Looking East

Friday 28 February to Saturday 8 March 2025

Since my last post the season has changed meteorologically and, as if on cue, we have enjoyed a few warm days of early spring here. A blip perhaps, as the cold has now seemingly returned, but these few fine days have certainly been no less welcome. Our bedroom faces east, and how wonderful it has been, after such a cloudy first two months of the year, to look out in the morning sun to a clear blue sky. Rachel and I have certainly been tempted out and about in our own ‘backyard’, as well as taking advantage of the sunshine for a couple of London rambles.

Glenn Thomas is a talented up-and-coming Nashville-based singer-songwriter who I met after a show in the renowned Bluebird Café in the ‘Music City’ last September. Six months on, and Glenn played the opening set of the monthly night of live music at the wonderful aRTy Barn in our local village of Frithsden, before Kyla Brox and her blues band took the stage. And what a night we all had, as Nashville, then Manchester, came to our corner of rural Hertfordshire. It is fitting therefore that I take one of Glenn’s self-penned songs as my Blog title for today. ‘Looking East’ featured in Glenn’s set list when I saw him in Nashville, but the studio version was only released last week: the song will appear on his new album, due out later in the spring. Rachel and I had the great pleasure of hosting Glenn and his wife Jamie after the concert, as well as having the opportunity of showing them around our part of the country. A fine weekend indeed of walking and music!