The Swaffham Crier Online

Letters to the Editors

Dear Editors,

A Funeral dirge for frustrated Archers listeners, to the Tune of Elton John's Your Song

(- well, why not? He re-did, and massacred, Candle in the wind for Princess Di, didn't he? )

It's a little bit funny (It could be more if they tried)

If only Nigel

The knot had untied

His family had money

He was an upper class kid

And a very big house where

they used to live

And you can tell everybody

This is the Pargeter song

He always meant well but

Often did it wrong

We knew he wasn't much

but it was the best they could do

He went out with Shula

And had an ice-cream van too

He sat on the roof

And kicked off some moss

Then just as we expected

Nigel fell off

Some people think that was unkind

so I wrote this song

He was a well worn-out character

He'd gone on much too long

So we won't be forgetting

At the next anniversary too

please kill off Jill Archer

Who's too nice to be true

But anyway, the thing is, what we really mean

This storyline's much weaker than it

should have been

ML - the Bard of Swaffham Prior

Grade-one-a-thon

Dear Editors,

Along with 130 other musicians, professional and amateur, from Cambridgeshire, I am taking part in a Grade-one-a-thon to raise money for the Spinal Injuries Association. This Association has provided amazing support for a friend and local horn player following a fall which has left him in a wheelchair for the foreseeable future.

On Monday 3st January we all had one lesson on an instrument chosen from another family of instruments. We gather to take our Grade One exams just eight weeks later. That evening, we perform together on our new instruments in a concert.

I am going to learn the oboe!!

Please support me and give generously at http://www.iustgiving.com/Roz-Chalmers

Roz Chalmers