Here we come to the year of Fi’s birth and the year count starts in earnest. I was five in 1975. If you’ll recall yesterday’s post, Fi and I are in a lifelong cringe competition, so she often likes to remind me of that age difference. Even better, she’ll give other age comparisons and, for…

When I looked for this song, I found it didn’t qualify. Yes, I’m sure there are some few October babies that are born the year before – the longest pregnancy lasting 375 days – but while I haven’t checked dates with Fi’s mother, given her family’s fondness for storytelling I’m sure I’d have heard about…

OK, so we”re not quite at the start of things as yet. If we count back a year each day from Fi’s birthday on October 25th, we’d be posting the song for the year of her birth, 1975, on September 5th. I’m actually starting the countdown from the 4th with a song from 1974. No,…

Some of you reading may know that Fi and I met via a blogging challenge. More than a decade ago now (2011 to be precise), I decided to join a transtasman library industry blogging challenge to blog every day of June, known as #blogjune. Participants would register their interest and a list was posted by…