I love this time of year - new term, new notebook, new songs (or are they..... more of that in a minute). Sitting down to plan for the...

The people behind Soup & Sing and Morning Zing - me and my friend of over 20 years, Alison Scott. This morning, we sang our last two...

My song 'Lights' is 10 years old this year. When I wrote it for Harbour Lights Community Choir in Amble, I had no idea that it would be...

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Feeling very cheery and definitely going through a 'I love my job' phase, mostly because I have taken a good look at my working week/year...

International Women's Day. A Celebration of women talking and working. This is a photo of myself and Mary, Chair of Harbour Lights...

This Is Home..... the title of a song by Sophia Efthimiou that our choir, along with many others, have been singing for a couple of years...

Throw her in the sea! Well, that's one thing I have done post-Covid and it certainly isn't doing any harm. I get it now, I understand all...

Singing is hard work, and fun, and disciplined, and energising, and exhausting, and joyful. We must practice, as with all instruments,...

Last Thursday started stormy and unpromising, but by 11am the sun shone and the wind dropped a bit and we were able to meet on Howdiemont...

I love this photo of me leading Harbour Lights in a sea shanty (and I bet I racked up the activity points on my very visible Fitbit!),...

It had been a while since I had heard this remark, which came recently from a friend visiting for the day, slightly bemused by my job and...

I like this picture, taken a few weeks ago, of these trees which, though clearly all-but-uprooted at some time, have nevertheless carried...

January and February aren't my favourite months..... that is hardly a startling revelation, it's probably true for many of us. I dealt...

I was so glad I was able to ‘get a gig in’ in February this year, before we had to put our instruments away and singing became a no-no! I...

My piece Lights, written for Amble’s Community Choir Harbour Lights, was selected as one of 7 songs for a national charity festival,...

After 8 years, BlueJam Alnwick Creative Music Club came to an end in 2016, but they recorded their composition Dystopia, about a...