I have had the great fortune to have lived for the last 21 years on a country estate, with a range of habitats. No coast or moorland, but water, woodland, gardens, grazed fields and crumbling farm buildings that […]

Loved that evocative description. It took me back to my first experience of Australia, way back in the 80s. It was Melbourne, so it was crimson rosellas and bell birds, but I remember the pademelons and […]

I got hit over the head by a bat last week as I was cycling to squash. I would have thought its spatial awareness would have stopped it flying into me.

Countered by something being the new superfood.

A heat wave from Scotland? They must be desperate.

No comment to make on Albert Lee, but your penultimate para may seem obvious, but is worth saying again and again. While you were at your gig, I was at Leveret at Stoller Hall, Manchester; on Monday it was Karine […]

I probably wouldn’t have come across Paddy Moloney as a young teen, but for this, from 7:12

All the love of Davy Spillane, Mike McGoldrick et al followed from this.

The trouble is, plenty of the left wing of the Labour Party would not like to see more MPs like her. She was seen as calling out Corbyn, showing disloyalty. As a result, I fear her goose is cooked as far as […]

A friend of mine living in France accidentally hosted Martina Navratilova at her house for a few days. Mucked in with the washing up and far more, apparently. Thoroughly good egg.

Agreement. Mark Radcliffe has settled in my home town and in a very non-flashy way is seen about the town, notably during the town’s music festival, where he strongarms his mates into appearances. Takes an […]

Live music gradually returns, as does performance. Two local folk gigs, both of which I got to be part of the support act. Great to be working with others again after all this time, but it comes with the perils […]

The Buggles liked Yes.

The National Library of Scotland site covers the whole of Great Britain. There is a French equivalent, but it’s not quite as user-friendly.

And just in case I get another lockdown on my hands, there’s a kiwi site.

C’mon in, the bathymetric contoured water’s lovely.

This. Once the National Library of Scotland placed a huge chunk of its archive of historic Ordnance Survey series at my disposal, I was bound to lose evening after weekend after evening. The ability to drill […]

Oh Yes. Patio Song. Just gorgeous.

Given how many on the blog, including me, profess to adore this band and album, I suspect there are some who will realise their oversight of my first choice.
XTC : Easter Theatre
Supergrass: Richard III
Del […]

Well its Time for a Reappraisal, innit?

Decking.
Decking.
Decking.
You always wish you hadn’t.

Only a collective of Afterworders could have got this far on a thread of gibberish, without even thinking to include anything off Trout Mask Replica. We know better, don’t we?