Thursday 8th March
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We’ve come for a cuppa with Blanka Olahova who was singing with the Ledebirds on Monday night. She lives in Ledeberg and moved here from Slovakia 20 years ago. Belgium is friendly and easy and she experiences no racism here she says. Also there’s a big Romany community and she’s been able to get work singing and raise her 3 daughters. One of them now lives in London and she’s just arrived on the train so we have a 3 way English Slovakian Flemish thing going on. Blanka also writes songs so we plan where the one she says she could write for The swamp could go. I realise later that today is International Women’s Day.