For the Kipling/Bellamy number (Five and twenty ponies . . .), we went back to Kipling's words, which can be found in "Pook of Pook's Hill" - it's rather unimaginatively called "Smugglers' Song". Seems that Mr Kipling may have written exceedingly good songs but was sometimes a bit pants at naming them. It's definitely FIVE and twenty ponies, BTW - it was four and twenty blackbirds, but that's another song altogether.

The rhythm of our version is deliberately influenced by the trotting of wild ponies over the moors of the Gower peninsula.

Wasn't it a good weekend?

Andrew & Carole