Nicholas Brothers in Stormy Weather – you have to wait a little to the end to see the climax… can’t wait to start my tap lessons with Bernard Schofield next week [Poor Bernard - going to have so many step requests!!] I LOVE THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS -THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE TAP GENIUSES OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!  x kc

Fred Astaire once called this performance “the greatest dance number ever filmed.”

just played at the do lectures in Cardigan – what a wicked place… stayed in a nomad tent with reindeer skins and had remarkable food – i want to live in Wales! I played my gig in a beautiful tent and then went and got everybody singing to 1940s songs on my ukulele in the little pub next door !!! ps the ale was great!!!!

and thanks to nick luscombe for taking me xxxx

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I am so excited to share with you some photos of my recent meeting with Dame Vera Lynn in Piccadilly last week 25th August 2009. I wanted to meet her as her voice and songs have not only been a huge inspiration to my 96 year old Grandma Dorothy Carr’s generation who had to live through those difficult and unsettling WW2 years but also have become an inspiration for current generations. I wanted Dame Vera to be one of the first people to receive a copy of my  yet unreleased third album ‘Coquette’ and point her to my song ‘The White Cliffs’ which was directly inspired by her song ‘We’ll meet again.’

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There are only a handful of people left who can say they saw World War II start. Few survive to tell the tale of the German cruiser, Schleswig-Holstein, unleashing a barrage of 280mm and 170mm shells at a Polish fort and shattering the dawn breaking over the Westerplatte peninsula in the free city of Danzig on 1 September 1939.

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A commemorative service is to be held at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of British citizens in World War II. The first wave, known as Operation Pied Piper, involved 1.5m people and took place over four days from 1 September 1939, the day the war started.

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Seventy years after start of second wold war, memorial and book commemorates 500,000 Poles who fought under UK command.

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