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musicians in partnership with communitiesA crack in the leaden sky is followed by the rumble of distant thunder. The icy rain begins to fall in sheets. The sky is falling on the street people in...
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I had met up with Walter some months ago at the house of my friends Val and John, who is also my road manager. Walter Kohl is a writer from Austria and a fan. We talked about collaborating on a book...
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Any one who has hosted a FDPFAFDW event can apply directly to firstsupper@btinternet.com for tickets for the show below. Tickets are £15-00.First come, first served, first supper :)T I C K E T O U...
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Paraschiv Tony, myself and Trude giving it max after the showWhat can I say about the trip that took me the furthest north I have ever been? It is difficult to sum up the good times I had there with...
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Sometimes a community has to act in a unified way to achieve essential solutions which will not be achieved by other means. Our Daily Bread is as much about facilitating a community...
View Articleat Tim's party
Galadriel - Tim - your's trulyPeople ask me for impossible things sometimes and sometimes I tell people that some thing I don't want to do is impossible. A little bit naughty but better to do that than...
View Articlemusic in my head
photo by Bev EdwardsIt was near dark on the Suffolk Stour when the big momma pike took my little jerk bait. A ten minute struggle ensued and this fine fish was on the landing mat and then quickly back...
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pic Bev EdwardsFinal preparations for the concert in the church at Upholland were coming to a close by Thursday evening. My rehearsal with the St Thomas the Martyr church choir for their chorus parts...
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sheerness on seaSo it is time to reach out to you with a new post. So you will notice my repeated use of the word "so" at the beginning of the sentences. The word has begun to appear at the beginning...
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winter skyAs 20014 draws to a close I think I will be pleased to see 2015. I have been ill for the past two weeks and so the things I planned to do such as some writing and preparation for the new year...
View Articleje suis charlie
"I am Charlie" is the evocative statement that rang around the world after the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. The subsequent events are widely known if not understood. What kind of...
View Articleemails from the road
hertzberg festival promo postcardBack in the day one of the very best music venues in the UK was a magnificent club called Mothers in Erdington, Birmingham. The place had a corrugated tin roof which...
View Articlemy day inside
HMP ElmleyYesterday was different. I spent the day in Her Majesty's Prison Elmley and if I am to tell this tale well it will take some time so please forgive the longer read. This all came about after...
View Articlethe real music club
pic Dave RandellI had a great evening out on Saturday last at the Real Music Club at The Brunswick Pub in Hove. The pub is cosy with pleasant and helpful staff and they do good food. The Real Music...
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Lisa Eva NandyYesterday Lisa Eva Nandy, Labour member of parliament for Wigan asked a question of the prime minister during Prime minister's questions. She asked if Cameron knew that in the past twelve...
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acoustic routes at the brick homeless project sleep out fund raiserpic j bradshawIf Mister Spock had scanned the entire Earth in 1981 he would've stood straight, stepped back and...
View ArticleCameron's last stand?
I blame new labourWhen Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was defeated at the battle of Little Big Horn the account was glorified as an heroic stand against the overwhelming number of braves of Crazy...
View Articleevery precious moment
we know nowwhat we can bewe came this wayso we might feelall the joy and sadnesslove that's realI would do it all againevery precious momentI would do it all againagainst the tidewe make our standin...
View Articlevote for change
The current crop of conventional politicians are mostly running scared of Nicola Sturgeon. Why? Because she is a socialist? If that is the case then why are they afraid? In my life I have not...
View Articlestop the rot
“David Cameron and George Osborne believe the only way to persuade millionaires to work harder is to give them more money. But they also seem to believe that the only way to make ordinary people work...
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