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b'The song I have sent you this week is taken from one of my DVDs so there are pictures to go with it\\u2026pictures you will see in your mind\\u2019s eye as you are one of us. Easy to sing about as it is such a great place to live.\\n\\nThey have found a \\u201cnew\\u201d planet in our solar system\\u2026.it\\u2019s so far away you can\\u2019t actually SEE it and it my not ACTUALLY be there\\u2026but by all accounts this is very exciting.\\n\\nNow\\u2026is it me or is all this space stuff a complete waste of money\\u2026we are told that children are starving and there is not enough money to pay the doctors\\u2026then we watch a guy doing sommersaults in a spaceship\\u2026not to mention the thing that landed on a comet as the batteries went flat\\u2026what happened to that?\\u2026plus we have been informed that the richest men in the worlds form 1% of the population and their wealth is equal to the rest of us\\u2026the whole thing is a joke.\\n\\nThere looks like there\\u2019s been a bit of naughtiness in the Tennis fraternity\\u2026.match fixing indeed\\u2026.I don\\u2019t know why everyone is so surprised\\u2026where there\\u2019s gambling and money involved you will get scullduggery\\u2026tennis is probably the easiest game to fix because pros can hit a ball to within 6 inches of where they want it to go\\u2026so if someone has got a few grand on who will double fault first\\u2026no problem.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s a tricky one to trace\\u2026.but I feel sport has lost it\\u2019s way\\u2026even the Olympics are getting boring\\u2026.Tennis has lost it\\u2019s characters like Nastase\\u2026Connors\\u2026McEnroe etc\\u2026now we have Andy Murray who is about as interesting as astrology \\u2026.and Jocavic\\u2026great as he is\\u2026not much entertainment value\\u2026.or am I just getting old?\\n\\nThey had a get together at Fort Perch Rock last Sunday in memory of Harry Prytherch who was a Merseybeat drummer with The Remo Four and did a lot to keep the music alive. It was well attended and they had a couple of solo acts and a couple of bands\\u2026I got up with one of the bands and did a few Rick Nelson songs as Harry once MC\\u2019d a show I did with James Burton. It was a a nice afternoon anf harry would have been delighted with it\\u2026in the words of Harry \\u201cMay the Fort be with you\\u201d.\\n\\n.Great news for our fundraising Wednesdays with The Cheshire Cats\\u2026.Barry Mason no less has offered to come and do a show for us\\u2026.he will sing the million seller hits he has written and talk about how they came about\\u2026I have been dotting out his set in the strange keys he sings in and have got a band together to back him\\u2026I\\u2019ll be playing guitar. His hits include \\u201cDelilah\\u201d\\u2026\\u201dThe Last Waltz\\u201d\\u2026\\u201dBicyclettes de Belsize\\u201d\\u2026.hits for the Drifters \\u2026Tom Jones and Englebert\\u2026etc\\u2026\\u2026.it\\u2019s a big ask but a nice challenge'