Almost There - !!!NEW!!!

Less than a month til (hopefully) the end of the COVID restrictions. That deserves a song.

Almost There not by Anika Noni Rose 
Woohoo! We are nearly through it all!
We have had to wait such a long while
After all the messing around
It’s been such a trial 

Summer’s here and we can cheer
Because now the end is in sight
And despite how long we have had to wait
We’re getting closer and closer day and night

And we’re almost there
We’re almost there
No more stay at home restrictions
For us to bear
Trials and tribulations
We’ve had our share
But hopefully nothing stops us now
'Cause we’re almost there

We remember 2019
When we could all go out
See all our friends and family
Without a single doubt

For far too long we have been in its sway
Now finally we are on our way
By doing what we’re told
To ensure the spread’s controlled

And we’re almost there
We’re almost there
We know that there’s no need for despair
‘Cause we’re almost there
We’re almost there 

There's been trials and tribulations
We know we’ve had my share
But we’ve lasted this long
And we’ll make it through
‘Cause we’re almost there
We’re almost there
We’re almost there!

Royal - !!!NEW!!!

Surprised, as a self-confessed Tudor geek, that I hadn't done a parody song for the Tudor matriarch before. I thought I'd better remedy that.

Royals not by Lorde

I didn’t have a choice in my own life
I cut my teeth on adulthood at age thirteen
I found that childbirth was a strife
Having been married, when still a preteen

And everyone was like woman, female, don’t care much about her
Feeble, child bride, can’t see there’s much to her
Didn’t care, would prove I was more than I seemed
‘Cause everyone was like civil war - we know we’re gonna win it
Red rose, white rose, we will soon decide it
They would see, that their future it was up to me

I wanted to be royal (royal)
Knew that it’s in my blood
The crown and throne is what I'll seek
And what I will help my son to reach
He will be the ruler (ruler)
I will make him king, see
And one day he’ll rule, he’ll rule, he’ll rule, he’ll rule
That’s what the future would be

So that is why as a widow
I always did whatever would best support him
And everyone they would soon know my purpose in life
Was only to exalt him

And everyone was like woman, female, don’t care much about her
Feeble, child bride, can’t see there’s much to her
Didn’t care, would prove I was more than I seemed
‘Cause everyone was like civil war - we know we’re gonna win it
Red rose, white rose, we will soon decide it
They would see, that their future it was up to me

I wanted to be royal (royal)
Knew that it’s in my blood
The crown and throne is what I'll seek
And what I will help my son to reach
He will be the ruler (ruler)
I will make him king, see
And one day he’ll rule, he’ll rule, he’ll rule, he’ll rule
That’s what the future would be

Yeah yeah yes
Even though it was a grand scheme
I knew that I would achieve that dream
Yeah yeah yes
Lived up to my family tree
Yes their future it was up to me

I wanted to be royal (royal)
Knew that it’s in my blood
The crown and throne is what I'll seek
And what I will help my son to reach
He will be the ruler (ruler)
I will make him king, see
And one day he’ll rule, he’ll rule, he’ll rule, he’ll rule
That’s what the future would be

From The Mind of Merc - Accountability

(Got a bit sidetracked and completely lost track of the date. Anyway here is April's From The Mind of Merc.)

Sometimes I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today I was thinking about accountability.

Isn't it an interesting word? And it's got a pretty interesting meaning too. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, it means:

"the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it, or the degree to which this happens"

Do you think Boris Johnson is aware of this definition? Or even this word?
Granted he went to Oxford rather than Cambridge but I doubt universities would have massively different dictionaries*.

If he doesn't know it, can someone please introduce him to it because I'm getting seriously fed up having a Prime Minister who is (not has - we're way beyond that) such a moral vacuum. And what's more faces absolutely zero consequences for his actions.

*that's a joke btw