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Something old? That's me! Something new? That's this first public appearance of a song written back in February on a brand new video filmed today and posted here while the digital ink was still wet on my PC. Hope you enjoy:

Here's my original for today. It's about the number one destination on my bucket list, way down under. Several of our Seasonistas get a mention Hope you like:

Forgive the intrusion, but I just wrapped up Season 587 and added a Bonus Video to the playlist. Normal "Down Under" service resumes...

Well, it seems a Season is never over until Ralf and/or Sabine sings! That done, SEASON 587 is officially over. Thanks so much for all your contributions. I have given away prizes in the past, but prizes worth having cost more in postage these days than the object given as a prize, so I have...

My second contribution is related to verse two of my song "Roll of the Dice" uploaded earlier in the week. In that verse I tell how Dante fell for Beatrice when they were kids. What I didn't mention was that after that meeting they didn't bump into each other for ten years (easy to imagine...

Your host's first contribution to this Season is a song written especially for this week's theme. It tells how three famous historical couples met and poses the question: "Were those meetings meant to be?" I hope you like:

A thousand apologies. Thine host has been absent in the last 24 hours. Life just got in the way. I wouldn't mind if it were productive creative life, but it was largely administrative, bureaucratic and practical. I Had to go to X Office and then Y office before being sent back to X and forwarded...

Cheers, Val!

A fine 36 hours worth of contributions. Thanks to you all. I have commented on each song on YouTube. It's quite a varied selection from one I suggested sung beautifully by Rob through a mystical one from Voran (the Seasons answer to Joannna Newsome) to a fun take on a Beatles classic with lots...

I used to be friends with Rory. He and I both worked the Albion Fayres. He is such a genuinely great bloke. We're still in touch via Facebook, but we haven't been in each other's presence for decades now.

(or How I met my wife, husband, lover or significant other...) Hi there and welcome to Season 587, As in my last hosting, the theme for this week was inspired by the number of the Season. In my case the number "87" has a huge significance for me, since it was in 1987 that I met "la company de...

My second and last contribution to this Season is another song that was written during FAWM 50/90 2022. The Challenge involved choosing a Book Title from the challenge host's list and then he or she would then choose a line at random from that book and your task was to write a song based on that...

It was not an easy task for me to find a song of mine that fitted the bill. Many of my songs have titles based on a key line from the song. However, I did find two among the songs I have written for FAWM over the last year which have titles that are not quoted in the song and this is the first...

When we moved flat recently, amongst the boxes I hadn't opened since the penultimate move (some 28 years previously) I discovered my diaries from my 20s and early 30s. Sat on a stool surrounded by cardboard boxes still to be explored and sorted, I opened one at random from the period I was...

I may get all up close and personal on another song this week, but meanwhile here is a first-person narrative song I wrote to the prompt "Symphony" as part of a FAWM challenge in 2022. The narrator is the dying Frederick Delius, looking back on his life and still desperately trying to write the...

Here is the Second (and last) of my songs for this season. As I said in the intro to the first song, war is where death and life meet head on. This song deals with the Battle of the Ebre (July-November 1938). The song is dedicated to the young conscripts who were called up especially for this...

I suppose there is no other setting where Life and Death are in such constant play as in a war. This is the first of two songs I want to submit set in the Spanish Civil War. They were both written during FAWM 2023 and will hopefully end up in the repertoire of our historical memory...

My heart sank when I saw the theme. As you will hear, percussion is not my strong point. However, I then thought of a percussion instrument that I won on one of the Seasons hosted by Joko (it's a kind of Myanmar Castanet). So, I thought this was the ideal opportunity to use that for the first...

Ooh, I am waiting for someone to do the Doors' "Soul Kitchen" or Robert Johnson's "Come on in my Kitchen". Meanwhile, here is a song, filmed this morning in our kitchen, that I wrote to express some of the things I would tell my daughter, if she were ever to listen to advice from "an old...