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Hello Hello to all Hivians, Silver Bloggers, music fans and anyone else reading this.

So we have a ttt mixed up with a silver bloggers chronicle today! A 2 for 1 !

Firstly we have a silver bloggers chronicles which then inspires the ttt or threetunetuesday that follows it!

This week's The Silver Bloggers Chronicles - Prompt 17 is ....

Tattoo me this - Tattoo me that...

What about you? Do you have a tattoo and what's the story behind it...

The short and long answer is NO!

Thank you Silver Fish @mondoshawan for this prompt!

I graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree. It was to a design house I went and suits were the order of the day, or at the very least a shirt and tie.

No fluffing way were tattoos appropriate and in fact you would not even get the job.

There were a few girls with the tramp stamp on the back above their butt but none of the girls in our company. Even when I worked in London for Bechtel tattoos were still a nono.

Later on first Mrs T wanted one with her best fried. They got identical little celtic crosses on their shoulder blades.

One reason I could never imagine having one was the thought of some 80 year old wifey with saggy skin and a baufin tattoo!

The other main reason why I never got one when they became trendy was one night I was on a river cruise. It was my birthday and Mrs T and my parents who we had taken on the cruise went to bed early. Well I was all dolled up in a suit and wanted to party! So off I went into the bright lights of Potsdam as we had moored there to see Berlin the next day. I was half pished already and went staggering off on my own and god only knows where I ended up. It was some seedy wee dive of a place. Everyone was brilliant and we were knocking back German spirits like they were going out of fashion. I was asking about communism and what they all felt. Then it got onto the war. Maybe being Scottish and brazen with drink, but my German was flowing in my head. Then one older man who was matching us drink for drink rolled up his sleeve and showed me a faded tattoo that was numbers and started with an A. It transpired that he had been in Auschwitz and was made to do forced labour. That was what actually saved him.

I was utterly gobsmacked, I mean what could you say. I have stared death in the face and talked myself out of it. But what was done to them, it was horrific. And now what I see happening. When will humans learn to get along with each other.

I digress, so yeah tattoos are not for me.

So it is a No No No from me....

Which leads me nicely into part 2 of this post ....

But first some of the lyrics from tune number 3 ...

It's a thrill of a lifetime, it's like a dream come true I'm goin' downtown, I'm gonna get a tattoo So when I fly my colours, red, green, and black, I know it's gonna stay there 'cos I can't give it back, no sir
No one ever told me and no one even tried and when my Mama found out, She broke down and cried
No tattoos, gotta stay cool, my Mama never raised no fool

No tattoos, gotta stay cool, my Mama never raised no fool .... who recognises the song?

Haha yeah my mother would have fluffing freaked out 🤣

It is Tuesday and that of course means that it's #ttt or #threetunetuesday and so it's time to share some tunes with you!

@ablaze started #ttt 230 weeks ago! Go check out what it is all about on his last post [Tom Waits (Nighthawks at the Diner) for Three Tune Tuesday - Week 229 - win some HBI](@ablaze/tom-waits-nighthawks-at-the-diner-for-three-tune-tuesday-week-229-win-some-hbi

There could only be one no no no tune to kick off ttt230....

Tune 1 - Dawn Penn - No, No No

The version that became a worldwide hit was a re-recording released in 1994. (She had originally recorded a different version in 1967.)

Tune 2 - Destiny's Child - No, No, No Part 2 ft. Wyclef Jean

On we move three years later to 1997 and when this group formed!

I am sure you all know Destiny's Child.. This was the Original Quartet (1997–2000) of:
Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett

That really was some group and of course the one and only Beyoncé went on to even greater things!

We finish up with a fun catchy number about ... yes ... no tattoos!