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In reply to the discussion: How are we to feel young when our youngest daughter just turned 30? [View all]DFW
(54,881 posts)He sang "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" too. I think "No Man's Land" was originally called "The Green Hills of France," but that may just have been the name of the album it was on. We were always exchanging albums among ourselves at the German festivals. Cilla and Artie once came to my house outside Boston for the afternoon at the start of some American tour they were on. I was in that area for a brief time in the late 1970s. I lost touch with all of them over the years when I gradually stopped doing live concerts. It was a nice, cozy little clique of musicians, though as a "Yank," I was always considered to be the one who "talked funny."
In Holland, on the other hand, I often get told that I've ALMOST lost my accent, but they can still tell that I'm originally from South Africa. Of course, I don't speak Afrikaans, and I've never been to South Africa in my life. This happens a lot to me, I don't know why. A recent critique of my novel noted that "The author's passion for fine wines shines through as he uses all of the senses to describe setting." Sure, there's a perceptive literary critic for you. I'm a teetotaler and never drink wine at all, hate the taste of the stuff. I just used my imagination to create what I thought a pompous wine lover might write about the vintages he is tasting as the book goes along.