Candy Man

Happy Christmas Eve!!!

Having lied in bed for an hour this morning with my eyes closed, I started to hear some noises.  I thought it was probably an animal on the roof outside my window.  But did just wonder if it might be ma scrabbling at my door so gruffly called out 'hello'!!  No reply so I decided to drag myself to the window to open the blind not expecting to see anything and indeed I didn't, just delighted to see the snow again. 

I decided to tumble back towards bed and put the radio on on the way back.  I wanted to listen to Chris Evans Breakfast show on radio 2 as he had been on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? last night and lost a lot of money and knew he would have hated it and would be talking about it - which indeed he has been!!!  Poor poor thing!

But as I put the radio on, it was the very first bars of the Candy Man!!!!!  Now the Candy Man has become to me, as it has to a large part of the country's population, a highly significant part of my week.  Chris Evans plays it after the 8o'clock news every friday.  I always aim to be in my classroom by that point and turn it up loud and dance round the classroom to it!  It is so completely uplifting. 

So it was with utter delight and awakening that I heard it this morning - what chance that I put the radio on at that exact moment and it's a Friday!  A super special Friday!  A turned the radio up very loud but felt that wasn't enough so ran all the way down the stairs, but the tv on, found radio 2 and danced all around the lounge!!  Brilliant!!  Love it!!!

And here it is for you to enjoy to :-)

01 The Candy Man

I had looked previously to try buy it on iTunes but had not been able to find the version that Chris plays.  And I have never really bought much on iTunes before.  But today I looked for it again, failed to find it, decided to look on amazon, bought it, downloaded it and have been listening to it! Joy!