CHRISTMAS 1978

Christmas 1978, soon came around, as I said in previous post Nathan was gradually let out of Hospital on a more regular basis, firstly a few times a week and back at the night, then after a while we had him home for a few days at a time, he was still being Sick a lot of the time, so he was still being kept well looked after by the Hospital Doctors!

Nathan was still on Babies bottled food, but Susan remembers Nathans first taste of babies proper Food!

The Doctors said he could try some Heinz Chocolate Pudding, this was over the Christmas period, he loved it but as usual he brought it all back up, so he was straight back on the babies milk again!

I remember around Christmas week I think it was , we went over to Susans Mum one evening on the Bus, to visit her Parents, while we were over there it started to Snow quite heavy and lasted for ages, so as it got time to leave, Susan was offered to stay the night there with Nathan!

This was great, but unfournately it didnt include me, so I had to get the Bus back home on my own!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

15th FSVB SELECTION FUNK MIX

Here's the 15th Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by DJ Snoopyspain, its a"Various Randy Muller Mix" there's some classic Funk Tracks on here, including some Classic Brass Construction, Skyy and Funk Deluxe!

Either press play to listen or press link to go to DJ snoopyspains Podomatic page and download to your pc.

see the podcast page for full track listing!

brass construction skyy and funk deluxe mix

djsnoopyspain's Podcast

THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF ALL TIME......... AL GREEN........ part 4

As promised from a previous Al Green post, The Christmas Album from 1983!

It has been re-released over the Years in many different guises!

It was also packaged with a Jackie Wilson Christmas complation! in 1998, and a 2001 release was called "Al Green Christmas" the last time it was re-released was back in 2005, the album was renamed "Feels Like Christmas" and had an additional track called "Glory Glory" incidentally, this latest version was also originally released in America in 2001.

There are some Great Christmas Songs on the Album, all given the Al Green Style of Singing!

The last Track is Written by Al especially for the Album

This my personal Favorite Christmas Album and played every year in our household, its also played when cooking the Christmas Dinner!

I have uploaded Tracks seperately, so you can Download the ones you like, but they are all Great tracks, the album only about 30 minutes long!

The track lisings are as follows:

1. White Christmas 2.32

2. The Christmas Song 3.26

3. Winter Wonderland 2.05

4. I'll Be Home For Christmas 3.13

5. Jingle Bells 1.57

6. What Christmas Means To Me 3.42

7. O Holy Night 3.39

8. Silent Night 3.17

9. It feels Like Christmas 3.30

14th FSVB SELECTION SOUL MIX

Here's the 14th Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by Matthew Biant, its a"Various Soul Mix" there's some classic Soul Tracks on here, including some Classic Stylistics, Al Green, Bill Withers, Bobby Caldwell and Marvin Gaye etc etc!

Either press play to listen or press link to go to Matthews Podomatic page and download to your pc.

see the podcast page for full track listing!

#40 Moments In Soul

Music of Loving It

NATHAN OUT OF DANGER!

After a week or two, Nathan was released from the Hospital's Baby Unit and Transferred to the Baby Unit at the General Hospital, which was handy for us , as it was only 2 minutes from where we were living!

So over the next couple of Months, Nathan was in and out of Hospital constantly, going in for a few days then back out again, which for me and Susan was a strain, what with living in 1 room and sharing all other rooms and facilities with about 9 other families, plus still working split-shifts at work, times were hard, not too mention having hardly any money, as I was still on low wages being a Trainee Chef!

I cant remember either family helping out too much either!

As for family visits to our place, they only happened about twice the whole time we lived there!

This must of been worse for Susan, as at least I had work to get away from the strain of our situation!

We were just about out of November in 1978 and things had not really changed concerning Nathan and our situation and with Christmas was just around the corner, (our First as a Family since we got Married) would things improve!