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Image: screenshot from youtube The Piano Guys are known for their video cover versions of other pieces of music.  From Soundtrack excerpts of Twilight and Star Wars to Scottish Fight Songs, they have enthralled viewers.  As wikipedia says: The Piano Guys   is an American musical group consisting of pianist   Jon Schmidt , cellist   Steven Sharp Nelson , videographer Paul Anderson, and music producer Al van der Beek. Originating in Utah, they gained popularity through   YouTube , where in 2011 they began posting   piano   and   cello   compositions combining classical, pop,   film score   and original music, showcased through elaborate or cinematic videos. As of March 2020 the group had surpassed 2 billion views on their YouTube channel and had 6.7 million subscribers. In this clip , we see them at a residential aged care centre performing a Charlie Brown Medley  https://youtu.be/tyPDQpel8bI  .  Now that we are ...

Some of us had been jokingly saying, as more and more events and activities had to be shut down to 'flatten the curve', "Oh, that's another COVID cancel!"  (By way of a red herring, some of us are not so sure about flattening another curve - the one around our midriff! Anyhow, let's pop that red herring back into the sea). Enter  Doug and Pat Blake. Parishioners Doug and Pat Blake are celebrating their 70th, that’s right 70th, wedding anniversary! Attached is a photograph of the small classified that appeared in the Canberra Times today 6 May 2020. Source: Canberra Times  6 May 2020. It is wonderful that their family have been able to pop this in the Canberra Times . It is also challenging, I’m sure, for their family to be able to celebrate this great milestone at a time when we are isolating ourselves as a way of protecting love ones from contracting the COVID-19 virus. As we continue these days and are aware of the isolation, particularly of our more elder m...