honorary woman for a night...

...well actually for about ten minutes - but it was a real honour.
Loud Mouth Women are an informal, acapella choir for women. They came together some years back with the aim of encouraging women, especially those who were not confident singing, to use their voices. LMW never intended to perform - however over the last few years, entirely because of the quality of the singing, LMW have increasingly taken to performing. My partner Pen is in LMW.
Last night they held a Christmas party in the Old Brown Jug (a fantastic music pub in Newcastle, Staffs) and as usual they sang their hearts out, and for the last few songs they invited the members of the Mystery Singers (a similar, mixed gender choir of which I am a member) to join them - it was fantastic - around fifty women and half a dozen honorary women, i.e. men, singing in harmony, in a pub, having stuffed our faces with food and drink - I was pretty knackered at the end, but it was life-affirmingly GLORIOUS

the picture above shows LMW performing last summer