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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 32

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Hope not hate – seemed a good idea at the time and still is! I am now on half term so this will be a short one. It’s not often that news events crash into my […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 31

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Looking forward to a week in the van Half term is coming and with it the thought of a week in the trusty van firstly alongside the Oxford canal and then onto the wilds of broadest […]
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Setting off from last week’s Felice Brothers’ ‘Jazz On The Autobahn’ let’s connect with something to do with highways. If that sounds too easy we shall stick with that exact German definition and see what adventure […]
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Classic Clips: Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young & Jones

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The Sixties were a strange time.  A time when popular chart artists might be given their own television variety show on which they could showcase their own talents and have musical guests brighten up proceedings.  Sometimes […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 30

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Steady as she goes… Things are improving at school despite a feeling that a stable door has been shut after the horse has not only exited the building but has taken up residence in an EU […]

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