Alan Day and I popped up to the Ram Club in Thames Ditton yesterday evening to do a floor spot and enjoy the music of Chris Sherburn and Denny Bartley. Very fine it was - but what was also fine was the excellent venue (The Old Cranleighan Club), the comfortable and welcoming club room, the thorough organisation and hard work to make it look and feel inviting, the good beer in the clubhouse bar, decent lighting, an excellent PA (if you wanted it), good resident singers and MC - and an audience who not only packed the place to the gills and showed their appreciation of the music in no uncertain terms, but whose age range was the whole spectrum from late teens/early twenties to granddads like me and Al.

No sign of a declining club there, I'm happy to report!