“Oh what a beautiful mornin’… Oh what a beautiful day…” as the Oklahomans would have it.

Yes, the sun is shining and today, for the very first time, the Compleet Wayside Serenaders (as an old-fashioned fellow might call them) intend to add a hiccough to your otherwise seamless sashay down Market Street in Lichfield.

We’ve never been eight-strong (or should that be eight-weak?) in public before, so it’ll be a bit of a thrill for us, even as it underwhelms your Saturday morning queue at the butchers’.

We’ll be there outside the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum (providing there are no other buskers around our preferred spot, in which case we’ll be somewhere else in town or at Speakers’ Corner) from 10.30 to about noon, so the early birds and the afternoon strollers will be the lucky ones.