Life without music would be deadly dull and frightfully boring. For me, music adds vitality and colour. Country and Western music is my favourite genre, closely followed by folk music. Blues music comes third along with my occasional recourse to Rock and Roll. My favourite group was and still is, The Seekers. I have a couple of their CDs and they are treasured.

The Father of Country and Western Music in Australia was Slim Dusty. He was a wonderful soloist and with his wife Joy McKeen part of a beautiful musical duo. McKeen wrote many of their songs and was a writer for other C And W singers.

I love music and singing, often breaking into song. Some of those are my creation, adapted from poems I have written.

Yes, I like music but the modern-day genres do not turn me on. Musically speaking, I prefer to stay lost in history, rather than chancing my luck in the modern musical era.