Biker

Forgot to post this earlier. No, don't panic, HoF hasn't bought a Honda 800VFR. Just went for a cool spin on a friend's to check he hadn't lost his nerve for big bikes! Lovely to ride, but at 220kg, a bit too heavy to manoeuvre into parking position on a slope. (Phew!).

Cliches

I'm wrong about wanting to get my money's worth. How easily I slip into the world's cliches. What I really want is not to miss anything that's going, which is why I get in a muddle here when there are so many events on.
Yesterday there were two morning events: a village coffee mroning (yes, of course, yet another fundraiser, but good for socialising too) and an apple-pressing day. I went to both, took two washing-up bowls of apples to the latter and returned with 8 litres of apple juice. Then in the evening I went to a Christian meeting where Gerry McClelland was playing. We used to have a record of hers. Where did it go? Does anyone else remember her singing in the late 60's?
Now we're studying flights to Africa..............

Birthday treat

HoF's annual birthday treat for the past few has been gong to Bridgnorth Jazz Festival. We buy stroller tickets so that you can go to different venues (usually pubs) and hear different artists. I usually try and do the lot, to get my money's worth of course. But this year we stuck together having decided the best stuff was where the tunes were, and with the singers, all female. This is H0Fs favourite keyboard player, Craig Milverton, and the other one also with long blonde hair is Laura Collins. Usually the average age concerns us, too many oldies, but this year there was a young couple performing. The pianist was a former Cambridge graduate now at the Guildhall where presumably he is learning to play 'proper' music too. And there was even a toddler in the audience, jigging about to the rhythm.

Yes, his treat, but I like it too.