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In Les Misérables the revolution has failed. The young men are all dead; the women of Paris mourn their loss: Who will wake them?No one ever will.No one ever told themThat a summer day can kill. Nothing changes, nothing ever willEvery year another brat, another mouth to fill.Same old story, what’s the use of tears?What’sContinue reading “Help! Mayday…”

Yesterday I uncorked a bottle of Australian wine – named after the ’19 crimes’ for which ‘criminals’ could be deported to Australia. The label reads: 19 Crimes is inspired by those who, beginning in 1788 were transported to Australia, for a life of hard labour…’ Some inspiration! There was a £250 prize for a winningContinue reading “From Inspiration to Perspiration”

Hide me nowUnder Your wingsCover meWithin Your mighty hand When the oceans rise and thunders roarI will soar with You above the stormFather, You are King over the floodI will be still and know You are God Musing… on God and what he’s like. These few words give four pictures that fit together to showContinue reading “Still (Hide Me Now)”

…Brenda comes to ‘Singing for Health’ each week, in her wheel chair, with her dog Rosie on her lap; we always sing ‘How Much is that Doggie in the Window?’ in honour of Rosie. The song illustrates what I shall call ‘Doggie Analysis’: Lowestoft Gull Wing Bridge… Two huge sections have arrived and been installed:Continue reading “Doggie Analysis”

Someone, someone,Someone who really loves youWhen someone really loves youThat’s when your life begins This old Crickets song was one of the first that I learnt to play on my guitar… I grew up with simple love songs, love stories… a boy meets a girl, (sometimes a girl meets a boy,) they fall in love,Continue reading “Love… Simple, Complicated or Impossible”

I’m reading ‘Four Meals For Fourpence’. Grace Foakes describes her life in London’s East End in the early 1900s… no electricity, cars, radio, television… washing hung across narrow streets in which children played. Her mother had fourteen children of which only five survived… What was most valuable to Grace? ‘They were happy days in thatContinue reading “What’s Valuable?”

Hands, touching hands, Reaching out, Touching me, Touching you… Sweet Caroline, Good times never seemed so good… Many are introduced to Neil Diamond’s love song ‘Sweet Caroline’ as an anthem belted out at some sports event… Perhaps it expresses something deeper… I’ll call it ‘The Caroline Principle’. Twenty years ago, I conducted many of myContinue reading “The Caroline Principle”

Yesterday we learnt of Len Goodman’s death. Len was a judge on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ when it  was launched in 2004, joining the American ‘Dancing With The Stars’ in 2005… He was respected and loved by many as a competitor, adjudicator, and by ordinary people who watched him on TV. Many paid tribute to him…Continue reading “What Is A Good Man?”

Yesterday… …Over 48,000 ran in the London Marathon. Serious athletes wanted to run a good time… Some ran for charities, dressed as teddy-bears, trees, super-heroes, monsters… Some ran because of very real monsters in their lives… the cancer that had taken a friend or family member… the life limiting illness that has been diagnosed… theContinue reading “Monsters… Godzilla, Dragons and Giants”

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enoughEvery single lie that tells me I will never measure up Am I more than just the sum of every high and every lowRemind me once again just who I am because I need to know In Sunday School I was taught: ‘JOY comesContinue reading “You Say”