Phyllis just posted a comment about the music from Midsomer Murders. Phyllis, “eerie” is the perfect word to describe this music!

I did some Google-ing on the internet and found out that the instrument that can be heard is a Theremin. I sort of thought that it was… The last time my daughter came home we watched a History Detectives show that featured the inventor of the instrument: Léon Theremin. He was a Russian inventor and actually came to the USA as a goodwill ambassador (of sorts) to show off his invention. (It was found out later that some of the gifts to high ranking people in the government had recording/transmitting devices in them… which Theremin had invented, and which were motion-powered… thus enabling them to not need batteries that would only last for a very short time.) Obviously, he wasn’t such a goodwill ambassador!

Anyway, getting back to Midsomer Murders theme music…

I found a short clip on You Tube showing Celia Sheen playing the Midsomer Music theme song on a Theremin. As you can see, she never touches the instrument… it is all done with motions of her hands as they move close to an antenna resembling a lightning rod and a hook resembling a dough attachment of a fancy mixer. (Anyway, that’s what I think those two things look like…)

As I remember from the show, there is a synthesizor (of sorts!) that actaully transmits the sounds that are made. Reminds me of the VERY old horror movies that used to have that sort of music during the times when we were supposed to be scared, and not notice the fishing line holding up the different flying entities!

PS>>> If you have never seen the PBS show History Detectives, do yourself a favor and do so!

Can you believe that autumn is officially here?!? I’m really ready for it AND for the cooler weather! (Although children in San Antonio have been known to Trick or Treat in shorts… on more than just sporadic years.)

With autumn (finally) here, I know a lot of us are planning on spending lazy weekends reading a good Cozy Mystery. Anyway, I am.. So, I thought I would again ask you all if you wouldn’t mind telling us what mysteries you are currently reading.

I’m going to start by saying that while in the car and doing housework, I am listening to the first Fethering mystery by Simon Brett. I am really enjoying this mystery book, and am wondering why in the world it took me so long to discover this series. (I think that I asked the same question when I read the first of Simon Brett’s Melita Pargeter mysteries and enjoyed it so much that I added him to my list of favorite authors.)

As for my “real book” (my hard copy book), I mentioned before that I am going through one of my “trying new authors” (to me!) phases. I am just now starting to read the first in Ann Cleeve‘s George and Molly Palmer-Jones Birdwatching Mystery Series, and am enjoying it so far.

Anyway… If you wouldn’t mind telling us what mystery you’re reading, we would love to hear from you… a great way for the rest of us to take a look at authors who we might have not “noticed” before!

I feel like I have opened Pandora’s Box! Getting back to yesterday’s entry…

Same grocery store, about a month later… I usually put my groceries in the passenger’s side of my car, that way I can put the garage door down and not worry about Sprite making a mad dash for it. [I guess I now put the garage door down out of habit, our (+/-) 16 year old puppy isn’t dashing anywhere these days.]

I usually don’t even glance at the back of the car, but because I was buying quite a few large items this particular day, I decided to put them in the back. As I approached the back of the car to open the hatch, I was absolutely floored to see that someone had apparently hit the back of my car with a trailer hitch of some type. Good grief! With the deep impressions the trailer hitch left on my bumper, I am convinced that there is no way the culprit didn’t know about the damage he/she was doing as he/she apparently kept trying to back into my bumper.

Needless to say, there was no note on my windshield this time either! Good grief AGAIN!!! What ever happened to common decency?!?

Hmmm… I have to wonder if the drivers had their children in the cars as they made their quick get-aways… GREAT examples!!!