Donna Martin: ‘Help Wanted’ by Timothy Tocher Santa needs new reindeer.The first bunch has grown old.Dasher has arthritis;Comet hates the cold.Prancer’s sick of staringat Dancer’s big behind.Cupid married Blitzenand Donder lost his mind. Coral Morgan:…
Jane Carleton Smith: ‘A Politically Incorrect Christmas Poem’ By Harvey Ehrlich ‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck…How to live in a world that’s politically correct?His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”,“Vertically…
Robin Oxborough: ‘Naughty’ from Mathilda This musical version of Roald Dahl’s story was written (brilliantly, in my opinion) by Tim Minchin. There are loads of fantastic songs, but this one has to be one of…
Steve & Debby Richardson: Fairytale of New York Rumour has is that the vocal parts for the original version of this song, recorded by Kirsty McCall & The Pogue’s Shane McGowen, were laid down separately.…
I’m so pleased to say that, according to government guidelines, close contact services such as mine can resume normal operations from next week. So, I will be having a couple more days of Zoom-only lessons,…
Christmas Holiday Dates This year, I am keeping things simple and aligning my Christmas holiday plans with the school Christmas holidays across the region. So, there will be no lessons between Monday 21st December and…
Within hours of the beginning of the first lockdown, music teachers up and down the country collectively came to realise something important about video conferencing technology: that there’s a delay / latency over the line…
A very brief update for this week because things are pretty much the same as they have been for the last couple of weeks in terms of lesson availability. Hopefully, there’ll just be a couple…
I don’t think I need to tell anyone that the UK has gone back into lockdown, and that all non-essential customer facing companies have had to either close or shift to online services only. For…
With immediate effect, all face to face lessons will be suspended until December. If you have a lesson booked in with me, I’ll be in touch within the next few days to arrange a switch…
