Thank you Queen for today’s title!

Sorry if you want Story Telling stuff today today’s blog it is totally self-indulgent on my part about football! Had a wonderful day yesterday bedecked in orange and wearing my Boater at one of my spiritual homes the home of the mighty Hatters. Luton are called the Hatters because the Town was important for making hats. So the Boater comes out for special occasions! Yesterday if we won we would be champions. The boys duly delivered!

It has been a roller coaster of a ride and we have now excorcised the dark years following our shameful treatment by the football authorities. It has been a fantastic season and we have played some great football. Also incredibly proud of the club for its strong ethical stance. First club to pay the Living Wage to all it’s employees, not having a gambling company for sponsorship, working hard to be inclusive to all communities. So it is refreshing in the cut throat world of professional sport to see. Not only that when the new ground is built it will significantly regenerate the whole town.

So when I went to bed eventually I went to sleep grinning from cheek to cheek!

You can guess by the title what quite a bit of today’s blog will be about but I will start with Story Telling after all that is what this web site and blog should be all about!

The Two Severn Bores finished our mini run of Severn Stories and Songs last night as part of the Wotton Arts Festival. We were pleased how well it went, we have certainly improved our all round performance since we started this doing this act last January. We were much smoother on our links. Dan’s songs were excellent, he is a superb musician.  I was pleased how my Stories have developed over this time. We are hoping to write an another act in the near future.

Had a lovely day Bird Watching before the gig with children from Granard Primary School Putney at Wick Court. Good view of a Chiffchaff and Woodpeckers.

Finally my wonderful football team achieved promotion last night without playing! So we now are back in Division 2 (it is called the Championship these days) after a roller coaster of ride. Felt quite emotional reading so many congratulatory tweets and listening to club legend Mick Harford our interim manager. Next season will be different I think!