GRANDMA DAILY

Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Music While You Work

This programme was broadcast at 10 a.m. and consisted of music played at a brisk tempo.According to my father this was to encourage workers listening to it to work harder.I used to hear it coming from the Sears shoe factory opposite my grandmother's house in Stimpson Avenue,Northampton.The factory girls would sing along to popular tunes above the noise of the machinery.I always thought that I would love to get in there and join in the fun.
The building is still there but the shoe factory is long gone and it has been converted into some rather smart apartments.

Remembering Family Favourites with Cliff Michelmore who died this week

Listen With Mother

The lovely signature tune to listen with mother,introduced by Daphne Oxenford broadcast in the 1940s and 50s by the BBC for small children to listen to with their mothers.

Housewives Choice

If you heard this music playing you were late for school or the holidays had begun

Going on a musical journey through the radio days of the1940s and 50s

Theme tune to Paul Temple

FRIDGE DOOR ART GALLERY

Visitors always like my fridge door art collection

Adding to my collection by painting miniature versions of my own paintings on canvas rectangles.

They are then coated with high gloss resin for protection and a magnet attached to the back.

Gone Fishing,Washing Day

Dog Walker,Lowry lady

All for sale on www.ebay.co.uk

Blossom Time

A strange winter of extremes of weather from freezing to Mediterranean mild , not a flake of snow.How I envy my US cousins with a good snow storm or two to make it feel like winter.

Now I am painting the blossom that is appearing on the trees

Cherry Blossom

acrylic on canvas , for sale details see my ebay shop

www.stores.ebay.co.uk/janetcockerillfineart