Local Group Report – Worthing – Wednesday 4th July 2018

By popular vote our songs this month focussed mainly on the theme of the event we are due to do at Batemans in August. On an already hot summer evening we warmed up with Thousands or More before turning our attention to working on the wartime songs in our repertoire – Follow Me 'Ome; Ha'nacker Mill; The Ladies Go Dancing at Whitsun; All Things Are Quite Silent and Home, Lads, Home. After the break we discussed My Boy Jack and ways in which we could use it at Bateman's, but since it was not known by many of the singers present this was deferred to a separate session for a smaller group to prepare and perform within the set on the day. We continued with some other requests for other songs in need of a polish – Where Stormy Winds Do Blow and Old Adam. So with some enjoyable singing and quenching of thirsts in good company, our evening was done.