On the music subject, we looked up a couple of oldies on you tube, and ended up following a trail of some of our favourites from years back. About 2 hours later having a little smootch around until OH tried to do a version of Chuck Berry dance in the kitchen ended up in heaps of laughter on the floor! No gardening today! Promised to clean out the pond, but now on hold, due to a 'painful knee'. Ho Ho.
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I go onto Youtube Music and type in smooth Latin jazz and I get some lovely hip jiggling music to dance about to in the kitchen. I notice my youngest grandson 17 months starts swaying his hips when I start up the music.
Tegan I have got Mr. Tambourine Man in my head since you mentioned The Bryds. And what was the Beach Boys one that started 'The east coast girls are hip ..... ?
I still listen to Sounds of the 60s every Saturday. I will be really sad when Brian Matthews pops his clogs, perhaps Tony Blackburn will take over.
Happy Days. 
That's a point. Where are the ladybirds? 
I know they are worried about declining numbers of butterflies - heard David Attenborough on the radio - but not ladybirds.
Thanks Eloethan 
This might make me sound pompous but anything by Vaughan Williams especially 'The Lark Ascending'. So evocative of hot countryside in early summer, larks hurling themselves into the air singing with a backdrop of the hum of bees! Still get this (although admittedly the hot summers are rare 
) up in the Mourne mountains where we have a cottage. Happy days.
I agree; all sweeping landscapes. Realising that the music is mainly 'outdoor music' in that, even though I'm mainly inside the house the music I'm listening to makes me feel outside..surfing [as if I'd ever surf 
], walking in the countryside, being on the beach etc. As for the sunsets we've been having lately; wow! Now going to watch a bit of the Commonwealth Games and play The Byrds again. And it's retro music, which I don't often play. Which is why, I suppose,when I think about my childhood, the sun is always shining [never, ever remember it raining].
My summers in the 50s seemed to be endless sunshine. I wore shorts and an airtex top with t bar sandals. I would cycle for hours with my friends and we were perfectly safe. What halcyon days.
I do remember the fogs we used to have; they usd to send us home early from school because the buses weren't running [even though you could only see a couple of feet in front of you and had to walk for miles 
.
Yes Tegan I remember those fogs as well just awful. Do you remember when only the rooms that had a fire in we're relatively warm and everywhere else was freezing ? Central heating was unheard of.
Back to the wall to wall sunshine. Off for a picnic today with our visiting family. It's gone well but it will be lovely to have the house back to ourselves on Monday. 
'Up on the roof' and 'Under the Boardwalk' and, if you give me a minute, I'll tell you who recorded them! The Drifters - possibly
I have got into the mood for summer music since reading this thread however when I clicked onto my usual YouTube music and typed in Relaxing Summer Music many of the pictures to promote the music were of sexually provocative women.
I am no prude but why do women have to be portrayed so often as sexual objects, as opposed to thinking women. In a few years my two GSs will be using the internet and I am horrified at what they will see and how they will treat women because of it. I will have to do my best to guide them (in an unstuffy way) through what looks like a minefield.
It's a sad old world. 
I'll put a bin bag on Tegan and see if it enhances my looks.
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