Delighted you are pleased with my work Drew and thank you for commissioning me.
Stay safe, stay well and be kind everyone.
Bye.

Thanks Steve. Difficult times for us all.
I doubt I’ll check in again. It’s always a far from a pleasure for some reason.

And I didn’t wish to be sharp. Usually when people ask these kind of questions there is an unpleasant undercurrent. If that undercurrent was not present in your enquiry then I apologise for being sharp.

Oh and by the way Gary. How I conduct my life is actually absolutely none of your business mate.

Fear and pride. I know people who have claimed UC and found themselves in seriously reduced circumstances. It doesn’t work for everyone. Especially those with a variable and unpredictable income.

It’s 2:45am. I’m painting. I have absolutely no idea why. I should be sleeping but that is not something that I’m finding easy to do at the moment so I might as well be productive. I have my ear buds in and I’m […]

Sensible perhaps but their decision probably cost them their rightful place at the table of the gods in Valhalla.

I used to know a chap with two sheds. Mickey Two Sheds was his name. He built his first shed as a refuge from his wife but neglected to furnish it with a lock so it had little effect in keeping his wife at bay. […]

I haven’t got a shed but I am getting busy constructing a new base on a very cosy paradise planet in the Euclid galaxy.

I was fortunate to attend gigs by Yes and Genesis. Yes when they were touring Close To The Edge and Genesis twice. The first time with Gabriel on the Foxtrot tour and a few years later without his eminence […]

The answer is of course Hatfield And The North.

*whispers* I much prefer Raphael to Michelangelo. This is just between us right?

I’d happily recommend Ryan Teague’s album release of last year Recursive Iterations and his album from 2016 Site Specific along with the three albums from Greg Haines. Digressions, Where We Were and Slumber Tides. […]

I stream Spotify in Aptx to a Audioengine B1 which is connected to a Marantz amp via toslink. My speakers are Dali floorstanders or for late night listening a pair of wired Grado headphones. When I’m out and about […]

Months I would suggest. This is a very deep rabbit hole.

Happy to report that the latest is as enjoyable as the previous three. It’s not a reinvention of the wheel. It’s more of the same which is just fine by me.

In another installment of my wilfully intermittent series of “What Do Artists Listen To All Day” I thought some of this may be a reasonable fit on this thread. Not all of it is terribly chilly but I tend to listen […]

Good choice. I keep meaning to listen to some Pat Metheny. I haven’t played anything from him in some time, maybe that will supplant the Mahler after lunch rather than JC.

A quick list of a few of the musos I’ve been listening to this morning whilst painting in mostly reds and purples. This afternoon will be mostly monochromatic so I suspect a lot of Mahler will be accompanying that […]