A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
IT’S snowdrop time. I think these are amongst the most beautiful flowers, and the message that spring is on the way is so welcome. There are about 20 varieties throughout … Continue readingSnowdrops put a spring in my step
Who could resist a title like that? From NY’s 2016 album Peace Trail.
Another Be Good Tanyas spin-off, Sofia released the album No Shame in 2007, from which this is taken. Confusingly, the record is also known as Unreleased, by Po’ Girl.
Eilen, 43, is from Boise, Idaho, and has made seven albums, with which I plan to make myself more familiar. This is from her 2009 collection, Sea of Tears.
This little gem is from the Minnesota singer-songwriter’s 2007 album The West Was Burning. And here’s a live version from 2010 with Jon Neufeld, whom she had just met at … Continue readingMartha Scanlan: Seeds of the Pine
Great to see these founder members of the Be Good Tanyas back together. This is from their 2017 collection Wildflower Blues.
WHEN Liz Truss was Foreign Secretary before her calamitous spell as Prime Minister, the Whitehall gossip was that senior civil servants compared their problems in briefing her on overseas policy … Continue readingIn Ted we trust
One of the rockier selections from the hairy Dandelion stalwarts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NJrNjwmRIE
From the early 1980s, and he’s still going strong.
SOME months ago my husband Alan was walking our labrador pup beside the brook which runs behind our house and then through the centre of our village when he got … Continue readingOur little crayfish haven