It’s now Day 15 of my “Enhanced Recovery” following a Partial Knee Replacement at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. What’s my take on all this? The surgery, performed by Mr Sanjay and his team, was a breeze. Ha ha – it must of been the drugs!!! epidural with the trimmings. The wonderful Anaesthetist was true […]
Well friends – I’m on the threshold of the tenth anniversary of the shattering diagnosis of cancer. To be fair, my Consultant, the lovely Dr Flora, said it was a “good” cancer. I sort of beg to differ: but perhaps she was right as I’m able to be writing this tale ten years along the
Well here we are at that time of year! Peace and goodwill towards all people? Well the current (almost perpetual) state of the world seems to contradict that! The song took shape, as many great songs do, around the dining table decked with pizza, crisps, red wine and Guinness! Diarmuid O’Leary, Ida Viant, Kym Wilson-deRoze
Ha ha – that all sounds a bit high-flown! But it’s a song I was fortunate to have composed on a Songwriting campfire lead by Dan Whitehouse – an award-winning artist and excellent teacher and mentor together with Katie Whitehouse (no relation a mover and shaker in the Music Business and a great artist in
My PGL Adventure adventure! First of all – this is the “Intro”. The time we first laid our heads on the bed in Llangors was the end of May, after the Bank Holiday.. I can’t remember the actual date now. Subsequent Chapters will reveal much: but dates have evapourated into the dim mists of time..
That’s L I V E rather than going to live in Tokyo Bay. The Songwriters’ Campfires that I’ve been part of recently had an informal campfire on 31st March – thanks to Katie Whitehouse for facilitating and Dan (no relation) Whitehouse for leading us artistically. These songwriting Campfires have been inspirational, creatively motivating and fun.
How did this happen? My dear Lord – we’ve all been spared into this decade of decay, dislocation and dismay – wonderful optimistic words! I hope they have the same opportunities and gifts that I’ve been fortunate to have in this Autumnal phase. I’ve been a poor blogger for the last six months – there’s
The last month or so has not been the best: in terms of my health. Mainly UTIs and knee and leg pains. Despite the fact that chronic pain brings down a wet blanket of despondency I have felt the curative effect of you good folk’s prayers. Any road up – the sum result of this
Ha ha. I’ve been pretty much silent or invisible on my social media since the start of December. I do check our Facebook fairly regularly as there are lots of posts of old steam railways and some of my musical favourites post there. I’m not a Tweeter or an Insta-boy! I don’t seem to be
I’m Back! Where’ve I been for almost 3 months?… carry on reading
(I Know I’m a week or so Late!) That was my song for Advent 2022. Its lyrics are taken from a David Adam “New Psalm in the Celtic Tradition”. The musical activity is all mine – but I’m sharing it with you! Advent Sunday: not on the top of everyone’s Christian festivals. The whole Church’s
