Go into your room and shut the door

Which is all well and good, but doesn't always apply. Such as when the BBC have filled your church with lights, cameras and outside there are numerous white trucks and one conspicuously understated satellite dish. That's where various radio waves were propelled up into the sky, and thence, to every receptive TV set within BBC1's sphere of influence.

So, with St. Mike's Aberytwyth being beamed across the land, we had our best evangelical smiles on and polished up our Anglican responces until they can be delivered from our mouths without the content of the words passing anywhere near our minds.

That sounds rather cynical (or rather, it is), but it wasn't a bad thing. It was a very interesting experience, and did a lot of good for very many people involved, and was one of the best times of worship singing that I have had in a church. Stuart Bell's sermon was good and had a couple of better ecclesiastical amusements in it, even if he did leave the gospel message to be buried firmly in the liturgy.

And the socks and sandals? Yes, I know it's a joke. But seriously, it's just so comfy! It's warmth with freedom; it's protection with adventure.

Socks and Sandals, your favourite Prog Folk band, are on the fast-track to mega-stardom. Well, that's the idea behind giving Euwan the producer of the program a copy of the new (yet to be released!) album.

Songs Of Praise theme tune commission, here we come...