I wonder if you’d like ‘Milkman’ by Anna Burns? It’s set in late 70s/early 80s Northern Ireland. It doesn’t say which city it’s set in but probably is in Belfast. It’s a novel of the Troubles seen through the eyes […]

I use elixir 80/20 bronze custom light 11 – 52. The 12 – 53 sets are great too.

They’re 3 times more expensive than ordinary strings, but last at least 3 times as long. Buying a set of 3 is much cheaper. I do […]

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A pal of mine was in an all inclusive resort in Spain once. There were a bunch of lads from Cumbernauld there too on a stag party. My pal was amazed when one of the lads asked for Buckie(Buckfast), and the waiter […]

You are correct.
Nothing much has changed.
He needs to get a deal with the EU, then he has to get parliament to agree to it too, just like Theresa May tried to do.

I’ve never heard of Thuderbird in UK. I thought it was an American drink.

Townes Van Zandt tells all about the US version in this song.

Vimto. It’s an anagram of vomit. Enough of a reason not to touch it.

*whispers* they’re in alphabetical order.

This is a reply to tiggs post. I can read music but I can’t post properly on a forum.

Johnson is just bluffing, so that he can call the opposition parties cowards, and accuse them of stopping democracy.

If there was an election now, it’s too close to call, and would probably be another hung […]

I don’t know how you listen to this stuff…..spotify, maybe? Even so, I don’t use Spotify anymore so I don’t even know if he’s on it……David Francey that is.

A great introduction cd would be ‘The First […]

David Francey lived in Kilmaurs, Scotland, until he was about 12, when his family emigrated to Canada. He worked construction most of his life, then gave it up to become a folk singer. He’s probably my favourite […]

No, he just played a right handed guitar, left handed. The strings were in the correct order. I think Clapton found a white lefty Stratocaster, and gave it to Hendrix as a present.

From memory, Bob Geldof […]

Probably a bit too highbrow for me. I like reading, and do so every night at bedtime…..always have.

Just as a rough guess, 20 books a year for the last 20 years or so means I have read 400 books this century. […]

My son did a music course at the college (thingy) on Skye two summers in a row. Both times we drove him there(5 1/2 hours from central Scotland..phew), and both times he wanted to come back by train, because the […]

And here we go full circle again!! Back to Michael Marra again!! Amazing!!

If you come from Pennsylvania, your name will be Margaret Shaw, and pronounced like that. If you have that name, and come from Dundee, […]

Nazareth PA is where Martin guitars are made.

Wonderful! Brought a tear to my eye.

Drummers don’t need to know what key a song is in Ringo! F demented right enough.

I told you about the singing kettle in the earlier post. I saw them twice…yuk….but my boys loved them!

I don’t really know much about Matt Armour either to be honest. A couple of my older folkie pals knew him back in the day. I cover one of his songs called ‘Shores of the Forth’, sung in my best east neuk of Fife […]

‘I’m The Man’ and ‘Look Sharp’ of course. I might even come along!