Or read all about the fantastic work they do at their website: Watch their 5 minute promotional video here: The organisation was called the London Sailing Project (or The Rona Trust), started in 1960 and still going strong today. I had less than two hours to find out where everything was, and how to sail her, before ten other people arrived expecting me to answer all their queries. I turned up to find a two-masted sailing yacht nearly 50' long.

He phoned me one Thursday night to ask if I were available the following day to sail for the weekend. I was introduced to sailing at quite a late age (31) by my father-in-law. I welcome this as I want to make the site as comprehensive as possible. There is a Contact Me form on the menu bar on the left for anyone who wishes to make suggestions for adding to the site. I intend to keep people up-to-date by using the 'News from JohnF' link on the left. I bizarrely find it very satisfying producing scores and sound-files using this amazing software. I was an early user of Sibelius, a music software for producing good-looking music scores, and am now on Sibelius version 7 running on a 27' iMac with twin screens. I first started preparing music on an Archimedes computer using Philip’s Music Score software. I explain all this to show that, in preparing the rehearsal files which comprise the major part of the website, I have a wide association with different kinds of music groups covering all ranges of ability and styles. I sing in the Kingfisher Chorale and the Leicester Church Music Consort, and I accompany Newtown Linford Choral Society and am on hand to play for, and sing with, groups of all sorts and sizes. I just seem to be full of music, yet neither of my parents could play an instrument or read music.

I managed to attain Grade 6 on the piano and Grade 5 on the organ.

I was soon crying my eyes out because I wanted a note that was between two of the keys, which were all white - the black keys were only painted on! Thus started my appreciation (or not) of music. My mother told me that, at the age of four, I was given one of those small toy grand pianos. My name is John Fletcher and I live in Leicester in the centre of England, UK.

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