Today is my birthday

Today is my birthday (born 1945), without knowing that kindly blues harp player Gernot added his harp again to one of my guitar tracks – a wonderful gift, I hope you like it too…

about my little guitar tribute to Подмосковные вечера (Moscow Nights) – there was a remake by Kenny Ball in the sixties too as “Midnight in Moscow” – I got an e-mail by Andrey Shilov: “This song is known in the West under the name MOSCOW NIGHTS, though in Russian it is not Moscow… Its title is “Подмосковные вечера” what means EVENINGS IN THE MOSCOW SUBURBS…”
P.S.:
I’ve never been in Moscow, but I feel today like a cat in a winter palace / Palais d’Hiver = Зимний дворец :
winterpalais
Actually I’m drawing my personal sketchbook for my grandchildren… – click on the picture to enter my flickr galleries
my today’s drawing:
my-birthday
comment:
today is my birthday, I was born 1945. So many things happened since then. For example in the fifties in my hometown: a little elephant, his name was Tuffi, fell out of the monorail down into the water… he stayed unhurt, firemen pulled him out of the water; I heard he later was sold to a circus in France, at last he died after eating a little bottom of French perfume in a Zoo…

About Didi van Frits

writer, photographer, guitarist, painter

56 responses to “Today is my birthday

  1. Happy birthday… With many notes of music

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  2. Happy Birthday dear Frizz, have a nice day, Thanks and Love, nia

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  3. Happy birthday. I hope your day is filled with whatever means the most to you.
    peace, ~victoria

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  4. Happy birthday, Frizz.
    Lovely music! And what a nice gift to you. Bravo! to both muscians.

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  5. That sounded sweet my friend! Zum Geburtstag! Viel Glueck

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  6. Ahh dear Frizztext have a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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  7. Jaume C.

    Happy Birthday my friend!

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  8. Happy birthday 🙂

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  9. Have a meaningful day, Happy Birthday 🙂

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  10. Fröhliche Geburtstag Dieter!

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  11. Happy birthday!!! it’s my daughter’s birthday too. what a great day to celebrate 🙂

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  12. Alles Gute zum Geburtstag

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    • market in Sabunçu

      einmal kaufte ich auf einem Bauernmarkt drei lebendige Hühner und wollte sie in unserem Haus leben lassen, so wie ich es als Kind bei Bauern gesehen hatte. Meine Frau aber ließ mich mit den drei Hühnern nicht in unsere Stadt-Wohnung hinein. So musste ich den Traum vom morgendlich warmen Frühstücksei begraben. Gottseidank darf ich wenigstens eine Katze halten…
      Germany or Belgium, that's always the question!

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  13. A very happy birthday, Frizz. Mine was yesterday, so many happy returns to both of us!

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  14. what fun! i am traveling and opened this while preparing for a full day; it’s been so long since music loaded AND played on my computer, so i was totally surprised! thanks for a lovely way to start the day, and i hope that yours has been filled with wonderful moments.

    may this next trip around the sun be a great one!
    z

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    • a great intro, Lisa: “Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory – where it stays – it’s transmitted by your hands.”
      ― Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
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      you are serving a fine motivation, Lisa, to continue my little project to make a sketchbook for my grandchildren – not easy for me, because I am not an artist like you (or Albrecht Dürer)
      the-thinker

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  15. A very happy birthday to you Frizz. Your music was very soulful today. Well played, I enjoyed the listening.

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    • “I did it! I wrote for 31 days on the same topic…” = congratulations, Colline! It’s a great challenge to continue with perseverance! My aim is to draw a sketchbook for my grandchildren with at least 100 pages – I only have 15 till now,,,
      my-birthday

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  16. Happy birthday!!! Yes, it is a very cool version!!! So different from the classic one I know since I was a child!!! 🙂

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  17. Happy Birthday, my dear Frizz!!! 🙂
    Sending you my best -musical- wishes!

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    • good to read:
      after a long absence, my radio silence is over…
      =
      μετά από μια μακρά απουσία, σιγή ασυρμάτου μου είναι πάνω.

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  18. Best wishes on this special day. Not only is it your birthday but my husband just informed me that it’s snowing outside. Sure enough. The first snow of the season.

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  19. Allan G. Smorra

    Happy Birthday, Frizz. I am enjoying the sketchbook for your grandchildren (I think that they are the reason that we were born).

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  20. Happy birthday! Have a great one- you deserve it 🙂

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  21. Happy Birthday. It’s my younger daughter’s birthday too today. If you send me you email I gift you a nice guitar song.
    Leslie

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  22. Hope you’re having the happiest of birthdays, Frizz. Your gift to us is this music! Beautiful!!

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  23. Happpy birthday fellow scorp! may god bless you with good health and all the joys of life!

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  24. Happy Birthday! I hope you’ve had a wonderful day.

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  25. Have to wish you a Happy Birthday…I feel through your writings what a great guy you are…Best to you!

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  26. Happy birthday my dear friend
    You are one year older but your heart remains young
    and you are one year younger than I

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  27. Happy belated birthday! 🙂

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  28. Happy, happy – happy birthday!

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  29. A little late … BUT … you clebrate everyday so here is my BIRTHDAY WISHES for YOU.
    May the following year be filled with the best of health, 🍎 lots and lots of music 🎸 and most of all LOVE 💝!!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! 🎈🎈🎈
    Isadora

    ‘Midnight in Moscow’ John Stafford on clarinet

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  30. HPPY BIRTHDAY FRIZZ! Excellent music and lovely drawings. Doing a personal sketchbook for your children is an excellent idea, a very entretaining and amusing way to tell your granchildren about your life experiences.
    Kind greetings,
    Marianne

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    • the kids are too young to read but they have the rhymes in their heads – the drawings are the landmark for remembering the words… – and for me they became landmarks of my life resumes…

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  31. Belated birthday wishes dear Frizz! Wish you a year filled with joy and music. Love your sketches 🙂

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  32. A belated happy birthday to you! Hope you had a great time 🙂

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  33. Happy happy birthday to you! I know it’s been a long, eventful life, and I thought it was amusing that you chose to share the elephant story – a very wacky one! In a way maybe it shows how your life has been filled with such different, unimaginable events. I like the sketches, too – love the cat, with its strange expression and the textured snow – that one is great!

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  34. Lara/Trace

    belated Happy Birthday! Loved this!

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