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FREE Blood Pressure Monitoring Spreadsheet

Some years ago after a cousin of mine had a major blood pressure related incident that eventually resulted in his death, his doctor suggested that extended family have their blood pressure checked. I had mine checked, not thinking for a minute there would be any issues. I was a fairly...

The Best Online Dating Tips for Men and Women

I’m feeling a little presumptuous writing this despite being heavily in the dating game the last few years! I’m no expert, but I’ve been in long term relationships and marriages, had success and failures and have extensive experience of the modern online dating trend in particular. There’s a pile of...

Such a Simple Thing

Our cover of “Such A Simple Thing”. Ray LaMontagne is probably my favourite singer. I feel a bit presumptuous trying to cover one of his songs but he makes me raise my singing game and if I only get a small percentage of the way towards one of the best,...

Dealing with Abandonment Issues and Rejection

I have to start with a disclaimer and say that if you’ve landed here looking for a magic bullet answer on how to overcome and conquer feelings of rejection, abandonment and uselessness, you may or may not find it here. But I’ll be outlining my own experiences with rejection and...

For No One

For anyone who’s experienced a romantic breakup or two and the odd transitions from strangers to deep connection to strangers again, which is probably us all.. The Beatles, “For No One”: 

Caroline No

I’ve recorded a couple of versions of this Beach Boys song from Pet Sounds in the last year, one “wall of sound” version and this raw, faulty, minimal one but this one just has something better I think.. The other one is here – https://soundcloud.com/reverbstudios/caroline-no

Waking Light

Our cover of “Waking Light” by the brilliant Beck..

Tupelo Honey

Our cover of Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey” with vocals, guitar, piano, bass and drums..

Imagine

Our cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine”. Karl on drums and strings, me on piano and vocal..

One More Cup Of Coffee

The latest cover from Leon and Karl at Reverb Studios! A dark Bob Dylan ballad..

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