Here's To 2010

Sonny Terry & Brownie Maghee

Take Your Partner

Once In Royal David's City

Green Islands: 1954

It's sobering to consider the change of pace and the degradation of some aspects of society wreaked in just fifty-five years.  Nowadays the voice-over wouldn't do at all - far too sexist, m'dear.  There were no 'security guards' in high-viz jackets confiscating parents' cameras or demanding to see CRB checks and no-one threatening to arrest the man feeding the ducks on the grounds that he was littering (oh, yes, it did happen).  There's been a collective, national, loss of innocence; progress is essential and wonderful but not at the expense of a country's heart and soul - there are things we can still learn from the past.

Don't Let's Ask For The Yogurt

Lightning Strikes

RIP: Bo

And I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow,

dropping from the veils of the morning

We Live In Hope