Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “a song from your childhood.” Think of a song from your childhood and just write. Have fun!
Oh, there are so many songs from my childhood, ranging from Western to Bhangra, Kenyan to Bollywood, that I could pick… Which one?, is the question!
I’m choosing Pass the Dutchie by Musical Youth.
When this song came out, it was around my seventh birthday.
The tune was infectious, and it was playing on the radio all the time, as well as on Top of the Pops!
I loved it.
Some unfamiliar words in the lyrics, that were English, but with Jamaican patois sprinkled within, meant we didn’t always know what we were singing, but we sang along, anyway!
I was so excited to find the lyrics printed in a copy of The Sun, (don’t judge! Pops always got it for the Sun Bingo numbers!) one morning, that I cut them out, and tried to memorise them!
It’s still a bit ambiguous an out what a dutchie actually referenced, though.
A ‘dutchie’ is a Jamaican cooking pot, but the original lyrics passed a ‘kutchie’ around, which is a pot that holds cannabis.😳
I guess it would have been immoral to have a band comprising of children singing about weed…
Still, I love that song. They even performed it live last summer at the Comonwealth Games in Birmingham!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “yes.” Find a word that starts with “yes” or use the word “yes” as is. Bonus points if you start your post with the word you choose. Enjoy!
YesterdayEvery thing felt bleak
Situations out of my control
Today I can see clearly
Even the worst isn't so bad
Reality shone through
Determination hit
All will be well
Yes
These are a few and more beyond, but which one to choose?
Monobrow.
Because I just looked in the mirror and nearly scared myself with the overgrowth in the brow area before reassuring myself that I wouldn’t scare my class on Monday as I have a beautician’s appointment tomorrow…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “starts with gen.” Find a word that starts with “gen” and use it in your post. Have fun!
Which generation are you from?
You know what I mean? All this Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millenials, Gen Z, and now the Alphas…
Now, according to the official lists, I am down as a Gen X.
But, did you know where is a microgeneration that is not fully recognised, in between Gen X and Millenials?
The Xennials.
I was born in 1975 – yes, giving away my age there… and this microgeneration is anything from the mid 70s to the early 80s… and having read what they are described as, I feel Xennial is my term.
“Xennials enjoyed analogue childhoods—no mobile phones, no internet—but came of age in a time of new technological innovations that would leave Millennials wide-eyed with amazement, from VHS video recorders and a fourth (yes, fourth) TV channel, to computer games and the Smash robots. Xennials are digital immigrants and much more comfortable with the brave new world of social media, smartphones and the internet, however but they don’t hold new technology in the same high regard as Millennials.”
This is so me! I remember starting uni with a typewriter in 1993, and some friends with a bit more money had a mobile phone. More like a brick, but it was there and under the One-to-One provider. Computers were mainly in the library or computer suites, and we had internet, but it was dial-up, and this huge room would be filled with students trying to log into Yahoo or Ask Jeeves (remember that one?) and sighing when it was on go slow!
By the end of my uni, I had my own PC and a mobile phone. We used the free voicemail trick for ages until it stopped working. They realised us poor students had found a way to communicate without paying!
Facebook became more of a thing a year or so after I qualified, but we had Friends Reunited before that, too. I was never a MySpace person.
I also loved this little snippet and like to think it is true.
“Wertz highlights a number of Xennial traits including a love-hate relationship with social media and an understanding of the importance of taking ‘digital detoxes’. Like Millennials, they are interested in health and wellness, but unlike their juniors, they have the disposable income to spend on health and wellness products. Xennials also value relaxation and work-life balance, so they will spend their income on holidays and prioritise time with family over work where possible.“
But I Smile Anyway... 