Readers will know that I am a keen singer and belong to a community choir, The Moo Choir. The Blue Mountains, where I live, is a fairly arty, well-educated, politically-progressive area and choirs have tended to propagate in this fertile environment. There are at least half a dozen active choirs that I know of and the number has been greater still in the past. On top of this there are many musicians, artists and allied artsy folk adding to the general milieu, one which makes this area a really pleasant place to live.

Later this year The Moo Choir will journey to Canberra for a mass choir event at the High Court on Lake Burley Griffin. We have been working hard this year on the repertoire of songs written or arranged by the talented Rachel Hore, a former Blue Mountains girl. Actually, I haven't heard the choir sounding so good as it does now so this might be a splendid event indeed.