guido fawkes

Next concert - Clayton village Hall, nr Bradford, 5th February

We have awoke to snow again ... Supposed to be in Clitheroe this evening but we haven't been stuck in yet, fingers crossed!!! It does mean squashing the harp into a small suzuki jeep though and I am limited to one harp at a time! Over Christmas I had to call upon a neighbour for help and the harp ended up sticking out the back window - brrrrr, freezing. Not only that but I was playing in a shop and the door kept being left open. Amazingly there is a video on Facebook and You-Tube (Cobbles and Clay, Haworth 12th December) showing no signs of the frozen fingers! I was at the limit of coldness that night.

Over Christmas my sister and husband surprised us all by booking 3 rooms at the Inn where Guy Fawkes was born. The staff were very proud of their ghost - hmmm - they didn't realise we lived in a house dubbed 'the most haunted house ever' by West Yorkshire Paranormal Society ...! We wandered round York in the snow and watched the ducks huddled under the bridge in the only small patch of unfrozen river water. My sons set off to find St Mary's car park and nearly drove through open gates straight onto the river thinking it was the car park. A small sign of a car toppling into water was spotted last minute!

Off to get some harps finished - Hand-Al sounds so sweet already but needs decorating and 3 more strings! (The trouble with trying to make a small, transportable harp, that can deliver my repertoire.)