Being The 15th April 2011 ...

Sixteen people attended the City Folk Club for another cosy evening.
Here's what we did:

A Week Before Easter: Paul & Colin
I Can't Help Falling in Love with You: David
April Come She Will: Lucy
Fly Me to the Moon: Brenda & Berry
Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy: Roland & Colin
Darling Nellie Across the Sea: Angela
People Will Say We're in Love: Berry & the music machine
Lost Lover Blues: Roger
Ohio River Boat Song: Jane R. & David
Amoreuse (?): Lynda
May You Never Have to Run (?): Mike
Zeppelin: Mick
Director's Chair: Lorna
The Unquiet Grave: Jane & Colin
I'll See You in my Dreams: David
And the Reason is (?): Paul
Floating Down the Dream River: Lucy & Roger
La Vie en Rose: Brenda & Berry
I Wish I Were a Mole in the Ground: Angela
Take These Chains from my Heart: Berry & Paul
Owl and the Pussycat: Roger
Waiting to Hold You (?): Jane R. & David
When the Spring has Come: David, Mick & Roger
Sailing to Philadelphia: Lynda
Catch the Wind: Mike
'Slowish Slip-Jig': Mick & Mike
South Sea Crumble: Lorna
Babes in the Wood: Jane & Colin
Delta Dawn: Lucy & Paul

Everyone had a wonderful time, and we all went home with happy feelings.
Importantly, nobody had to apologise!

P.S. Jane - the one who has the great misfortune of being married to Dogsbody - wishes to thank everyone at CFC who has undertaken to sponsor her forthcoming charitable bike-ride in aid of Action Medical Research. She promises to attend again in the near future to collect your money!

Foreign object

I ask, out of academic interest only: who was the clown who put a Comic Relief Red Nose in my guitar? And do they have any instructions on how to get it out? (I suppose I must be grateful that it wasn't a Giggler).

Being Almost The Week Before Easter ...

Every year someone asks, "Will the City Folk Club be meeting on Good Friday?"
Every year the answer has been, "Yes."
So shall it be for Friday 22nd April this year.
For that evening, Dogsbody will be absent. However, someone else will extract money from you!

Furthermore, the following Friday, 29th, is also a public holiday.
For those of us have not received an invitation to that Royal shindig, the City Folk Club will meet as usual on that evening.
In celebration of the occasion, gentlemen will be expected to sport a floral buttonhole:

Ladies are invited to wear headgear that looks something like this:

Available from here.

I am advised that this is known as a 'fascinator'.

(Personally, however, I question that trade description.)

Oh, and gloves will be obligatory!

The challenge will be to play any musical instrument while wearing 'marigolds'.

Grovelling Apologies - a correction

It not being possible, for some reason, to post comments to Mr. Greene's 19th Nervous Breakd- sorry, 'Fit', I am obliged to make this post to record some small correction to the referenced apologies. To wit: a) I have never claimed to be, and rarely am, 'note perfect', and I was not during Mr. Greene's rendition - however, had Mr. Greene performed as we rehearsed, I might have coped better. b) I have not been offered compensation, let alone waived rights to it. Mr. Greene can expect to hear from my solicitor.
An understanding and compassionate being that I am, and fully cognisant of the sad effect of advancing years on declining faculties in those over 67, nevertheless, I will, at some future point, regardless of the inherent uncharitableness, definitely have my revenge.