Mix tapes

Am I the only person who knows they are absolutely dreadful at making mix tapes? For some reason I always put too many sad songs on. Mine and Becca's bank holiday road-trip to Seahouses started off with a jaunty soundtrack provided by Becca. We bopped (insofar as you can whilst also steering and managing to indicate etc.) and sang along all the way to Warkworth. As we changed the disc to my own offering I immediately started to well up. The first song I had put on was Laura Cantrell's Bees. Listening to it at home on my own would make me feel a little sad in a pleasingly wistful way but trying to explain what the song was about (and hence why I was upset) was quite disastrous 'It's about this old man whose wife and friends had....' I said that sentence about twenty times before accepting that I was never going to get to the end of it without losing a contact lens. It brought back terrible memories of Gabrielle's Rise Again (I defy anyone, no matter how hard they might be, Geoff Capes even, to not have a bit of a snivel at the story behind that one). Warkworth Castle was just a fleeting blur and I skipped songs. Later on I started to have another blub at Hey Hey Helen until Bec reminded me that it wasn't actually about me and I wasn't alone with a kid, trying to put a dreadful marriage behind me.