they can open their song books. this choir lost a good friend to covid and he is much in their thoughts. we lost a very important part of our choir, one of our members, that died very early on in the start of the pandemic and we miss him very much. we couldn't sing at the funeral of pat and we couldn't even go to his funeral. so that was, that was quite sad. this is a choir built on friendship as well as phrasing. gordon was widowed three years ago and his fellow singers were a huge source of support. so how good is it to be back singing now? absolutely marvellous. amongst your pals? yeah, absolutely marvellous, ijust went to choir and i love being here on a tuesday. 100 miles south of clydebank in rural dumfries and galloway, another singing session is getting under way. here in castle douglas, the choir didn't meet up for around 18 months because of the pandemic