'You've got your hands full'

Gorgeous singing from twin boys - they're going to be big some day!

WHEN this blog was all about twins, triplets and more, I used to regularly post cute videos from YouTube. I thought I'd do it again for a change. These boys are just wonderful!

Memes are made of this: We sang Shang-A-Lang and we ran with the gang...

CAN you imagine Howard Orange or Keith Duffy grappling with your stopcock?

Me neither. So when I read that Alan Longmuir, one-time Bay City Roller 'got used to the life of a plumber' a long time ago, it's pretty baffling. 

When I was six, I dreamed of the day I'be 16. I imagined I would be living in a flat by then, with a boyfriend called Dave or Steve and he would be a builder.

Sights and sounds that make me smile, tagged by Rosie Scribble

TWO soups? I love this sketch. I've chosen it as an image that makes me smile after being tagged by Rosie Scribble. She also wants to know a song that makes me feel happy too - that'll be Wake me up before you go go, by Wham. (But not Everything she wants even if I was in the crowd at the NEC when the video was filmed, don't you know.)

I'm tagging the following bloggers: Laura, Erica, Trisha, Alice, Insomniac Mum

Good Day to you.

My favourite Christmas song: The little boy that Santa Claus forgot by Nat King Cole

LIZ at Livingwithkids asks: "What's your favourite Christmas song?"

This one is mine. Hope you like it. There's not a dry eye in the house here, let me tell you...

And the lyrics are here.

Twin Tuesday: Jedward are just the latest twins to rock the X Factor!

2009:

Twins and Eurovision: double the talent!

ACCORDING to this piece, twins loom large in this year's Eurovision once again, even if these sisters fell at the last hurdle before getting there.

The above video is of twin sisters Sophie and Magaly who charmed the Eurovison audience back in 1980 with Papa Pingouin, ending in a respectable 9th place, before going on to have a massive hit in their native France.

X Factor twins compete for chance at Eurovision

IDENTICAL twin sisters Francine and Nicola Gleadall compete on Your Country Needs You final tonight on BBC1. If they win, they will compete in the Eurovision Song Contest Moscow 2009 in May.

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UPDATE: They lost out to Jade Ewen. See earlier performances here.

From X Factor to Eurovision hopefuls: What next for The Twins?

THIS sister act has been around for a while, hasn't it?

They come across as lovely, warm girls - perfect say for kids' TV, but they're not Eurovision material really, are they?

Or perhaps I should say they could be, if the competition this year wasn't so strong.

Personally, I find it a tiny bit annoying to see them encouraged to flag up how they feel they 'are the same person' - as they do in the video below. But I understand that's how these things work.

And here's how they did on X Factor:

The Watson Twins to tour North America

IDENTICAL twins Chandra and Leigh Watson, The Watson Twins, kick off a North American tour on July 9, 2008, in Washington, D.C.

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~ Posted by Becky, who also blogs at Deep Muck Big Rake and Being Savvy: Tampa. Write her at becky_handsfull@yahoo.com.

Proclaimers launch suicide awareness bid

YOU'VE got to love The Proclaimers, haven't you? I'm convinced they once played Wolverhampton Poly while I was a student there but the memory is very hazy. I hope I'm not mixing them up with Doctor and the Medics or The Wurzels. That would be really stupid.

Anyway the Scottish brothers have told how their lives have been touched by suicide - a 'final taboo' as they launched a new Government initiative called Talk Listen Save Lives. There's lots more details here.