Feature Night at the Somers Trad FC

We don't often have feature nights at the folk club, in the past they've sometimes reduced attendance. However, Ali decided that we should run an evening called 'Passing It On'. The idea was to sing a song you'd learned (i.e. that had been passed to you) and then another, that you wanted others to sing (passing it on). Though I was a bit pessimistic, there were many contributions from members.

I'd decided to sing a couple of bits of songs that my father used to sing from his days in the Navy. It was a surprisingly emotional experience (not because of the songs which are, at best, trite) since it took me back to some times/places that I don't often visit in memory -- for some quite good reasons, I think... Ah well!