Having gone through forty years of raising a family by doing every kind of drudgery job that you could imagine, I can relate to what you are saying about nostalgia Will.

But are you sure that those teachers etc who sing about life in the past are indulging in the false, rose tinted specs nostalgia that you see in their performances?

I sing songs that come from a past in which I may not have been directly involved, but I sing them because they are bloody good songs and not for any other reason, and I put considerable effort into singing them as well as my meagre talents allow.

I didn't fight in WW1 (23 to 27 years before I was born), but I still enjoy singing "Tommy's Lot".

Don T.