Tuesday’s A to Z challenge: “U”
Event Type: General Blogging
Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly
Description: Every Tuesday I offer the “A to Z challenge”, walking step by step through the alphabet.
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Last week we had the “T”-challenge, so this week we’ll create a new turn with “U” – I’m sure you’ll also find a photo, a story or a music title tagged with “U”! Feel free to add in the comments below the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “U”!!! Myself I’ll focus on the “Uncle Bud”:
UNCLE BUD
let me sing about “Uncle Bud” for you:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/blues-wikiloops-jam-no-15864
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Hi, there. Thanks for another great challenge. As it is Memorial Day here in the US, and we are looking at ‘U’ here is a story about my Uncle Lewis.
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you made my eyes fill with tears… “On September 20, 1944, the day before his company attacked the Siegfried Line, Staff Sergeant Lewis Baltuck was killed by the blast of a shell. Twenty years old, he had hardly begun to live…” – because as German we all feel guilty (though I was born 1945, starting my life in an orphanage)
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hi Rosemarie,
let it rain, let it pour:
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https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/if-my-boat-sinks-with-me
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Hello Frizz. Sounds good. My contribution will be an Up in the Bronx post. Say, are you interested in reviewing another book? The second novel is finally printed up. I’m linking to a post with the Up in the Bronx song called Moon Tides, which I think is one of my better ones. http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/moon-tides/
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dear Bumba / Stephen: I don’t read or write book reviews anymore, aged nearly 70 now – I only play a little guitar sitting on my bed daily, actually exercising on
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I’ve done it again: the very risk to sing a song, aged nearly 70:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/if-my-boat-sinks-with-me
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My contribution is Usedom, the sunniest island of Germany: http://geriatrixfotogallerie.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/the-island-of-usedom/
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hi Traudel,
my mother lived nearby on the island Ruegen – she left me 1945 in an orphanage on the other side of the Iron Curtain…
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Most likely she thought this is best for you… A tough decision in a tough time.
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Very lively this morning!
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Good old Uncle Bud has woken me up and brightened a grey, damp English morning. Here is my contribution which suits the weather: http://travelwithintent.com/2014/05/27/umbrellas-madrid-botanical-gardens/
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hi Debbie,
have you been in the Crystal Palace in the middle of the Retiro Park? Can’t forget that location (and the Flamenco guitarists of Madrid, bought a guitar there)
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My ‘U’, Frizz, is ‘Unveiling Losing Kui – a piece about my e-book and how writers need good editors: http://wp.me/pKVAM-I8
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hi Tish, unveiling the long way of your publishing levels the favorite song of my English teacher (R.I.P.) came into my mind: “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”
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Very catchy, Frizz. 🙂
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Here’s one for you 😉 – http://lynneayersbeyondthebrush.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/a-z-challenge-u/
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Hi Frizz. Wonderful guitar strings. Always soothing, never fails. 🙂
Here’s my U contribution this week: UNESCO Heritage Site.
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/photo-journal-a-z-photo-story-challenge-u-is-for-unesco-heritage-site/
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Hi Frizz, here’s my U : http://suejudd.com/2014/05/27/frizztexts-a-to-z-challenge-u-is-for-umbria/
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A family birthday and a heart warming story for you today, Frizz. Thanks for singing to me. I will be singing ‘happy birthday’ 🙂
http://restlessjo.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/u-is-for-ula/
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hi Jo,
you touched my heart with the video, the “… 1966 documentary tells the story of 734 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees. Moving interviews, filmed 20 years later, document their harrowing exodus from Poland: via Siberian labour camps, malnutrition and death, to being greeted by Prime Minister Peter Fraser on arrival in NZ. From traumatic beginnings the film chronicles new lives (as builders, doctors, educators, and mothers) and ends with a family beach picnic…”
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They were terrible times, Frizz, but at least some of them had a happy ending.
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Do you ever play the ukulele Frizz? Here’s my take on U.
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the UK Ukulele orchestra:
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Thanks for that clip Frizz what a lovely informal sort of ensemble.
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Hello Frizz, here’s my U contribution, http://wp.me/p1NUPI-iR
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U is for Magill University http://sonyavdg.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/tuesdays-a-to-z-challenge-tagged-u-for-magill-university/
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U is for ‘Unseen’. The water towers of NYC hide in plain sight… http://jaspasjourney.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/nyc-water-towers/
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Here’s mine: http://nagpanaoan.com/2014/06/02/tagged-u-upper-deck/
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thank you for “…almost at the end of the alphabet, how can I give up.”
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