Saturday, November 08, 2025

And peace ever after

Have booked tickets for Owain and Henry in Cardiff in November next year! But this time I was sensible and took out cancellation insurance!

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For the church newsletter I've been visiting the different groups that meet in the church hall and featuring one a week so everyone in the church knows what goes on. As a newcomer I didn't have a clue and there are other newcomers now.

Fiddle blankets

Yesterday it was the turn of the Forget-me-not group, a get-together for those with dementia and their carers. A lovely group, all very appreciative of the chance to meet others to chat, to find support, and to have talks, crafts, and sing-songs. Yesterday it was all about remembrance and I ended up staying for the sing-along of old wartime favourites.

I'd never realised quite how moving The White Cliffs of Dover must have been for people living through it. 

There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow
When the world is free.

And even now there's a poignancy to it as we look about world.



6 comments:

Boud said...

Vera Lynne! I remember. And I remember wondering if there'd be bananas when the world was free. My older sibs described them to me, and oranges, because I'd never seen them.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

How exciting to see Michael Sheen on stage! Have you seen him in a live performance before?

Liz Hinds said...

Not a performance, only the evening chat with Martyn Joseph.

Liz Hinds said...

And now we have everything to hand, how times change.

jabblog said...

It's good to know that the church hall is being used so comprehensively. It is very important to the different groups that meet there.

Marie Smith said...

Love those old songs. Those words are appropriate for today!