Wherever you are - things that inspire?

I know this is getting coverage everywhere from Chris Evans' Breakfast Show to the Daily Mail and elsewhere but I need to throw in my two penn'th.  Gareth Malone's Military Wives Choir was one of the most inspirational pieces of TV I've seen in a very long time.  I so nearly didn't watch it as I thought it would be a bit cheesy and my musical taste doesn't normally run to the choral.  But I did watch it and am so glad I did. From start to finish it was beautifully made, sensitively edited, insightful and uplifting.  

I know that as someone married to an ex-soldier and the mother of a serving one it could be argued I am biased and, yes, the military aspect of it was of course moving, but what got me was to see the unbelievable change that came over this group of ordinary women (the wives and girlfriends of Royal Marines and soldiers serving in Afghanistan) over the course of the programme. The growing confidence as much as their singing ability.  Most of all to see a young woman go from a nervous wreck stammering sorry at every moment to leading the choir in a solo at the Royal Albert Hall in front of Queenie and screened to millions on the Beeb was something special.  

Their song 'Wherever you are' is being released on December 5th and there's a campaign to get it to be the Christmas Number 1 to raise funds for the British Legion and the SAAFA - in my mind, there's no contest.

So like them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MilitaryWivesChoir

Follow them on Twitter @Milwiveschoir and use the hashtag #MWC4XNo1

And buy the CD!