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Bill your a genius I belong to a Library which will have both of them I will  get  those books out. I will read the both.  A few years back I tried to write a kids book and I read both Charlottes Webb and Stuart Little after it was sugested to me by another great mind like yours. I  definitely can't be defined as a man of grammer but hopefully I have a bit of style.
My formal education ended at fifteen the rest has been the University of life and from books. I also did a English  correspondence course as an adult. The tutor was always pulling me up on  the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences. The syntax of English language I struggle with I find I can speak it better than I can write it down. I worked around and for Printing companies for Forty Five years which helped me alot.

I am privileged to have your mentoring
Thank you
Pete

Zurf you got a great style of playing and singing  and introduction I enjoyed the whole package. Here is a very short blast on the guitar from me to all you chordies..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lmEyIJyp7E

DE your grandson  made a hard job look easy. Great video.

Jim listening to you on soundcloud took me back to those times when I was young and going  through all those emotions you sing about. Another good song of your's.
I agree with you that it is great to have  Bill back on chordie, when Bill is not around chordie I miss him..

Slim Gaillard  was completly mad but I loved his fun piano playing style. He was an interesting character if nothing else. His  true past was a bit of a mystery that in itself would have made a good book.

ulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 – February 26, 1991), also known as "McVouty", was an American jazz singer and songwriter who played piano, guitar, vibraphone, and tenor saxophone.
Gaillard was noted for his comedic vocalese singing and word play in his own constructed language called "Vout-O-Reenee", for which he wrote a dictionary. He spoke five other languages (Spanish, German, Greek, Arabic, Armenian,) with varying degrees of fluency.
He rose to prominence in the late 1930s with hits such as "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" and "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti)" after forming Slim and Slam with Leroy Eliot "Slam" Stewart. During World War II, Gaillard served as a bomber pilot in the Pacific. In 1944, he resumed his music career and performed with notable jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dodo Marmarosa.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he acted in films—sometimes as himself—and also appeared in bit parts in television series such as Roots: The Next Generations.
In the 1980s, Gaillard resumed touring the circuit of European jazz festivals. He followed Dizzy Gillespie's advice to move to Europe and, in 1983, settled in London, where he died on 26 February 1991, after a long career in music, film and television, spanning nearly six decades.
Early life
Along with Gaillard's date of birth, his lineage and place of birth are disputed. Many sources state that he was born in Detroit, Michigan, though he said that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. of an Afro-Cuban mother called Maria (Mary Gaillard[) and a German-Jewish father called Theophilus (Theophilus Rothschild) who worked as a ship's steward. During an interview in 1989, Gaillard added: "They all think I was born in Detroit because that was the first place I got into when I got to America." However, the 1920 census lists one "Beuler Gillard"  as living in Pensacola, Florida, having been born in April, 1918 in Alabama. Researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc have concluded that he was born in June 1918 in Claiborne, Alabama, [where a "Theophilus Rothchild" had been raised the son of a successful merchant in the small town of Burnt Corn; other documents give his name as Wilson, Bulee, or Beuler Gillard or Gaillard.  According to obituaries in newspapers, Gaillard's putative childhood in Cuba was spent cutting sugar-cane and picking bananas, as well as occasionally going to sea with his father.
At the age of twelve, he accompanied his father on a world voyage and was accidentally left behind on the island of Crete.On a television documentary in 1989, he said, "When I was stranded in Crete, I was only twelve years old. I stayed there for four years. I travelled on the boats to Beirut and Syria and I learned to speak the language and the people's way of life." After learning a few words of Greek, he worked on the island "making shoes and hats" He then joined a ship working the eastern Mediterranean ports, mainly Beirut, where he picked up some knowledge of Arabic.When he was about 15, he re-crossed the Atlantic, hoping the ship would take him home to Cuba, but it was bound for the U.S. and he ended up in Detroit. He never saw either of his parents again.
Alone and unable to speak English, he tried to get a job at Ford Motor Company but was rejected because of his age.He worked at a general store owned by an Armenian family, with whom he lived for some time, then tried to become a boxer. During Prohibition in 1931 or 1932, he drove a hearse with a coffin that was packed with whiskey for the Purple Gang.He attended evening classes in music and taught himself to play guitar and piano.When Duke Ellington came to Detroit, he went backstage and met his hero. Determined to become a musical entertainer, he moved to New York City and entered the world of show business as a 'professional amateur'. As Gaillard recalled much later:
The MC would say, "Here they come, all the hopefuls!" Well, we may have been hopefuls but we weren't amateurs. Of course, you had to be a little bad in spots. If you were too good you'd lose the amateur image. I would be a tap dancer this week, next week I'd play guitar, two weeks later some boogie-woogie piano. They paid us $16 a show. I did one with Frank Sinatra I got $16 and he got $16. Every time I see him I say, "Got a raise yet, Frank?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isL8nSr … sL8nSrJX6E

Bill this is a good Christmas present having you back.
Neo up where you are in Western OZ will be real hot ?
Phill my playing is a struggle on piano and guitar. . Hoping in the New Year to get rid of the pain. The doctors tell me the pain will go but my movements will never be a hundred percent. I am enjoying life and my singing is bad as it  always has been.
C G how is your Banjo playing going? I love Bluegrass music.
Moderator I have just realised I posted this in the wrong section. Sorry about that.

ClippingPath welcome to chordie thank you for your kind wishes.
Bill excellent commentary thank you. It is good to have your gift of words back here in Chordie Land. I am trying to put together a collection of prose, poems and short stories for my family. To be a kid today is with all the differant pressure alot differant from our time.
Your friend
Pete

Cool photo's Neo

Thank you EB and Jandle for taking the time to have a read and give me some feedback. Hopefully now I am retired I will get the time to practice writing as I struggle with spelling and punctuation.  As  my Correspondent School, english teacher said, "In written English, punctuation is vital to disambiguate the meaning of sentences." Having left normal school  at fifteen I haven't got a clue how to DISAMBIGUATE anything. Even my forty five years in the printing Industry didnt help me to Disambiguate. Maybe Disambiguate is a country where people are known as  Dis Am Big You Eighties. Well that is the English language I guess confusing but good.

Jandle that was a good attempt at Silvia Mother it is a hard song to cover,

Tig Wrote   
Is that New Zealand language ?  Cool Stuff!
Thank you Jim for asking  that question.
Jim it is New Zealand Maori language known as** Te reo ** Maori.  Te is  maori for THE and the word  Reo is language.
Those words would be considerd  Poetical Reo or Maori Proverb or sayings.
Poetical reo is the highest form of reo and based on** tikanga** and a knowledge of history. Many modern speakers of the reo use poetical phrases, but they use them because they sound good, not because they understand the underlying principles of the phrase. 
   ** Tikanga**  is about  customs and traditional values, especially in the context of explaining something that has a good meaning.
Tikanga for you would be you instructing as a teacher values maybe using Latin as a language., Here is an example of using Tikanga  with Latin words,
Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem
“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.”

Beautiful flow subtle clever relaxed sound. Thank you TF