Andy D'Agorne

View of one of the three peaks!

Spent the weekend near Ingleton with Chechelele, learning some new songs, eating, chatting and not talking politics! Going for walks in a group is a good way to get exercise and spending a whole weekend together makes for a more cohesive group (well it did for us!) The walk on Sunday proved to be a good choice with sunshine while the people of York were getting wet! My map reading skills and a 30 year old OS map that I took with me 'just in case it came in useful' proved to be a winner when we balked at paying £4.50 each for the right to walk the waterfalls walk. I suggested we could do an alternative walk, and it eventually transpired that we visited the same falls approached from a different direction avoiding the toll booth.

We also found the ideal setting for the cover of our next album (if we ever produce another) - some 30+ stepping stones across the river!

 The workshop leader who came up from Cambridge learnt the Spanish song from a choir in Cuba - it turns out that Rowena had been there with the Sheffield Socialist Choir who I used to sing with, and we will be meeting up again when I go to their 20th birthday reunion in May. I really hope that Chechelele decide to add this one to our repertoire as I really like the Spanish songs we used to sing in Sheffield and it reminds me of them. If you want to learn some songs of struggle for justice there are workshops by Ali Burns and Pete Moser as well as a concert at the Octogon Centre on the weekend of May 17th/18th - both are accomplished musicians/ song writers, Ali from Laurieston and Pete now based in Lancaster/Morecombe area. Will all be a bit strange, like an old school reunion after leaving Sheffield some 8 years ago now.