Hello Jerry, Ron, Ebbie...here's one of your more irregular regulars dropping by...

I'm so pleased to see that you have extra members in the Messengers now, Jerry. That's great news.

About learning harmonies: singing them on my own at home (as if they are the melody line) is the way I've always learned/practised them, too, like the person you mentioned, Ebbie. Our school choir used to sing a lot of unaccompanied Elizabethan madrigals, and 40 years on I can still sing the alto lines of things like "My bonny lass she smileth" and "Now is the month of maying." I haven't a CLUE what the melody lines are, though !

I hope the weather is being kind to you over this Easter weekend. It's lovely here in the UK. I'll be getting the garden table and chairs out of the shed tomorrow and starting to tackle my new garden. Only moved in at the end of last year, so it's going to be great discovering all the plants as they start emerging over the next few months. The whole of the back wall of the house is covered with