February the month that follows the first breath of the New Year, a month that seems to skate along at some pace, with wild weather to boot. Rain and storms, winds and hail. I love this month because it beds us in for the March madness when time drags it heels, for us writers we […]
A sunny but cold afternoon in Lewes, my local town, and the boys in a huddle. I wanted to write a review of the first football match i have seen in hundreds of years, sadly i was lacking in local knowledge. So i turned to http://theballisround.co.uk for a full round up and here it is. […]
I had been chasing Prince on twitter trying to find out where he would play his next London show, I found out from 6 Music that he would be at the Empire in Shepherds Bush on Sunday night. I emailed my daughter who is in India, she has been on stage with his nibs, wow…..she […]
Its been the wettest month on record, everyone is talking about the rain, and then its back to the rain. Around Firle its been very damp indeed but when the sun does poke its nose in we walk up the downs and suck in the wonderful home we have. The barn is coming on, the […]
I guess im at the age where the people you grew up with start leaving this mortol coil for another. I never really paid much heed to The Everely Brothers until recently, i always knew that they never got on together and likned them to myself in Glenn, not in close harmonay but in discord. […]
The last show of the year for me was in St Peters Church here in Firle, i was asked to sing two carols. The first one was The Holly and the Ivy, lamented in a Leonard Cohen kind of a way, it went down to mixed applause. The second was one i had written that […]
The great tradition of Carol singing in the village took on a new turn this year. Outside number 18 a hearty choir of men and woman singing to our very door, it was torch lead and windy. After the hearty carol we joined the party. Next stop Ann Barnes house, sadly she had fallen from […]
Its been a good year, i married the woman who travels with me in my heart everywhere i go, its been a good year. It was a wild wet April wedding with horizontal rain, but we were in heaven and thank you everyone who came and made our day very special. 2013 has been all […]
It was a pleasure to spend New Years with a room full of sober people playing songs with a band that were gentle and understanding, it was a pleasure to perform. Winchester Guildhall is a fine building and in the main hall we set up shop, Tim Weller on drums, Simon Little on bass and […]
Glenn has released another solo album, and when it came in the post i was first attracted to the fabulous art work, produced by Rob O Conner, safe hands indeed. In the past i have grappled with Glenn’s solo albums and found it hard to engage in them completely, im not sure where this comes […]