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The song I have sent you this week is one I wrote for the Welsh album I composed for Paul Damian and tells the legend of Beddgelert. I\u2019m sending this one because we have just spent a few days walking in the heart of Snowdonia and it doesn\u2019t get any better\u2026.we also visited a Slate Museum in Llanberis which was incredible\u2026it is built on the site of a Quarry and is mind blowing\u2026and is FREE!!...it is a credit to the Land of Song.\n\nThe news has been covering the terrible tragedy in Napal\u2026.and the journalists have been at there usual mindless interviews with families worried about there relatives caught up in it all\u2026\u201dhow did you feel when you heard the news etc\u2026\u2026\u201d\u2026.how do these fools get employed?....it was good to see the response form rescue and aid workers\u2026.the power of nature brings everything into perspective\u2026.we moan about such trivial things\u2026let\u2019s hope everything that can be done is done.\n\nMichael Flatley is about to retire and has created a \u201cpainting\u201d\u2026 by splashing paint on a canvas and rubbing his hands all over it while river dancing\u2026.it sold for 70 odd grand \u2026maybe I\u2019m missing something here but to me it looked a complete mess\u2026talk about the kings new clothes.\n\nIt reminded me of an art exhibition I went to in Liverpool by Rolph Harris\u2026before his dilemma\u2026and I couldn\u2019t believe the prices they were asking for thumbnail cartoons which couldn\u2019t have taken more than a minute to draw\u2026.when he comes out of jail he should be thrown back in again for ripping us all off\u2026..I can\u2019t imagine they would be worth much now.\n\nBear Grylls has got yet another survival programme on the TV\u2026.I fail to see the point of all this\u2026.apart from Bear proving how hard he is\u2026.it\u2019s an accident waiting to happen\u2026and for WHAT?...so you win the competition and prove you could survive in the jungle\u2026skills you are NEVER likely to use\u2026I find it very uncomfortable viewing......and on the subject of fitness Paula Radcliffe has run her last race\u2026.what a great example to the world of sport\u2026.I don\u2019t know how anyone can run that far\u2026count me out.\n\nI enjoyed the clip you sent me with Penny Page and various co-incidences\u2026.You mentioned Marvin Rainwater who had the 50\u2019s chart topper \u201cA whole lotta woman\u201d\u2026Monty Lister interviewed him at the time when he was on the Liverpool Empire and asked him if he would come over to Wirral to meet some of the patients in Clatterbridge Hospital\u2026.Marvin not only did that he took the whole show over and entertained them all\u2026and I did a gig in Finland back in 2001 and got chatting to this guy who was a local and asked me to listen to some rock and roll on his car radio\u2026.so on goes the CD and on comes Monty Lister interviewing Bill Haley in 1956\u2026the guy couldn\u2019t get over the fact that had I not been there in the Arctic Circle I would,at that precise moment,be on the radio with him\u2026.how\u2019s that for a co-incidence?....and back in the 60\u2019s I was on holiday in Palma in an apartment\u2026next door was Jack Charlton who I got quite pally with (great guy) and he asked me if I was related to Ray Wood (who worked in leisure services in Wirral council)\u2026because he was the brother of Roy Wood who played for Man City and who was a good friend of Jacks\u2026.I told him I wasn\u2019t but I knew Ray very well and his other brother Charlie was the bass player in my first band\u2026all creepy stuff\u2026