YouTube

Perfect timing for this exercise. I am a YouTube subscriber already - one of my favourites is the Muppets librarian sketch. Another is the Mr Bookman scene from Seinfeld.

Last Saturday night I was in a hotel at Manchester Airport, watching a show on TV called Britain's Got Talent. A very frumpy woman came on and said her dream was to sing like Elaine Paige. Everyone was smirking at her until she started singing - what a fabulous voice. Her name is Susan Boyle and if you want to feel uplifted, watch her sing on YouTube. I hope she wins.

podcasts again

OK, now I have the hang of this. I didn't know about librivox - how fantastic!

Podcasts

Back from vacation and I'm trying to catch up on my final exercises. What a relief - podcasts! Now that I am going to a health club regularly I bought myself an iPod, so I am already using podcasts. So nice on planes to be able to plug in - particularly when the entertainment system isn't working. I've been downloading CBC music programmes - trouble is I am getting a bit tired of the commentaries as I already know them so well. Must remember to stop singing along to my mouldy oldies when I'm on the treadmill - but it's awfully hard not sing along to the Four Seasons or Dusty Springfield.

A friend told me to go to the BBC website which apparently has terrific podcasts.