To navigate the lockdown week I try and make weekends a little special.
Working for myself I could spread the work into the weekend but I don't.
Weekdays are for work.
Weekends are for chilling.
I start Saturday mornings by stripping the bed, singing to the radio and reading as long as I want while the sheets are in the washing machine.
When I turned on the radio this morning the first song I heard was Brimful of Asha.
It took me back to a long car journey in the summer of 2000 when we took our then four month old with his three siblings to see family in Swansea.
It was a very stop, start journey as you can imagine with four children under eight.
Are we there yet?
Playing on repeat was a cassette tape (remember them?), Now That's What I Call Music 39, which included: Never Ever by All Saints; Angels by Robbie Williams; Perfect Day by David Bowie, Lou Reed & more and Brimful of Asha.
Brimful of Asha by Cornershop was the one that everyone loved to sing along to.
If you haven't heard it, the song is about the importance of the Bollywood music industry and is multi-layered with meaning as it references two famous sisters - Asha Bhonsle and Lata Mangeshkar and celebrates Indian culture.
However, asha also means hope and Bollywood movies are seen as a fantasy of a better way of life.
The idea that the movies offer something lovely and comfortable is summed up in the refrain:
"Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow," which our kids used to love singing at the tops of their voices especially as Ben was breastfeeding at the time!
The song did indeed remind me of better times, last summer in fact when my children were last all together with us to celebrate Briony's 23rd birthday.
Coincidentally, it was when I last wore this top - honestly, I was already dressed when the song came on the radio!
Here's to the next time we can all be together again.
Until then I will just makes the best of it, cuddle Frankie and sing along to Brimful of Asha reminding myself how lucky I am to have such happy memories.
... ON THE 45! I remember that constantly being on the radio too. How cute are your kids in that picture! Weekends are for chilling and I hope you have a lovely one Jane. Lulu xXx
Cornershop! We went to see them in Wolverhampton when Brimful of Asha came out, a gang of us (Jon included) drove over in a mates knackered yellow Beetle, squashed in like sardines and we drank so much lager in the bar that we could have been watching anyone. Their new album, England is a Gareden is phenomenal! Lovely to see that spotty top worn twice. Crazy to think you were a married woman with four children and I was still acting like an irresponsible teenager despite being born the same year! xxx
Ah Vix I am so jealous you saw them during this time. The 90s was my lost decade. I was so busy rearing kids I didn't know what was in the charts or around but somehow I did get to see Bruce Sprinsgteen twice during that decade.!!
... ON THE 45! I remember that constantly being on the radio too. How cute are your kids in that picture! Weekends are for chilling and I hope you have a lovely one Jane. Lulu xXx
ReplyDeleteNice that music reminds you of things - I dont get that connection myself :)
ReplyDeleteCornershop! We went to see them in Wolverhampton when Brimful of Asha came out, a gang of us (Jon included) drove over in a mates knackered yellow Beetle, squashed in like sardines and we drank so much lager in the bar that we could have been watching anyone.
ReplyDeleteTheir new album, England is a Gareden is phenomenal!
Lovely to see that spotty top worn twice.
Crazy to think you were a married woman with four children and I was still acting like an irresponsible teenager despite being born the same year! xxx
Ah Vix I am so jealous you saw them during this time. The 90s was my lost decade. I was so busy rearing kids I didn't know what was in the charts or around but somehow I did get to see Bruce Sprinsgteen twice during that decade.!!
ReplyDeleteMusic has a way of taking us back, doesn't it? I don't actually know that song!
ReplyDeleteLove your dotty blouse.