timbloke
Member
I thought i'd share this one with you... just because it really cheered me up...
First i didn't leave work until nearly 7 tonight, because i couldn't get the work i was doing finished. still didn't finish it
but thought "bugger this I'm off" but was in a rate bad mood... fed up i was...
on the way home i decided to stop in Sainsbury's to pick up some food, and whilst standing at the checkout i heard a band strike up with once in royal, followed by away in a manger. This really cheered me up, having been in tesco's last night doing it all myself..
then got home, and decided to go and join the other half of Stannington Band, who were playing at a pub not far from me...
This was the most amazing experience to someone new to Stannington, and i'd urge you all to come along next year to experience it...
One pub, full of people aged between 18(ish) and 80(ish)....
One band of about 10....
Loads of traditional carols and the local carols... something i'd not even heard of until this season... but everyone in the pub knew every word, even the unwritten little choruses, the harmonisations.. the lot...
after a couple of hours of playing, they wanted more, and kept singin, even as i left feeling hungry and tired, they kept singing... it was the closest as a bandsman i think i'll ever get to being a footballer, it was almost like chanting on the terraces, and has more than put me in the christmas mood...
thanks to everyone in Stannington for making my year
i look forward to succesful years ahead with them

First i didn't leave work until nearly 7 tonight, because i couldn't get the work i was doing finished. still didn't finish it
on the way home i decided to stop in Sainsbury's to pick up some food, and whilst standing at the checkout i heard a band strike up with once in royal, followed by away in a manger. This really cheered me up, having been in tesco's last night doing it all myself..
then got home, and decided to go and join the other half of Stannington Band, who were playing at a pub not far from me...
This was the most amazing experience to someone new to Stannington, and i'd urge you all to come along next year to experience it...
One pub, full of people aged between 18(ish) and 80(ish)....
One band of about 10....
Loads of traditional carols and the local carols... something i'd not even heard of until this season... but everyone in the pub knew every word, even the unwritten little choruses, the harmonisations.. the lot...
after a couple of hours of playing, they wanted more, and kept singin, even as i left feeling hungry and tired, they kept singing... it was the closest as a bandsman i think i'll ever get to being a footballer, it was almost like chanting on the terraces, and has more than put me in the christmas mood...
thanks to everyone in Stannington for making my year