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What an excellent evening, and we had only yards to walk home afterward! If you get the opportunity to see the Graffitti Classics perform their slap-stick repertoire do grab a good seat. The YouTube clip below doesn’t convey sufficiently what a huge grin and belly laugh their performance is.

Certainly it isn’t the sort of thing we’ve been used to at Charfield Memorial Hall, but I really hope it’s set a new standard. Perhaps the best thing about our unsophisticated venue was the fact the quartet played wholly unamplified. Not only did it show the strength of some of their voices, the tone of their violins, viola and double bass shone out. Some of those instruments had wonderful expression and I doubt they were cheap. You miss that when an instrument is amplified, filtered, processed…

Yay! for Live Music!

Too cloudy to actually see the sunrise, it was nonetheless a pleasant way to start the weekend. The picture above was taken from the bottom of what will become our new village burial ground. As you can see the view is remarkable, looking east over the village towards Wotton under Edge and the Cotswold Escarpment.

Blessings of the Solstice to all.

Yeah, I feel good. Why not shout about it?

http://www.charfieldparishcouncil.org.uk

It’s the best (nearly)…

At this evening’s annual Parish Council meeting I was voted unanimously into the Chair of the Council. What do you think they know that I clearly don’t?

Very happy to say the new website was extremely well received.

http://www.charfieldparishcouncil.org.uk

It’s based on the same WordPress engine I’m using for this blog, but without comments and stuff. This means that it can be updated by folk with little or indeed no knowledge of HTML, FTP or all the rest of the Internet technobabble that’s normally required for a half decent site.

And that’s only half the good news for CPC. At yesterday’s County Council Planning Committee meeting, the two planning applications for extensions of working hours at the local Cemex owned quarry were refused by an overwhelming majority, after an exciting (no, really!) back and forth arguement between the proposers and [ahem] our side. Glee.