I love ABBA. I’ve been a dyed-in-the-wool fan since the age of 7 or 8. Their music never fails to give me a lift. A few years back, the two male members of the 4 member band (long split up, sniff sniff) got together and wrote a musical called Mamma Mia, which incorporated their most popular songs. And after sell-out successes across the world in theatres, now it is a movie!

For those American friends who have heard me whittering on about ABBA, and have never heard their music, you MUST SEE Mamma Mia, the movie. It has Meryl Streep and Colin Firth in it. Can you really lose? It is being released in Australia (I found my soul country in a way, the Aussies have always LOVED ABBA as much as me) on July 10th, and I am looking forward to it. So is my 6 year-old daughter, LOL. My husband says I’ve corrupted her young . He can look after our 3 year-old while my daughter and I go watch Mamma Mia.

I love listening to ABBA while I walk. It makes me walk faster . And here in Perth there is a 9 kilometre walking / jogging / cycling track along the river. Looks lovely. I’ll be trying it out as soon as the kids are in school.

What’s your favorite exercising music, or the music that is sure to lift your spirits?