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EB you wrote a good folk song there with nice guitar picking and vocals.   Eb that house down in Glenside in your photo on soundcloud with your song was owned by a Mr.Dorset. He achieved some notoriety in 1956 when he shot dead his wife’s lover George Grandison as Grandison and Mrs Dorset were leaving that house together. The shooting took place on the road outside the property. Mr Dorset was charged with murder, but his (relatively) successful defence of the act as a crime of passion saw him convicted of manslaughter instead, and he served one year in prison. Later in his life Mr Dorset attracted the reputation as an eccentric, sitting naked on his porch in full view of passing trains. He died early in 2011, and the house has since been sold. Herbert Dorset (known as Max Dorset) purchased the house and farm on 241 acres , in 1947 for £1500. He fought as a seaman with the Navy during World War Two and prior to this farmed at Silverstream and worked as a civil servant in the War Pensions Department. After purchasing the property he ran cattle on the land and continued to work for the Pensions Department. In 1951 part of the farm was taken for the Wellington-Foxton motorway. Mr Dorset was paid £1 per acre for the land and 10 shillings per tree lost. For our American friends a Kiwi Pound was worth about two dollars and ten shillings was round about a dollar.

Beamer I love that insight into modern dating. Optimistic with good lyrics in there for a rocking ballad.

Sorry to hear of your loss Jim of your dear Lady.  Bless her for fighting the good fight and though she is now at the end of that struggle Im sure the good memories live on.     

Congratulations on bringing into this world this September  a much loved baby and a man of the future. While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

I love the way they incorporate the violin sound..     

I try and have a look in at chordie once a week. I am not much of a computer  guy, I tend to email more, but I do enjoy reading and checking out the links the good people of chordie post on here.     

Beamer great poem about rising up and riding a new tide.     

TF that is superb on many levels it blew me away thank you for introducing me to Steve Wilson.     

Cheers everyone thank you for your comments. The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. I was chatting about this with a retired journalist who mentioned to me that one of the judges listed as part of their criteria for a good novel is it should be ideologically correct. It seemed to me that " Ideologically Correct"  was an inflexible concept that I would associate with North Korea or Stalinist Russia and Mao’s China.That got me thinking about what stops everyday people from putting  their true thoughts into words and then delivering them out into the world. Pondering that is when I came up with the poem.These Words.     

One of my favourite shops here in  Wellington is Alistair's Music. all sorts of musicians pop in just to play music and just have a chat Here is Alistair and his friend Sarah  playing a beautiful looking Mandoline similar to yours in his shop. He also restores all sorts of string instruments such as the Russian Style Mandolin he is playing which had been repaired back to life.

https://www.facebook.com/alistairsmusic … 653545353/

Neo better than anything I could do. Echo works good in some parts of the song other parts maybe not but still real good.     

I liked the intro talk he is a funny, clever communicator then when they play for a trio there is plenty  to take in with superb drumming and bass over nice guitar work.It moulded well together even when they were playing separate solos at the same time, Good one  TF