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  “The music never stopped”   (The Grateful Dead 1975) Not someone who is  gratefully dead...   ... more a case of someone who is  grateful, not to be so !     As I have, previously alluded to, music constitutes a very large and important part of my life.    This is not an entirely new form of behavior... it has been a characteristic of mine, since early childhood. Hence, the above Grateful Dead quotation, is rather appropriate!   As we will see though, aspects of it, have however been  affected by consequences of my accident.    Cutting to the chase...   My involvement with music, now takes several forms. Namely...   ·        Listening ·        Playing ·        Composing; and ·        Recording   So, first:   ·        Listening to it   Listening to recorded music, takes up a lot of my time.   Being a “man of a certain age”, I don’t really go for streaming.   In any event, I like my musical interests to be represented by something tangible.   I therefore own many hundreds of CDs, and m
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  “Well, we are volunteers of America,   Volunteers of America”   (Jefferson  Airplane  1969)   I guess that Stockport is close enough!   Notwithstanding geographical inaccuracy,  this is indeed about volunteering.     As you may have picked up, I now spend a fair chunk of my time, in  the provision of voluntary services.   I am pleased to repot that this is of my own volition, rather than a legal requirement!   I have mentioned many (if not all!) of these activities before, but I just wanted to take the opportunity of providing a little further elaboration.   The trigger for this post has been 2 recent events.   More will follow, but for now: Today marked my 90th attendance at Bramhall parkrun, for the purpose of providing voluntary services; and  Quite recently, I was presented with this at Walthew House: Parkrun   You may have heard of parkrun (and yes – a lowercase “p” is the correct branding!).   These are series of weekly, timed 5k events, in which participants are encouraged to