Starting off

Well, my first ever blog post. A sort of seminal event I suppose. Like going to the moon. When I was a child we had a record on which Louis Armstrong sang, the album cover of which had a picture of the Earth on it. When I was told at some point that "Armstrong was the first man on the moon" I was deeply impressed that Satchmo, in addition to being a great jazz performer, had had time to go to the moon -from where, my young mind supposed, he had also managed to snap the picture of the Earth for the album cover. That was the sort of person I wanted to be: performing constantly and flying to the moon; to be gloriously and illogically diverse. That was the start of the journey that has taken me to where I am today. Not to the moon, but to this blog. It was a big shock for me to learn that it was Neil, not Louis, who first got to the moon, but I realised then the power of imagination. I therefore dedicate this first post to both Mr Armstrongs –and the moon!