Full Delight

A charity Christmas single raising money for The Dalgarno Trust.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/walking-in-the-air-christmas-single-fundraiser-dalgarno-trust

100% of donations will go directly to The Dalgarno Trust’s foodbank and community meals programmes which will enable them to provide food and offer after school clubs to children in the local community. 

No matter how much you can afford to give as a one-off donation, your donation matters. Every donation received adds up and helps the charity get to work and make a positive difference.

Dalgarno Trust works with the local communities in W10, offering a wide range of activities, projects and services that promote health, wellbeing and inclusion for both the young and the not so young. We bring adults and children of all ages from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds together, to help fulfil their potential and break the cycle of poverty, ill-health and deprivation.

A recent report by The Childhood Trust revealed the stark impact of hunger and food poverty that children are experiencing, caused by the cost-of-living crisis and rising food costs. A survey of school aged children aged between 7 and 16 found that 40% of those interviewed were experiencing food poverty. The charity is warning that government measures intended to help address the cost-of-living crisis do not go far enough and that this winter, thousands of children are at risk of malnutrition or worse.

Performed by Passport To Stockholm
Written by Howard Blake
Recorded & produced by Nick Bennett at The Fish Factory, NW10
Artwork by Carolina Haraki
Logo by Louise Amy

Walking In The Air (Theme from 'The Snowman') - Passport To Stockholm

"Blue Dolphin" releases 4/11/23: https://fanlink.to/blue-dolphin

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There's a mirror on the lake
Through the window,
reflections of a whirlwind passing by
Your living pictures
Oh how the rain did fall,
but you can't avoid the weather

I want it naturally,
Giving up to everything
In the water
Sinks in the water
I want it naturally,
Giving up to everything
In the water
Sinks in the water

I saw you leapt away
Another day waking up on a wave of calm
I listen, how you miss the light of the morning now,
but you can't avoid the weather

I want it naturally,
Giving up to everything
In the water
Sinks in the water
I want it naturally,
Giving up to everything
In the water
Sinks in the water

All we have is time and signs of life
Returning to the mirror,
I see the sadness leave your eyes,
And evaporate into silence

Silent island
Silent island
Silent island
Silent island
Silent

🐬🐬🐬

BLUE DOLPHIN

Monolith

STORY
The story illustrates phronesis—the classical Greek idea of practical wisdom, the kind of judgment that blends knowledge, experience, and moral insight.

The Bridge at Kalliros
The river Kalliros had flooded every spring for as long as the villagers remembered. This year the water had risen higher than anyone had seen. The young men argued for an immediate crossing to rescue sheep stranded on the far bank. “If we wait, they’ll drown,” one shouted. Another proposed building a raft from fresh-cut pine, ignoring the roar of the current.

Old Thaleia, the village midwife, said nothing at first. She had no formal training in engineering, nor the strength of youth. But she had watched the river for sixty harvests. She remembered the year the water turned suddenly when the snows melted late, the year when the bridge timbers twisted in a hidden eddy. She knew the sheep’s value and the risk to the men.

Finally she spoke.
“Cut no pine. Use the willow trunks upstream—last night’s rain has loosened them. Tie them with the reeds that grow near the oxbow bend. And wait two hours, until the meltwater from the eastern ridge has passed. You will see the mud eddies change colour; then you may cross, and not before.”

The young men grumbled, but the memory of her unerring births and quiet rescues gave them pause. They followed her plan. When the eddies paled, they lashed the willows and ferried the sheep across without loss.

Later a traveller asked why the villagers obeyed the old woman so readily.
“She knows more than rules,” the headman replied. “She knows when rules bend. That is wisdom for living—phronesis.”

This story highlights how phronesis is not just cleverness or technical skill (techne), but the seasoned judgment that grows from lived experience, moral concern, and a sense of the right moment to act.

INTERPRETATION 
The lyrics of “Willow Crossing” portray phronesis—practical wisdom—as a quiet but powerful guide amid danger and urgency.  The rising river symbolizes crises that tempt people into rash action, while the elder’s calm instructions embody the insight that comes from years of lived experience.  Her ability to “read the hour in the river’s lines” shows wisdom not as abstract knowledge but as attunement to the right moment, balancing courage with caution.  By urging the villagers to “wait for the eddies to pale,” the song celebrates patience and moral discernment: wisdom is not about rules or titles, but about sensing when to move and when to hold back, so that action is both timely and humane.

WILLOW CROSSING

LYRICS

Burning into my collar
Hollowed onto your wrist
Heaven knows I don’t follow
But I believe in this

Blending into the darkness
it gets harder to see
try to stand and unravel
what a mans gotta be

CHORUS
Darlin' you're the only fit, you should know
Each time I break the final straw
It's loving you, blinds the senses
reveals my inexperience
oh, I can't even help myself,
so how do I handle someone else?
It's loving you, takes me higher
The only thing that keeps the fire
Is loving you
loving you
loving...

Breaking through my composure
no she don’t stop for the walls
Between the wreck and the ruin
We rebuild it all

And we endlessly falter
its a faith to be true
on such a delicate tightrope
but It’s a risk we choose

CHORUS
Darlin' you're the only fit, you should know
Each time I break the final straw
It's loving you, blinds the senses
reveals my inexperience
oh, I can't even help myself,
so how do I handle someone else?
It's loving you, takes me higher
The only thing that keeps the fire
Is loving you
loving you
loving...

loving you
loving you
loving

loving you
loving you
loving
...Loving Loving Loving

loving you
loving you
loving
loving

CHORUS
Darlin' you're the only fit, you should know
Each time I break the final straw
It's loving you, blinds the senses
reveals my inexperience
oh, I can't even help myself,
so how do I handle someone else?
It's loving you, takes me higher
The only thing that keeps the fire
Is loving
loving
loving you

Ocean

Simon Alexander