I've loved big band swing music since I was wee; long before it's revival in the 90's that lasts to this day. It's so frustrating that by the time it was fashionable I was too sick to work and jump on the (literal) bandwagon.

Before then I did get to work with The Herb Miller Band - a big band led by Glenn Miller's younger brother Herb, who then must have been well into his 80's. It was a great time. I guess there were about 20 musicians - who were excellent, excellent players - and myself doing a little tour. We sang the oldies, many of Glenn Miller's and other standards.

But I keep getting disappointed by TV coverage of 'swing'. I'll see a documentary advertised saying something along the lines of "a programme about people who swing" or "tales of swingers" or "a documentary about swinging" and I get excited and set the machine to record. However when I sit down I find it's not about my beloved music at all but about...well...'swingers': people who sort of 'swap around partners'...er...sort of. Now I like a party as much as the next girl, but not that sort of party. I don't have the emotional, mental or physical disposition for such antics.

The documentaries are a mine of information though, for instance: I don't know if it's universal but in the UK a sign to other swingers that you're a swinger is to have pampas grass growing at the front of your house. When I bought my house what was growing in the front and remains to this day? Yep, pampas grass 'swinging' in the breeze! I've also got pampas grass growing in my rear garden which I guess could mean...no, I'm not going there.

So, I'll advertise the fact. Yes, I'm a swinger; any hot music around count me in - I'm just not that type of swinger!!