You're welcome @Marionville, you're a great host of our group and we are grateful for that too! From what I read I can see you had a wonderful time over there and that's very important, our lives are coloured with good memories like those.

@Merseyman1 I appreciate your kind words.

I seem to have acquired a rather unsavoury reputation...!

@Marionville Unsaavoury? I thought that it was sweet. How was the Brittany trip?

@FrayedBear it was absolutely marvellous, our hosts extremely charming and attentive, the singing superb from both choirs, and the weather, food and drink all top class. My friend Lorna and myself were hosted in the home of a gentleman called Christian who had the deepest bass voice I’ve heard in a long time, He only moved to Brittany three years ago, from Paris, where he sang in a choir called La Chorale Rousse, which specialised in Russian music and Gregorian chants.....he sings and plays several musical instruments. An extremely accomplished and very cultured man....but alas he had very little English! He was extremely large, and had won two gold medals at the 1980 Paralympic Games which were held in Arnhem in Holland...for throwing the Javelin and the Shot Putt. He actually reminded me of Peter, his physical appearance, height, deep voice and physical strength were strangely similar, but the musical talent was not. Peter couldn’t sing a note nor play an instrument!

@Marionville Fantastic.
Early days yet but you need to move on from making comparisons and simply seize the day for what it brings - living in the moment not the past.
Russian singing does enjoy its bass (lol, nearly had a gross misspell there!) periods.
Pleased to have your decent liveliness back.

@FrayedBear Thanks for the advice...I couldn’t help but see the similarities....! Thank you for the nice compliment, it’s always nice to feel your contributions are appreciated.