Beautiful Film

After my mention of 'Banjo Man', our eldest sent a link to a film about him.

Here's the link: Sal's Blog

Do check it out, it's lovely, happy, but also a bit sad & it made us cry!

I was wrong - he actually plays a mandola, not a mandolin...

Will do a better blog tomorrow... We've had an incredibly lazy day, stayed in bed until 2.30pm, have sore throats from talking for over 5 hours non-stop without food & drink & are ridiculously disorganised!

We just get worse...

Kay :)

Comments

  1. Pattypan20 March 2011 at 22:10

    Thank you for that. It was beautiful. A lovely portrayal of a local character. But sad too.

    Glad you have had a lazy day/weekend helps recharge the batteries.

    Take care

    Pattypan

    xx

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  2. Anonymous21 March 2011 at 01:52

    Your day sounds wonderful.

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  3. Rachel Cotterill21 March 2011 at 15:03

    I'm not sure I know the difference between a mandola and a mandolin!

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