I’ve had a really good day today performing in a local school Stanbridge Lower as part of their World War Two day. What I love about performing in schools are the children – they have such energie and I enjoy engaging with them and getting them intested in the music of the 40s, harnessing their exuberance and using it in a positive way. Some of the children were as young as 4 – with many of the older children dressed as evacuees – nearly every one had made their own gas mask box and flag! Wonderful!
I do sometimes worry though that when I go into a school I have the habbit of turning into Joyce Grenfell, as I’ve got one of those sorts of voices! However children do respond rather well to it and now I come to mention it so do the parents! Ha ha. I did meet a George today but he was very well behaved as were all the children – So hats off to Stanbridge Lower and thankyou for inviting me!
Towmorrow I’m off to the recording studio to put some songs into production  for my Evette the Spivette show – I’ve also got some other tracks to pick up too so it’s full steam ahead! Keep Watching and Toodle Pip for Now! ;->

I’ve had a really good day today performing in a local school Stanbridge Lower as part of their World War Two day. What I love about performing in schools are the children – they have such energie and I enjoy engaging with them and getting them intested in the music of the 40s, harnessing their exuberance and using it in a positive way. Some of the children were as young as 4 – with many of the older children dressed as evacuees – nearly every one had made their own gas mask box and flag! Wonderful!
I do sometimes worry though that when I go into a school I have the habbit of turning into Joyce Grenfell, as I’ve got one of those sorts of voices! However children do respond rather well to it and now I come to mention it so do the parents! Ha ha. I did meet a George today but he was very well behaved as were all the children – So hats off to Stanbridge Lower and thankyou for inviting me!
Towmorrow I’m off to the recording studio to put some songs into production  for my Evette the Spivette show – I’ve also got some other tracks to pick up too so it’s full steam ahead! Keep Watching and Toodle Pip for Now! ;->

Sorry I didn’t get to post a blog yesterday but I was out doing a swinging 50s and 60s show for a private party in the beautiful Buckinghamshire Village of Mursley. What a wonderful do that was – Thankyou for inviting me to entertain! I’m getting more and more bookings to sing the 50s and 60s and don’t forget I shall be at the Midland Railway on the 14th & 15th July doing their 1960s event so I hope you can make it along!
After my show yesterday I did something which I hardly ever get the chance to do – I sat down and watched some TV. ITV 3 is my favourite channel it shows all the programs I love Miss Marple, Doc Martin, Foyle’s War and Poirot, perfect! In truth I see alot of myself in Doc Martin I’m straight to the point where perhaps I should bite my touge – what can I say I have a firey artistic spirt! Although when I have my ATS uniform on I look most like Sam from Foyle’s War! But don’t worry I didn’t just sit there and watch TV I did do some hat making too and my latest work is comming on splendly. I’ve been finding it hard to find strong enough thread to sew with in the colours I wanted so I had the brain wave to use embrodary silk as silk is the strongest fiber going and it works perfectly! Why didn’t I think of it before!
Today I’m off to a Tea Dance as I fancy a bit of  a Swish
Keep Watching – Bye for Now!

Sorry I didn’t get to post a blog yesterday but I was out doing a swinging 50s and 60s show for a private party in the beautiful Buckinghamshire Village of Mursley. What a wonderful do that was – Thankyou for inviting me to entertain! I’m getting more and more bookings to sing the 50s and 60s and don’t forget I shall be at the Midland Railway on the 14th & 15th July doing their 1960s event so I hope you can make it along!
After my show yesterday I did something which I hardly ever get the chance to do – I sat down and watched some TV. ITV 3 is my favourite channel it shows all the programs I love Miss Marple, Doc Martin, Foyle’s War and Poirot, perfect! In truth I see alot of myself in Doc Martin I’m straight to the point where perhaps I should bite my touge – what can I say I have a firey artistic spirt! Although when I have my ATS uniform on I look most like Sam from Foyle’s War! But don’t worry I didn’t just sit there and watch TV I did do some hat making too and my latest work is comming on splendly. I’ve been finding it hard to find strong enough thread to sew with in the colours I wanted so I had the brain wave to use embrodary silk as silk is the strongest fiber going and it works perfectly! Why didn’t I think of it before!
Today I’m off to a Tea Dance as I fancy a bit of  a Swish
Keep Watching – Bye for Now!

Today I did all my paper work this morning and then poped down the gym this afternoon. What is it about men in gyms? Two chaps tring to work out with weights which were clearly too heavy – unable to hold the weight and banging the the equipment about so I told them straight. “That weight is too heavy for you you need to lower it”. Needless to say they left a little embaressed-but really who do they think they are kidding!
This afternoon I picked up my new power amp and I have to say I’m really pleased with it, it’s so light and I got a good trade in on my old one which to be honest I’m really glad to see the back of! I’m splashing out on a new smaller fight case for it which will keep everything compact and light giving me more space for my dresses and hats. As you can see by the photo I like big hats – this is one of my creations with Michel of Shore Patrol taken at Kent and East Sussex railway last year. I shall be there again this year on the 19th and 20th May and Bassingbourn on the 12th and 13th so I hope you will be able to make it. Bassingbourn is a new event billed as a WW2 1940s War-Time Weekend and Musical Extravaganza and the K&ES railway one is a well established event where you can see my Evette the Spivette show for the first time. I also join forces with The Cinque Port Lindy Hoppers film fottage of which you can see by clicking onto my web-site and You Tube channel.
Keep watching :->

Today I did all my paper work this morning and then poped down the gym this afternoon. What is it about men in gyms? Two chaps tring to work out with weights which were clearly too heavy – unable to hold the weight and banging the the equipment about so I told them straight. “That weight is too heavy for you you need to lower it”. Needless to say they left a little embaressed-but really who do they think they are kidding!
This afternoon I picked up my new power amp and I have to say I’m really pleased with it, it’s so light and I got a good trade in on my old one which to be honest I’m really glad to see the back of! I’m splashing out on a new smaller fight case for it which will keep everything compact and light giving me more space for my dresses and hats. As you can see by the photo I like big hats – this is one of my creations with Michel of Shore Patrol taken at Kent and East Sussex railway last year. I shall be there again this year on the 19th and 20th May and Bassingbourn on the 12th and 13th so I hope you will be able to make it. Bassingbourn is a new event billed as a WW2 1940s War-Time Weekend and Musical Extravaganza and the K&ES railway one is a well established event where you can see my Evette the Spivette show for the first time. I also join forces with The Cinque Port Lindy Hoppers film fottage of which you can see by clicking onto my web-site and You Tube channel.
Keep watching :->

I’ve just got in through the door – I had a morning show today and I’ve been out doing manly things this afternoon buying bungy straps for speakers, gaffer tape and trying out power amps. At long last I think I’ve found the one that best suites me a Peavey 1PR 1600 and it’s so wonderfuly light too! Many of the amps one see now are very bassy which I don’t like. What I look for is clarity and this one really works well with my Ev speakers and gives me a lovely sound particuly when I sing Opera. I also liked the sound it gave me when I did Rock and Roll too. I can also get a good trade in on my old one. Job done! Thank-you for recomending the one on e-bay Glynn but I really need one right away and I wanted to be able to try it before I bought it. Its so difficult to know one from the other with-out trying them out with my 4 Ev 300 speakers first but I feel very positive about this amp where many of the others I  could hardly lift and belive me thats saying something because I’m quite strong!
Tonight I’m going to be looking at photographs with a photographer friend of mine who is going to be helping me down load from USB to CD so I had better be taking notes. I hope to have some more new photographs for you to look at before long so do keep watching and bye for now! ;->

I’ve just got in through the door – I had a morning show today and I’ve been out doing manly things this afternoon buying bungy straps for speakers, gaffer tape and trying out power amps. At long last I think I’ve found the one that best suites me a Peavey 1PR 1600 and it’s so wonderfuly light too! Many of the amps one see now are very bassy which I don’t like. What I look for is clarity and this one really works well with my Ev speakers and gives me a lovely sound particuly when I sing Opera. I also liked the sound it gave me when I did Rock and Roll too. I can also get a good trade in on my old one. Job done! Thank-you for recomending the one on e-bay Glynn but I really need one right away and I wanted to be able to try it before I bought it. Its so difficult to know one from the other with-out trying them out with my 4 Ev 300 speakers first but I feel very positive about this amp where many of the others I  could hardly lift and belive me thats saying something because I’m quite strong!
Tonight I’m going to be looking at photographs with a photographer friend of mine who is going to be helping me down load from USB to CD so I had better be taking notes. I hope to have some more new photographs for you to look at before long so do keep watching and bye for now! ;->