Savoy £branston Pickle

Well I did manage to get to the Savoy Tup on Monday 11th January - but I was totally exhausted after being back at work after 6 weeks off - getting up at 4.30a.m. travelling into London then home, then back in again - then a thre pints of london pride. I went to get another beer and changed my mind and headed home at about 8:4pm. This is a great session so I will take a day off work for the next one. Anybody who enjoys Hamish's music will be pleased to know that he will be soon doing guest appearances at both Blackheath Folk and Folkmob!

This week I've been up in Rugby at The Post Office training facility bashing away on a computer fot a few days.

£109 standard second class Euston to Rugby return on virgin trains - a joke. That Pilchard £Brantson character is laughing all the way to the bank at the expense of the British public. The thing is the bank is probably an offshore account where the grinning knight of the realm doesn't pay tax or put anything back into this country that he has leeched off for years, while his slaves slog themselves to death on minimum wages. To add insult to injury after paying £109 and seeing a poster "WiFi horspot" I checked out the small print andfound out that it costs £5 for an hour access!!! Taking the piss or what! Mind you if you pay £10 you get 24 hours - but that is valid for the next 24 hours only. That's OK if you are going to look at the internet for 24 continuous hours in a row on one of those great marathon 24 hour train journeys that are so common in the UK!!!

Anyway Mr Pilchard I hear you shat yourself that time in the hot air balloon and cryed like a big sissy cos you were scared - tosser!

See y'all soon folks!

Ocarina

We were talking about ocarinas last night. I remember old Bill Gardner used to carry one about, which he said he'd owned for over 50 years. He also told me that, although his one was ceramic, the original ones were made from dried out Sweet Potato! I have since found out that this is incorrect. Sweet Potato IS another name for an ocarina, because of it's similarity in shape. Here is a tutoral that shows you how to make one - If you have access to a kiln!

Sitting at work

I'm there - actually sitting at a desk in Rathbone Place. It's 07:10 and I've been here for just over an hour. I may do some work soon ... maybe. When I got on the 132 bus this morning at 05:20, guess who was driving it - my old mate guitarist/harmonica player Terry Evans - he has promised to come to the British Oak session on Tuesday. There is a session tonight at The Savoy Tup in The Strand. I may go, it depends on whether I am knackered after this first day back at work this year.

Glenn Zero Garter

Dennis Greaves

Glenn Tilbrook

At the Star & Garter session last night we had two suprise guests - Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) and Dennis Greaves (nine below zero) I think that it's fantastic that professional Rock Stars take the time to support local sessions!

Back to work on Monday! I've been off for nearly six weeks so it will be a shock to the system getting back into the routine of getting up at 4.30 every morning and commuting into the West End!

Back Soon

Well I've been off sick now for nearly 5 weeks and I'm due back at work on Wednesday! Looking forward to being mobile again. New Year's resolution? ... don't know yet probably give up alcohol altogether! looking forward to camping trips to Knockholt this year.