As many of you know, one of the reasons my car (bought brand new six years ago) has passed 140,000 miles is my commitment to my DadTaxi role. Jessica [DsSis] gets – literally – more mileage from this than Darcey does, and at least twice a week, that means a short trip to Huddersfield for Jess to play at Hammonds Band practices.

Hammonds, currently ranked the 17th best brass band in the world, dontchakno’?, recently recorded a programme for Chapel FM’s From The Bandroom series. If anyone fancies a bit of a musical change, here’s their hour:

https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/archive/2018/09/from-the-bandroom-9/ 

Barely believably, near the end, in one of the link interviews between pieces, Jess actually speaks! More than one sentence too!! Doesn’t say anything you couldn’t have scripted, but hey-ho, small steps, eh?