..Talking keeps people together.. My parents are both gone now, Rapaire, and my sister and my two brothers have kept the family intact. we all live in different places, but talk regularly by phone and meet up a couple of times a year.

I'm just back from Austria, where I've been listening ,talking, listening, talking, with my youngest daughter, her husband, friends & family for a month. Have been back in Oz for three days doing the same again here with my other daughter, her husband and my granddaughter.

but while I was away, I read this thread several times a week & enjoyed it so much. The only live music I heard was the local Carinthian all male choir. I saw them in the local church, where they sang hymns, gospel & some African songs (none of which i recognised), in three part harmony.

best wishes

freda