Rosie goes international

After various schemes to do things differently we ended up back at our regular spot in New Road by the entrance of Oxford Castle for 11 days of the Christmas Fair. It seems our music can be heard for some distance up the street and was attracting potential visitors from as far as Bonn Square and Westgate. I checked this out and you can hear us that far away as long as there are no buses around. All in all an uneventful few days though charity takings were well down on last year.

One event of note. We’re used to tourists taking pictures and video clips but one afternoon I became aware of a young man holding a phone out. It has happened before and we’ve been heard by various friends and relations over the phone but this one seemed to be taking longer than usual. At the end of the roll we got the request, “Could you play that again? ” We did ending with “We wish you a merry Christmas”. At the end we got a generous donation (compared to most this year) and the explanation. He was playing it over the phone to a friend in a café in Bulgaria, who happened to be a local radio producer. First time round the friend had simply put it on speaker so everyone in the café could hear it. Second time round he’d recorded it so he could play it back on his programme later that day. I don't know how good the quality would be at the other end but I guess that makes us international radio performers. Would this be a first?



Happy new year to you all.

Christmas

Just to say that we'll be with Oxford Castle, weekdays only for the next two weeks. Not sure yet whether it will be our normal pitch by the entrance in New Road on on their stand in Bonn Square, but they're only about 100 yards apart and if you get to one and we are at the other you should be able to hear us - traffic noise permitting.

Beauty 4 Brokenness

We've added a new page called  Beauty for Brokenness

This is the main charity we support and although they are supposed to have a web page of their own I've never managed to get it open so until they get that sorted I'm going to post their newsletters here. At the moment it's text only as I can't find a way of getting their pictures to display but I'll keep working on it, it can't be that difficult.