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Chris Drake
Sep 25, 20201 min read
Music Stand
A suggestion from Lesley .... GLEAM Sheet Music Stand Metal with Carrying Bag Condition: New Sold by: GLEAM MUSIC UK Fulfilled by Amazon...
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Chris Drake
Sep 23, 20201 min read
A New Term Singing
Not everyone had a few months off....... Our own Lesley! https://youtu.be/7HX-b0677VU Looking forward to seeing everyone at the rehearsal!
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Jean & Pete
Sep 20, 20201 min read
Are you sitting comfortably?
Congratulations to you all, we have so enjoyed your daily updates - where are you going next? Jean got very dewy eyed about Crianlarich...
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Chris Drake
Sep 20, 20202 min read
998 miles in 12 days!!!
We finished yesterday (Saturday 19th September 2020). 998 miles in 12 days, we are all feeling relieved and tired. Memories full of the...
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Chris Drake
Sep 18, 20201 min read
Oh Happy Days !!!!
What a good day (Thurs 17 Sept) that has been; we left Inverness and over the bridge leading out of the city there was the faintest...
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Chris Drake
Sep 17, 20201 min read
Following barrels full of whisky!
Like many times on the route before after something unpleasant (cold, aches, feeling demoralised) something wonderful is seen; a view or...
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Chris Drake
Sep 16, 20201 min read
A soaking!
Had a hard and wonderful cycle today (Tuesday 15th) on the road to Fort William from Crianlarich. There was a hard incline going past The...
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Chris Drake
Sep 15, 20202 min read
Gadget failure!
We got lost yesterday (Monday 14 Sept) as the navigation gadgets could not load the planned ride. I saw some PV panels and wondered why...
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Chris Drake
Sep 13, 20201 min read
Over Shap Fell!
Friday was a hard day with wind and urban traffic to concentrate on we were tired when we arrived north of Lancaster in the rain....
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Chris Drake
Sep 11, 20202 min read
Day 5: Much Wenlock
This had been a long day; over 6 hours in the saddle and 84 miles. Fortunately the afternoon was spent on the Cheshire plain and was flat...
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Chris Drake
Sep 10, 20201 min read
Anthony's Blog: Wye valley to Monmouth
The cycling has gone well today, I am still staggered by the scenery encountered; the morning we went up the Wye valley to Monmouth,...
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Chris Drake
Sep 9, 20202 min read
Anthony Wilkinson, MCC bass tackles the miles!!!
" Together with an other Marnhull couple we are hoping to complete a Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle. We set off Sunday morning in...
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Chris Drake
Aug 11, 20201 min read
Holiday time
Thank you to all the DJs who have entertained us over the past 4 weeks - a varied and international selection of music. The Blog is going...
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Jean & Pete
Aug 7, 20201 min read
Change of mood
This man is famous around the world and has attained the pinnacle of his profession by playing at 'Marnhull Village Hall'. This clip...
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Jean & Pete
Aug 6, 20201 min read
Reasons for missing choir
This performer was artist-in-residence at the BSO last year which led to more than one absence from choir by us. We realise this is not...
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Jean & Pete
Aug 5, 20201 min read
Early memories
My earliest musical memory is of a wind up gramophone and this immortal classic (probably accounts for quite a lot) - Pete...
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Jean & Pete
Aug 4, 20201 min read
A little more restrained.
We first saw this performer when she was a mere slip of an eighteen year old playing with the Philharmonia at Dorking Halls. We were...
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Jean & Pete
Aug 3, 20201 min read
Try again
We thought we had done this earlier but nothing seems to have happened. This wa designed to blow away that Monday Morning feeling but...
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Jean & Pete
Aug 2, 20201 min read
Double jeopardy
When we first met some 25 years ago we discovered we had fairly similar, if somewhat wide-ranging tastes in music, anything played live...
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ann
Aug 1, 20201 min read
Signing off - for now...
Steve and I had this at our wedding. The words seemed to say it all then and they do today as well. It's been fun picking out some pieces...
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