I was approached in December by one of the organisers of the Longframlington Music Festival if I would rehearse and conduct the Sing Out Choir which usually forms for  a couple of months prior to the competitions in June and then performs at the winners’ recital on the last evening of the festival. I did this and the 14 ladies who came along and I tackled some folksongs I’d arranged from New Zealand (including a couple in Maori), a couple of ABBA numbers, and a couple of WW2 songs. We had lots of fun and sang with spirit and tunefulness.