Sidmouth gone too, as of today. I fear that little town will look quite different in 2021 after a two year gap. A lot of businesses are going to go, in the seaside towns.

Gingers get called Blue. I get called Curly, due to my abundance of cascading locks.

Totally in agreement. If I introduce myself as one name, and my correspondent immediately uses the other, I wonder who the hell they think they are.

I don’t have a balcony, but I have a hedge. There are three households in our tiny hamlet, and I am going to sing for them next week.

My sound track to breakfast this morning was Einsturzende Neubauten. I was thinking that now is the time to try some of those difficult albums lurking in my considerable collection. Einst … being one of them; […]

A third of these are songs I perform at folk clubs and festivals, so they do more than float around in my head, per the OP. I live and breathe and love them, and they often make me cry. Inevitably, as I am a […]

It’s a scouse thing too, isn’t it? Do the Aussies do the thing where, if you have a two syllable name, it’s shortened, but if you are already at one syllable, it has to be lengthened? When I worked on […]

Cheers Tiggs. I am looking forward to the time when I can do this list. Not much opportunity for a train driver to work from home! (Though I have managed it occasionally)

With all this quality time at our disposal, now is the time for immersion, long attention spans, no distractions, no doing the washing up at the same time. It’s the time for those works and collections that d […]

Is it true that the multiple Afterword hampers on their way to @dai are the reason you can’t get a home delivery from Sainsburys for a fortnight?

Got to admit, I struggle with his voice. It’s so deep sometimes, it reminds me of a 45 played at 33. (We are all old enough to understand that, aren’t we?) That said, many women of my age and acquaintance go weak […]

Of course, we’re all in, aren’t we? That’s the whole point.
All the bloody time in.

Mmmm. A Desert Island Discs for our time. I’m in. If only I had broadband to do it justice.

Quite so. A WOMAD is the great omission from my festival experience. When I arrive at a festival and start my military planning with the programme, it’s great to have some favourites, but the freedom of a festival […]

Sad news. I wasn’t going this year, and I know some on the blog were, but it’s an indication of what will happen, or rather won’t happen this summer. Not just festivals, but travel, communal gathering. I had 6 […]

Barely noticed the lockdown, as still working and have been manic, as a rep, trying to persuade homeworking management that their key worker staff need rather better protection. I was looking forward to spending […]

Where’s Moose when you need him? Hurrrr.

Yes, I was thinking that their activities must stand out like a sore thumb at the moment.
“Excuse me sir, is this journey really essential in the course of your work?”
“Well officer, sort of.”
“Could you carry […]

I bet you don’t Google your S band.

Eeek. I was sleeping so well.