We’ve been neck deep in boxes. On Tuesday our dining room furniture arrived in generally easily recyclable packaging but for its quantity. It has taken two [petrol] car journeys crammed to capacity with cardboard to dispose of it all. I swear we could have made a dining table from it all. Still, the resulting chairs [...]
I was in the car this morning queueing to get just inside the “snow bound” city boundary for an hour. I was listening to The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll and wondered when Billy Zantzinger may die. I wondered what Bob Dylan would say. For some reason I had a picture of him being told [...]
Well after the temperature rose to a sweltering -0.5C yesterday I headed off to The Boot for the first time in a while. I had prepared 1 song (Leezie Lindsay*) on the guitar and decided to wing it for the other two by doing When The Boat Comes In and Arthur McBride again.
Leezie Lindsay came [...]
I managed to duck out last night for a folky session in Cherry Hinton. I stopped going to this session a while ago due to the noisy drunks in the pub and the persistent smoking of other performers who always insisted on sitting next to me. Now with the smoking ban is in place and [...]
We’re just back from the last of our weddings. This time it was two Liverpool vicars getting married. Another great day. I’m amazed how everyone of these wedding have been different. This one was on a hill in an iron church. That sounds like the name of a book “The Iron Church”.
The place was packed [...]