On the first day of Advent…

…I stayed up way too late, given my 4.30am start (Tim is on a new fly in fly out roster, and needed a lift to the airport this morning…yawn!), listening to the Folk Alley Holiday Music Stream.

Every year, the wonderful and generous staff at FolkAlley.com put together over fifty hours of seasonal music and run it as a separate stream to the usual, and no less outstanding, stream of modern and traditional blues, roots, folk and independent music.  If I told you that I get giddy as a schoolgirl about the Holiday Music Stream, that wouldn’t be the half of it: it’s one of my very most favourite things in the entire world.  Beautiful carols, jaunty folksy-versions of favourite songs – it makes my heart sing, sing, sing! FolkAlley.com is entirely free, runs no advertisements throughout the stream, and is community-focused and supported.  If you happen to like what you hear, please consider sponsoring Folk Alley, to keep this astonishing resource flourishiing.

The Cat seems to like it too; she has been unusually present this evening, rather than running off and hiding.  I think she can tell how special this time of year is in our house, and is trying to fit into the Casa Esmerelda Yuletide Extravaganza.  One can only imagine what she’ll make of the tree…

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