I spent a considerable amount of time tonight trying to find a song on itunes. I heard it - a 'blast from the past' - whilst in a pub with the OH last week and it had been on my mind ever since. I found it, and was downloading just as the OH got in from work. (Rather irritatingly, he knew the name of it as soon as I hummed the tune, so why he couldn't have read my mind and put me out of my misery days ago I just don't know)

But it made me think about songs that are so intertwined with a moment in my past that I am instantly transported back to another time and place. Like hearing Denis by Blondie, when I was a lonely au pair in France and totally gratified that I could understand the verse that was in French; my first night in a uni hall of residence, lying in bed and hearing 'Lovely Day' by Bill Withers drifting across the night; Jamming with Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Crystal Palace Bowl in 1980, the air heavy a thick cloud of smoke from pot; Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, when I met the love of my life, and later, Wise Men by James Blunt, blasting out in cafes when I spent hours researching family history in London. And many more.

On my Nano, but clearer still in my head and heart.