Tuesday 9 December 2014

Sid and Sunrise Over The Delta


This was sunrise over the Ribble Delta this morning - picture taken from our balcony before we headed off to Chorley for a very interesting chat with Sid Calderbank.

Sid is a "Professional "Lancastrian". He makes his living by giving talks and singing songs in the old Lancashire dialect. Only a few days ago we saw Sid on TV, in "Country File" on BBC - an edition which specialised, as Sid obviously does, in Lancashire.

Sid is a sort of relative of our good friend Dale Heighway - the one person to walk a day with me in France during Vic's Big Walk. In fact this was the 44th day of the walk and the final one in France. We have kept in touch with Dale and Thérèse and we had a visit from them only last week, although they live in Normandy.

We had sought out Sid to pick his brains about how he goes about the business of getting gigs. And I have to say he was very helpful. He has given me some very good pointers and I am very grateful, as well as confident that I will now be able to get more fundraising "business".

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1 comment:

  1. Hello Vic,

    I stumbled across your blog via an expat group..and my mind immediately flew back to over 30 years ago - my father was posted to the UK, we lived in AFC Weeton, Lytham St Annes was where we stayed for a the first week of our move. In high school, I was in Ribble House ( Ribble Rablle Rules!). Most of my friends had been posted to Cyprus and/or Gibraltar....just reading the first sentence of this post - and all these thoughts just go tumbling about in my memories..

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts...

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