Of course you did said the traffic officer when he pulled me over last Sunday morning. You see I hd become a little impatient with this silver Volvo driving in front of me in Malvern last Sunday and as I overtook the car in a fit of uncharacteristic impatience I swore for the umpteenth time at the number of Sunday drivers out this fine Sunday morning. Only this chap was not amused and no sooner had I over taken him than on came the blues and twos. “Do you know why I pulled you over?” he asked in a rather high pitched voice that Lorraine says almost shattered the windows on our car. Why do they have to ask that? I wondered. Of cours I know why but I have to appear contrite and penitent so I did. “I am really sorry, I didnt mean to…”

He is right, I thought but it’s best not to argue so I got off with a telling off and drove off at 5mph behind every car on front of me for the rest of the afternoon.
What a weekend! After extolling the virtues of my #2 son George on his 18th birthday and what a wonderful kid he is and all that, he only goes and gets involved in a fight in a night club and ends up in a police cell. This time being his 18th birthday, I don’t get a phone call and he learns at this very early stage in his life what it’s really like to spend a night in a police cell or ‘counterback’ as we call it in Ghana. How important it is to keep declaring God’s protection, grace and positivity over our children. Sometimes it is so much better to walk away but try telling that to a testosterone loaded freshly baked 18 year old who has just ceremoniously burned his fake ID and is ready or so he thinks to step into the world of real grown ups. What a wake up call?

Well ok so much for that… The funding drive for the October show is well underway and we have already hit 2% of our target. It is encouring but we need more so if you are reading this got to http://www.sponsume.com/project/sunshine-music and give us your money!!! as Bob Geldoff once said (notice I left the expletives out?) When you have finished giving us your money, phone, email, FB, twitter your friends and get them to do the same.
Right enough of my shameless begging. My late brother Gabriel had a wonderful saying, ‘A friend in need is a friend to be avoided!!’ If I don’t hear from you, I’ll know you are avoiding me.

On a very serious note though, we have some wonderful inducements, you are not giving your money away, just see it as you acquiring one of our paintings for a seriously knock down price. Check out the rewards on http://www.sponsume.com/project/sunshine-music and you will know what I mean.