Being Friday the Fifteenth Day of March, 2019 ...

Being also the day of Comic Relief ...

A Posthumous Message from RVW ...

Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams, erstwhile president of EFDSS, is reported to have once asserted thus ...

The practice of rewriting a folk song is abominable.

I wouldn't trust anyone to do it except myself.

(https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thetwomagicians.html)

Take note all those who indulge in gender substitution, and, worst of all ... PARODY!

Being Friday the First Day of February, 2109 ...

20.10 hours ...

Why do I feel a song coming on?

Actually, with many thanks to all those stalwart souls who braved the winter weather, it got better!

Roger, always inquisitive, posed a question: "In folk songs why are ships described as 'gallant'?"
Is it something to do with square-rigging?
After all, there is a sail known as the topgallant, (or t'gallant.)
That's the one immediately above the upper main topsail.
Above the t'gallant you may find a sail known as a royal and a sky-sail ...

So, where is the gallant?

Further conundra were considered ...

• Why are the waists of fair maidens always 'small and slender'?
• Why are fingers long and small?
• How can a gold ring be gay?
• Why are steeds always milk-white?

Then we went home quietly humming the tune to this song, as performed by Christopher ...

Being Friday the 25th Day of January, 2019 ...

Lynda needed a ride across the river ...

I'll give any money!

Christopher took us to a Devon market ...

Heave down your prong and stamp along ...

Stuart brought along his friend, James ...

Go in peace!