My Daughter and I decided on a pirate themed half-term week. It began with Pirates of the Caribbean on Friday, via the Gloucester Tall Ships festival on Saturday and inadvertently incorporated the Justin Sullivan / She Makes War gig I went to the night before last night. I think I had heard about the gig via NMA's Facebook page. (I spent part of my teens and early twenties clad in little more than clogs, ankh and hair being lifted up on the shoulders of, for the most part,

For those of you that missed it: I have always found certain music very healing and Boxing Day is not a great day for me. But this Boxing Day was different as the Great Tracy Chapman chose one of my questions to answer. Tha above is a screenshot of the question from a link on my facebook page. You can see the original link with her answer for yourself on the url below. I have been a fan of Tracy's music since in my teens I first heard Fast Car. I still buy her CDs. As those o