Healing prayer

City of Gold

He painted Salford’s smokey topsOn cardboard boxes from the shopsAnd parts of Ancoats where I used to play In 1978, Brian and Michael released ‘The Matchstalk Men’, a song about the remarkable artist L.S.Lowry. Lowry was, as the lyrics put it, ‘an ordinary chap’ who was eventually discovered by the Royal Academy. He achieved aContinue reading “City of Gold”

A Bloody Nose Story

[The Cover Picture is AI-generated, not our actual orchestra] July 2009 Sod’s law. Trust our church leaders to arrange the training for ‘Healing on the Streets’ on that particular Saturday. The day our symphony orchestra was playing a concert in the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey. Healing on the Streets sounded exciting, and I was itchingContinue reading “A Bloody Nose Story”