents.

Our government… news to me…has offered €25,000 to anyone who will give up driving for five years. (Wish I had a car). A great incentive. Many are killed on motorbikes here. There is an incentive to get people to switch to motorbikes and for teens to ride scooters. I see many tandem teens whiz by.

There are many problems on roads, congestion, road rage, pot holes, building works and cranes.etc., and bad spelling on road signs.

Why are cars classified as female? She may be a beauty…Lovely bodywork?

When I was a teen many people loved their old rust buckets, many were dangerous to drive. Buying wasnt easy. Now cars don’t appear to have any character….all except Morgan’s, all parts hand made, cars are mass produced. There are still a few great designs.

Speed is also a problem, tho on motorways in Turkey camels overtook us easily, that surprised me. I was somewhat shocked at camels on motorways/freeways. LOL

Do you consider yourself a careful driver? Are you courteous  on the roads?
I loved to block people who were not, and one of my driving instructors could bump such drivers wheels, and get out of skids at high speeds. We had six instructors on the course.

Music seems to equate music with our lives, with freedom, with having no inhibitions, and a loss of control of good behavior. I never identified that way with driving, on my motorbike, and occasionally I was stopped by police for driving too carefully…by the book,my answer was… because I value my life. I also obtained a proficiency driving badge, after a six week driving course getting top marks. Two of us passed out of thirty people, all the rest were guys. They had ridiculed me on the course throughout about my driving. I was determined to just pass, nothing more. I practiced slalems and obstacle courses every night, until mastering. I was shocked to get top marks, my biggest fear was answering in how to repair an engine. But that was no problem, I got a question about spark plugs.

Road rage is on the increase.

Also, I witnessed cars catching alight, new electric cars. I saw a car on fire only yesterday, the driver was unharmed, but his car was a shell; there were police, an ambulance and fire engines, and a huge traffic jam. First, I saw the smoke billowing, then witnessed a terrible scene.

Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55

Bad Boys (Theme from Cops)

Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas

Rascal Flatts - Life Is a Highway (From "Cars"/Official Video)

The Cars - Drive

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Enjoy…. Lian and Kieran

Strange Phenomena

Some mysteries cannot be explained. Are they myths, magic, our imagination, or real?

There are harbingers of misfortune…
Red moons, blue moons, two suns in the sky, rivers will run dry, famines, disasters, food will lose its nutritional value, weather will be out of its usual pattern, foretold and predicted, tsunamis.

Garfunkel & Garfunkel - Blue Moon

Who built Stonehenge, the Pyramids, and Haggar Qim, one of the oldest temples in the world? Does the Loch Ness Monster really exist? Why are many of these sites linked by ley lines across the world?

This is the skull of a Frill shark, the prototype of the first shark ever…meet prehistoric Anna, given to me when I catalogued shells for a friend. Only three have ever be found. Our earth was roamed by strange monsters, gigantic dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex. Hairy mammals, once upon a time. Dinosaurs had two brains, one in its head, one in its tail, connected by a central nervous system. Jellyfish don’t have brains at all.

There are miracles, unexplained. Do you believe?

There are ghosts, ghouls, succubus, incubus,and strange sightings of vampires, and sea monsters.

Phantom 309 Red Sovine

The Fall - There's a Ghost in My House

Spinal Tap - Spontaneous Combustion

Sons of Legion - Strange

There are pink lakes,and ancient ruins.

Some places like Pamakule, it is magnificent…Turkey

There is also a planet made of solid diamond, and strange uninhabitable planets in our universe, black holes, and wormholes.

Do you believe in Strange visions? Have you experienced any strange phenomena? Do you believe in the unexplained? Why do planes and ships disappear in the Bermuda Triangle?

Enjoy our discussion, music and chat. Please steer clear of politics and strong religious views.

Lian and Kieran

One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You Smaller

Are we going down a rabbit hole?

This is madness!

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

My goodness, they can get YouTube.

Is there really a pill for everything? I really doubt it! Yet some have such great faith in pills and potions.
And yet, I take supplements every day. I will rattle soon.
But avoid many prescription drugs.
I find doctors where I live are shocked when I list my supplements.

Invariably, I leave with a prescription I have no intention of even taking.
I believe in natural remedies and have done so since my early twenties, when I took homoeopathic medicine, as well as Bach’s flower remedies. Natural is preferable.

My watch is nine carrot. All organic.

I must hurry to the pharmacy, I’m late for my pills.

I was told to take one aspirin a day. I told my doctor that aspirin was made from willow bark. He had no idea.
I also like  Arnica, Witch Hazel and Aloe vera in stock. My doctor had never heard of them and looked on his computer…My God, he said, they are all plants.
Aloe vera grows wild here. I often cut the leaves and use the pulp. Equally the white may be scraped from a banana peel and used as a pain killer on the skin or for a poultice.

My back is painful these days, but I was shocked and disgusted to receive a prescription for epilepsy tablets to block a particular area of the brain for pain. The side effects appeared to be the worst nightmare: fits, forgetfulness, and possible black outs…no thanks!

I was not shocked that doctors receive a commission for the recommended drugs that they so readily prescribe.

Sharon Osborne took Ozempic

Terrible side effects.

Sometimes, in our bus station, I see young men on the Zombie drug; the side effects can be amputation of their limbs or a heart attack.

Drugs were around in the sixties, and LSD was the most dangerous, but many smoked cannabis. It’s now legal. A few shops have sprung up here.

The Searchers - Love Potion Number Nine

The Rolling Stones - Mother’s Little Helper

LSD - Genius (ft. Sia, Diplo, Labrinth)

Alcohol is also a drug for some.

We also have the dangers of additives to some foods and hidden ingredients.
Silicon to spreads, stabilisers, and gluten. Then there are plastic particles, and crop spraying.

Do you agree that we aren't aware of many side effects in prescription drugs or even warned?
Do you consider the dangers? Do you restrict your diet or eat what you want?

I now consider my diet with the freshest fruit and veg if available. But I live on an island, so we import a lot, and food is expensive.

Please enjoy music, memes, gifs, trailers, and chatting with friends.

Lian and Kieran

Interesting Stories In Songs

Princess Diana became the People’s Princess because she bonded with all types of people, and because her title was taken away.
Lady in Red was played when she became the people’s Princess.

Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red

There had never been anyone like Diana in the Royal family.

Strange that her life became intertwined with tragedy just as that of Marilyn Monroe.
The link was not only two beautiful women with tragic deaths but Elton John originally wrote candle in the wind for Marilyn. Candle in the Wind was played at Diana’s funeral…Elton John said he could not possibly write a song in a week….Both deaths rippled in Public and were beyond sad.

Marilyn was just amazing and iconic.

Marilyn’s ‘Happy Birthday’ rendition for JFK became iconic…apparently she had fallen in love with Kennedy, but he married Jaqueline, so the story goes.

Marilyn Monroe Sings Happy Birthday Mr. President to JFK | Netflix

Most songs that tell a story are about sad lives. Starry Starry Nights was about Van Gogh, who was tormented his whole life, yet produced masterpieces.

Don McLean - Vincent (Starry, Starry Nights)

As Time goes by from Casablanca, still a favorite, as is the movie Casablanca.

Casablanca (1942): Play it Sam, Play As Time Goes By. Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Sinatra sings

A story of unrequited love

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the Titanic music are both about the loss of lives in shipwrecks.
The Titanic was considered unsinkable…only recently have many treasures from the Titanic been brought to the surface of the sea.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Steve Miller Band - Take The Money And Run

What stories to music touched your hearts, or poetry?
Amadeus was also a brilliant movie full of amazing music.

It’s a great subject, so chat with friends and enjoy the company on LFE.
Remember, respect all here, and this is not the place for many religious topics or politics.
So Enjoy 

Lian and Kieran