Sole Bay Jazz Jazzers…

Here we go again yet another week with out the Sole Bay Jazz Band… but this is just to hope you Jazzers  are all keeping well and fingers crossed we will all be meeting up again and listening to the band in the near future.

Not so many looking in nowadays so just a little bit of banter …to hope all is well.

Thanks for all those who do keep in touch, some lovely messages and Birthday wishes from some very nice people thank you. so good to hear from Jenny and Terry that was a nice surprise…nice lot of e mails as well…Lots of lovely birthday cards…I had a wonderful day with my family and had hugs something I certainly have been missing.

Christine sent me some photos of Tim's and her garden some rather gorgeous flowers, so happy to see those. Again thank you all for staying in touch.

Coming up next week Terry has a birthday, and Jean as well, so hope they have a very happy one. And if anyone else who is having a Birthday, have fun.

Strange times nowadays, some days feel that all is well and I do get out and about then get worried when hear the news, but onwards  we go one day at a time…

I have an invite to see Alistair Griffin this Saturday at Bressingham 30 of us have been picked to go, a dear friend , and like me a follower from the start  of this talented young man, is driving me …Alistair  is doing a tour and video's are posted every time he does a little private gig all over the country, must admit it looked a windy evening up in  Runswick Bay last evening…so hope to get some tips this weekend seeing how it works, I also believe Kev from Dixie mix has been to an outside gig, and know Simon and the band have had an outside gig…so here is hoping!!!!!

A few random photos… to remind us of what we are missing…

Stay safe everyone …

Thursday again Jazzers…

Good morning all you Sole Bay Jazz Fans… another week without the band playing for us… But thanks to Tony N for his videos, and Simon Denny for his great older ones on face book, they brought back some memories…

But on the bright side, we in East Anglia are better off than some with this covid virus, so let us hope that continues so we can all enjoy live music again…

Thanks to those  who made some nice comments, it is good to hear from you on here and of course thanks to all who do contact me in other ways, it has been a strange time.

It has seemed a long time since been able to go far… but on Monday I drove Jazz Jan to see Rosemary in her lovely country garden, with those fields beyond, so good to get out and first time with passenger, thanks JJ for putting up with the mask…… and thank you Rosemary for your welcome and lovely to see you, and Maddi ha she loves to run around so fast… then Dave came along so good to actually see people and chat, felt like 'normal' again… thanks for blackberries as well nice blackberry and apple crumble made yummy…

Oh yes and have had a hair cut,  ( hope your hair cut turned out well Dave… gone are the long wavy locks and short bob again, phew !

My Jan  (as so many Janet's) sends her best wishes to you all, at least we have been able to see one another the past few weeks at a safe distance, so appreciate that, thank goodness for face time for those who are out of reach.

Thank goodness for Alistair as well  as he has been on 3 times a week playing for us fans, and is going on what he calls his  virtual tour in peoples gardens or large places so can be at a safe distance, by invitation only… safe distance a factor…so here is hoping! that will be a way to see if Sole Bay can play for us outside!

So……getting back to Sole Bay have found a few check shirts for this week… to bring back some memories…then more Three lads…

Sole Bay Jazz Band…

Another Thursday without our lovely Sole Bay Jazz evening, but I do hope all you Jazzers are staying safe and well, and practising …hopefully enjoying music wherever you can.

Nice to hear from a few of the jazz fans, also good to see that some bands are managing to play outside for a small gig, so here is hoping!!! watch this space.

I had a lovely phone call from Roy Symonds he is managing his illness and missing being able to play anymore, however he is doing well bless him and sends his best to all who know him, he is like all of us missing hugs, ……

I had a little browse through some old jazz posts, did not find any from Tally Ho …but Simon Denny did and put it on FB so that was great…Neil…Pete… Tim… Ray…Alan…among others.

If any of you who do look in here. if there are any news you want to add just contact me, and thank you to all who do look in.

I did however find some great shirts again have I got a theme going here? this week it is Blue shirts…think I prefer those to the check ones!!! Enjoy.

Good morning Jazzers…

Here we go again another week with not being able to have the Jazz nights, but if everyone in Britain would obey the rules we could be up and running soon… but so many people are of the opinion 'we know better'… and none of us like to be told what to do, but only thing we can do is hope that they find a vaccine and it works and we can get back to some sort of normal.

I am against all these foreign holidays at the moment, but some people are not fond of this beautiful country and they have been off to catch covid again and bring it home, sadly 'slowly does it' is not in their heads!! So baby steps are needed so we can ALL start to live again.

In the case of gigs… I, as you know follow Alistair Griffin and we have been enjoying weeks of music and fun with him on Face time, but starting on 20th August he is setting off to do gigs in peoples gardens… but that in itself will mean we all need a loo that the fans can use…  so not sure how that will work.  Of course being in a band is not quite the same,  but as we are all manic about cleaning everything down we touch, and lots of people cannot go inside houses… and then there is the distance…But we will see how it goes with Alistair's gigs, and we may get some ideas of what could be achieved outside playing of bands… of course the loos are very important especially as we folk get older!!!!!!!!

But keep hoping …and I am sure the band will be back somehow in the future. Keep Practising Gentlemen.

I do hope you are all managing to have some sort of life, so nice to see and hear from a few of you, and thanks Craig for getting in touch was getting worried about you.

A few photos from end of last year and beginning of this… goodness we are nearly half way through this year! nice shirts boys!!!A photo of my favourite 3 hope you are keeping as well as can be xxx

Jazzers …Old times

A little early but thought it may take you all a while to get to a video that I would love you to hear … 
Back in the day 2011 the first December we went to the Sports Centre.

I cannot post it again as I deleted a lot of videos after a time… but it is on one of my blog posts…

So if you go to the side bar on Cakes and Al … go to 2011 December and click on the arrow to open the post and click on 'LIVE.' it is a video which is very badly shaky in some of it… but bear with it and at the end a little bit of Roy Symonds.

It was a really great special night and every one in the band played and were so happy as were the big crowd. Those were the days… so here is hoping all will be well someday and we will all be able to get together and hear these musicians playing for us again.

I do hope you are all keeping well, so nice to hear from some of you really appreciate it, as miss everyone.

Just a few random photos from  about the same time.

A few flowers to cheer…

A few flowers from garden, have more weeds in the patios than I need …and bushes so high cannot reach… good job I am still able to do a bit because love gardening! Also good it is a wild garden hopefully the weeds are just flowers in the wrong place!!!

The butterflies are everywhere at the moment…

Another Thursday has come around Jazzers…

Good morning lovely Jazzers, hope you are staying safe and following all the rules! I have been wearing my masks when in the shops I have been in , so hope you are also …as not many people think it helps! I tell you something  it is a lot better than the gas masks we had to wear in the war…as a lot of us oldies know!

Nice that although not many comments on here…my stats inform me a nice lot of folk look in on  Thursday and Fridays, so nice to know am not chatting with myself…

Last evening we had an 'out in the open' session with Alistair on Face Book, he does play for us on FB  a few times a week , but it was extra good last night, because  he was out in the garden playing…a few friends were there long time since he has heard applause … now that is an idea if this virus keeps us in! 

Just wanted to say 'Alan could not get the link you sent me on mail no idea why.'?

I browsed through some photos to pop on here, and thought this one was something had put on last week but it was last year and I had put looked like a country night with the check shirts…

Missing seeing you all at jazz and another thank you for those who keep in touch…missing  the music, so lets hope it will soon be time to have jazz nights again…but even if it is only once a month to start with, fingers crossed we will meet up again.

Have a good safe week everyone…