No slamming of car doors in the night, no-one trying to double park, or in their car with all the winders open talking to Aunt Maud about the state of their marriage. Its nice and quiet round here.Some days no-one passes by at all. It’s called “I Remember ( The Simple Things)” Have a Lovely Day. Thought you might like to hear the first mix of one of our newest batches of songs. Hallo Beautiful People 5 years today our first album was released and we are still walking the freedom line. So now it’s posted everywhere in the crazy social media flurry you have to do, so sorry if you have I REMEMBER (THE SIMPLE THINGS) Here is our new video that we did actually finish 2 months ago but been too raw to post. Pretty grim round here due to Gitika losing her mum and we are all very sad. and counting I’m Not Gonna Rock This Boat SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY – Bishopgate Singers Somebody has to get the job of taming those amazingly powerful voices….guess who? I love inclusivity…most of the time! The Bishopsgate Singers is a community choir with no audition, and the sound is amazing! Once in a while we get a beautifully, slightly out of tune foghorn (sometimes several) who seems not to realise that there are no boats to be called to safety, that it is actually sunny outside, or that they are deafening the person next to them who is too polite to say anything. On Monday the Bishopsgate Singers do a stonking sharing of the Motown and Soul songs we have been practising this term. The two animals take absolutely no notice of each other. It has taken a shine to doing this, every morning this week. It is sitting at the back of the garden when the stray ginger cat arrives, sits at the window, pressing its nose to the glass.

A small fox comes and just hangs out, scratching it’s fleas, soaking up a little bit of sun between the rain storms. Chilling in my back room this morning and realise I have not one, but two rusty coloured visitors in our little London garden. After appearing at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, he wrote and recorded '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay' with Steve Cropper, which became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts after his death in a plane crash.

Sitting on the dock of the bay year