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#310 Jan I Love Snoopy

Then of course she moves on to high school and I said to her, for goodness sake get an instrument!

Jan

I have a bag and a hat with Snoopy on it. I was walking passed a school at home time and a little kid came bouncing out “I love Snoopy, I love Snoopy” and I said, yes so do I. So I got chatting to her. Then she met her mummy and I said would you like to come for a cup of coffee. They are both from Poland.

I don’t know why I started to say I’ll teach you the recorder. Oh I know, she wanted to sing to me, so I played the piano and she sang a song. I said would you like to learn the notes? “Yes, please”. Every week after that she came to my house and we learned the notes and the time values and she learnt how to blow her recorder.

Then of course she moves on to high school and I said to her, for goodness sake get an instrument! Now she’s learning the flute at school and she’s in the choir.

They are such lovely people. They keep ringing up and saying can we come and see you.


Precis

The beauty of being in a company of older performers is the kaleidoscopic range of real-life experiences that they bring to the table. These experiences cover everything from the vivid and strange world of childhood, to the unexpected late awakenings of old age. Take our newest batch of anecdotes, for example. These new stories are delightfully diverse: from the earthly, sensual joy of baking bread, to the cosmic dreams of outer space; from an unnerving encounter with a poltergeist, to the risqué glories of adult pleasure products and burlesque. Running as a rich theme throughout, is the possibility of love, and the simple wonder of human connection. As one writer tells us, in her story of funeral rites and flirting, “Amidst death, life goes on”, and indeed it does, delightfully so.