My inspirations come from stupid situations for the parodies - often suggested by the original lyric, as in my lament for chocolate - or from the research I do into my family history and traditional customs. Several songs have half started from the researches, usually not the story I want to come! I must have something like 20 songs partially written. One day, I'll find the ends of them.

Many songs have sort of welled up, from situations around me. Three came to being due to the death of someone I admired greatly, one of them being written at the beginning of the session and sung at the end of it. The second just sort of wrote itself over a week and the third, well that one took a year from the tune being written (I don't usually do tunes, this was the first!) to the lyric being completed.

One day I'll manage to write a chorus song!!

LTS