Dancing with dementia
Receiving a diagnosis of dementia comes with a multitude of emotions; devastation, fear, shock, panic and bemusement. But sometimes it can be a sense of relief and hope!! Yes, relief and hope. Please ...
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Charlotte’s People of the Year Award
I keep a close eye on the personalities who shape our cultural heritage and have sorted my favourite people of the year. The following may not be on the New Year’s Honours list, but I feel they ...
The origins of the Christmas carol
Carols were first sung in Europe thousands of years ago, but these were not Christmas carols. They were pagan songs, sung at the Winter Solstice celebrations as people danced round stone circles. Earl ...
Keep Rocking and Rolling
In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to ...