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You Jane

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We were in our blue lagoon at the time… It was raining outside but the lagoon was like a warm comforting bath (had it been a hot afternoon it would have been too hot for comfort!). As always, I busied myself with the pool net, removing every skerrick of fallen leaf or waterlogged fly, although I did so more from habit than need because the pool was as clear as a mountain stream; in fact, we mermaids rather enjoy the feeling of our arms stretching out, this way and that, through the water. Lorelle understands this very well – we are kindred spirits. So, I quite understood when my childhood friend (and mermaid) looked up at the palm trees by the pool and exclaimed, with horror:

“Oh no! I missed them, just look at that clump of flowers that are going to fall into the pool!”

Of course, everyone knows that floral flotsam and jetsam is anathema to a mermaid and her habitat. Lorelle (or should I call her Lorelei?) immediately jumped out of the pool and found her stepladder and long-handled secateurs. I smiled to myself as I remembered my own adventures with long-handled secateurs and trampolines when I was house-sitting for Lorelle some years ago (see chapter “Virgin on the Ridiculous” in my book “The Innocent Flirt Down-under”). And I took these photographs of a mermaid quite as at home out of the water and up in trees.

“You Jane,” I thought. I a Jane too, but you may already know that.

Move Baby Move

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A couple of days ago I was on the move myself when a familiar, but long unheard and almost forgotten, voice came on the car radio; the presenter said that it was “the late great Johnny O’Keefe. At the mention of that name my mind immediately went back to my very early childhood at Gumdale and I could see and hear my late (great) dad singing along to Johnny O’Keefe on the radio; for quite some time Dad used to wake us up to his own very exaggerated rendition of “Move Baby move” (click on the link below to see the originator). Funnily enough, I had never actually seen Johnny O’Keefe singing “Move Baby Move” until just now when I checked him out on Google and I was surprised to see that he sang with his hands held behind him (how sedate for such a rousing song!). I also noted that Johnny O’Keefe had a severe traffic accident in June 1960.

Two days ago I had packed up my bags, said goodbye to Doris the cat, left my swanky pad at Birkdale, and called in at Bill’s before driving down the M1 Pacific Highway to Roland’s house. Very soon after joining the motorway, the traffic slowed to walking pace and sometimes to a halt. A fire truck raced past on the emergency lane. Logan Radio traffic news told of an accident – two fatalities – on the road ahead. At Springwood there was a barricade of police and emergency vehicles and all the cars were ushered, in an orderly fashion, into one lane; there was no trying to push in, or of any sign of nervous frustration owing to the hours of being held in traffic – irritation had long since given way to acceptance and then to a reverence for those who had died on the same road we were passing over.

At the barricade policeman waved me on. I looked at the vast empty road before me and was almost too overwhelmed to press my foot on the accelerator. I looked in the rear mirror and saw that the drivers behind me were similarly bewildered. At length, I gave it some gas, watched the needle reach one hundred… and moved on.

Yesterday, mindful of the traffic, I moved on again, this time I took the motorway north. As I turned off the Bruce Highway onto the Sunshine Highway I felt a familiar excitement – a sort of holiday, come homecoming excitement – for I was nearly at Lorelle’s.

Johnny O’Keefe Move Baby Move – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5G-SXC8Rc
Feb 21, 2012 – Uploaded by sallie6

Johnny O’Keefe ♥ Move Baby Move ♫. sallie6.

 

Johnny O’keefe – Move Baby Move Lyrics

Move baby move, Get in the groove now, Move baby move
Get in the groove girl, Move baby move, Get in the groove now
Ah, let me tell ya girl, you’re lookin’ so fine, now
Oh, when you twist you drive-a me crazy
And when you shake-a, you shake me up baby
There’s only one thing that I wanna do-oo
I wanna move and-a groove with you, yeah
Move baby move, Get in the groove now, Move baby move
Get in the groove now, Move baby move, Get in the groove now
But keep it goin’ girl, you’re lookin’ so fine, now
When you walk you look so fine, yeah
And when you talk I know that you’re mine, girl
There’s only one thing that I wanna do-oo
I wanna move and-a groove with you, yeah
Move baby move, Get in the groove now, Move baby move
Get in the groove girl, Move baby move, Get in the groove now
Let me tell ya girl, you’re lookin’ so fine, yeah
(Ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup ….. )
Move baby move, Get in the groove now, Move baby move
Get in the groove girl, Move baby move, Get in the groove now
Let me tell you, girl, you’re lookin’ so fine, yeah
(Ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup ….. )
Move it, move it, baby, never never stop
Why don’t ya move it, move it, baby, never never stop
C’mon lets move it, move it, baby, never never stop, now
But let me tell ya girl, you’re doin’ so fine, yeah
(Ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup ….. )
Move it, move it, baby, never never stop
Why don’t ya move it, move it, baby, never never stop
C’mon lets move it, move it, baby, never never stop, now
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon …..
(Ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup-ba-dup ….. )
Move baby move (fade)