Tim's songs for Wendy

 My, but it's been a long time since I last posted here. Five years, or even a little more.

What prompted this post is that this coming weekend is the 18th Wendy Memorial Mountain Walk, and that has naturally got me thinking about all sorts of things. 

We're going to the White Horse Vale at Uffington. Like all our "mountain" walks, it has at least a tenuous connection to Wendy's life. Also, like most of our more recent walks, it's not really a mountain. A hill at best. But as we (some of us, at least) gradually slide down the slopes of older age, that's become more desirable, even necessary.

But that's not the point of this post. What it is, is a long list of tangentially linked thoughts that brought me finally to the subject of music about Wendy. And that brought me to realise that, as far as I know, I've never shared here the two songs Tim wrote for Wendy shortly before she died. They are online, in one of my poetry collections, but if you're reading this blog the chances are you've never found them.

So here they are: songs written at my request for Wendy, when she was still well enough to listen and (I hoped) enjoy them. I honestly don't know whether she did, as we didn't talk about them at the time. Too much else going on then. But here they are - I hope you enjoy them.

Engineer 

and Wendy Of The Vale 

(both written, performed and recorded by Tim).