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LOVE FAREWELL

Remember the Doing Dylan songwriting contest earlier this year?  The judge was the reknown singer/songwriter John Tams who might remember as Rifleman Daniel Hagman from the Sharpe TV series.   He is now supporting Help For Heroes which raises funds for our war wounded, by performing lead vocals on Love Farewell, a new track just released by the band of the Royal Green Jackets, (The Rifles).    It's a hauntingly beautiful song and made even more poignant by the video of still images which accompanies it. You can download the track together with Over the Hills and Far away/Sharpe’s Theme, also sung by John for just £1 from the Help For Heroes website.  Forget politics, forget moral prejudices. This is a fantastic opportunity to show a fellow human being you care.  The organisation hopes that Love Farewell will hit the Christmas number one spot ahead of that X factor nonsense.  Come on Writelinkers, let’s help them to make it happen!  Go to the website download the track and pass this link on to all your friends. <a href="Before you dash off, please read on as we need your help. Our judge was the reknown singer/songwriter John Tams who many of you will remember as Rifleman Daniel Hagman from the Sharpe TV series. John kindly donated his judge’s fee to a women’s rescue centre, which for obvious reasons has to remain anonymous. He is also playing a large part in raising funds for our war wounded, many of whom have suffered horrific injuries and are faced with long recovery times and the prospect of having to rebuild devastated lives. To help and support these men that have given so much, the band of the Royal Green Jackets, (The Rifles), has recorded the hauntingly beautiful Love Farewell with John Tams on vocals. You can download the track together with Over the Hills and Far away/Sharpe’s Theme, also sung by John for just £1 from the Help For Heroes website. Forget politics, forget moral prejudices. This is a fantastic opportunity to show a fellow human being you care. The organisation hopes that Love Farewell will hit the Christmas number one spot ahead of that X factor nonsense. Come on Writelinkers, let’s help them to make it happen! Go to the website download the track and pass this link on to all your friends. http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/love-farewell.html" title="Love Farewell">http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/love-farewell.html</a>

WHAT ABOUT THAT FAT KID WITH WINGS AND A BOW?

Well for a start, he isn’t a child, but the Roman god Cupid, who governs erotic desire and sensual passion.  His youthful persona implies mischief which he happily unleashes with his golden (and leaden) arrows.  Cupid’s cherubic image is one of the most iconic symbols of Valentine’s Day and is currently plastered all over the high street.     Along with sickly pink balloons, eye-wateringly bright tinsel and a whole range of other cheap tat bearing extortionate price tags, all this stuff is pushed in the sure knowledge that the majority of the populace adhere to the principle that material manifestation of love is beyond price.   I’m happy to say that Nearest & Dearest isn’t one of them.  If he presented me with a glittery, heart shaped balloon sporting a naked Cupid I would either faint or puke or probably both!   N & D is not one of the great romantics, in fact, after I’d been enticed into matrimony, he announced on the eve of Valentine’s day that he hadn’t bought a card as there didn’t seem much point now we’d tied the knot!    Contrast this with my first boyfriend who had something of a fruit fetish.  Understandably I suppose as he lived on a farm with an orchard full of apple and pear trees.  We were both five years old and met in Mrs Buckstar’s infant class.  His name was Frankie and he wore an iron on his leg due to polio from which he was still recovering.    He was a very gentle little boy who brought me an apple or pear every morning which we would eat during playtime, sitting on the wall beside the lavatories like a pair of diminutive bookends.  My older cousins teased me unmercifully about him as he was undersized and couldn’t run about like the other children.  I’m ashamed to say I dumped Frankie at the earliest opportunity and still suffer a twinge of conscious when I think about it!   Not so Laurence!  I was about fifteen or sixteen when he appeared on the scene.  I really couldn’t stand the sight of him!  Strangely I remember his friend better, Steve who was severely myopic and had a weight problem which was accentuated by his short stature.  Laurence on the other hand was exceptionally tall and seemed to sway in the slightest breeze.   He was also very shy and used Steve as a go between.  As we all had to catch the same bus to school I could hardly avoid either of them.  If Steve wasn’t around I’d find notes from Laurence stuck in my school bag!   I can’t really remember how I got rid of these two, probably started work and caught a different bus, but their attentions were nothing as to the unwanted gropings of Anthony.    He was in my class and can only be described as a geek.  He was an expert in building radios which was his major passion.  His minor passion was me who he was forever trying to kiss in the corner of the library!  As we were both library prefects and at our school the library was an under used resource, he had frequent opportunity! I wouldn’t have minded so much, but he had really bad breath and far too much testosterone even for a boy that age.  I subsequently found out he’d also tried it on with two of my friends, also library prefects!   I’ll gloss over Clive and Ken, both of which only added to my belief that I’d got some kind of secret tattoo on my fore-head which said, “Geeks and Weirdoes welcome here!”   I’ve no doubt I performed a similar role to the young men that brought my colour up.  Fortunately for me, they never spared me a second glance as most of them were very bad boys which my Pa would have escorted from the house at the end of a twelve-bore!   I was eighteen when I met N & D who was neither, a geek, weirdo or a bad boy!   Neither was he a fat kid with wings, but he was pretty good with a bow!

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