It's not exactly a secret that I find the almost obsessive viewing of football games to be nothing short of ridiculous, and so you can imagine how excited I was to receive the following email just a minute ago… Dear
2006-06-06 : With the oil of Aphrodite, and the dust of the Grand Wazoo, he said “You might not believe this, little fella but it’ll cure your asthma too”
On the strength of a recommendation from Brian (and lots of latent worship from McJimbo) I bought a ticket to the Zappa Plays Zappa gig at the Albert Hall on Friday night. Bloody glad I did too – what a
2006-05-31 : Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun…
If it wasn't for the actual specific details of the arrangement, you could easily get depressed about forking out swathes of cash to sit on your arse and watch 60 year olds. In this case, however, the sexagenarians in question
2006-05-30 : Here’s a real nowhere clan, sitting in their nowhere van.
The game plan was that we were going to head out to Canterbury for a bit of a dance, then on down to Rye for the long weekend. The guys came and collected me from Camden, and The Navigator (names
2006-05-26 : Brief respite for liver recovery
The tour's going extremely well, with the exception of some fairly rubbish rain arrangements. It hammered down Wednesday and disrupted our tour with the Westminster Men, it was a lovely day yesterday when the Adelaide men went off to France,
2006-05-26 : Day 17. Things are not going as weIl as planned.
Greetings from the M25. We may be here for some time. Special greetings to our new Northamptonshire readership.
2006-05-23 : But the hero of our story was soon to help them out…
On tour in the Cotswolds at the minute with the Adelaide Morris Men. Having a bloody good time, what's more! On the weekend we went to Moulton and met & danced with the guys from Saddleworth, Thaxted, Huddersfield, Adderbury, &
2006-05-09 : I’m gonna finish wiriting this story even if it does my head in !
What a wondrous sight was our place of breakfast on Day 2 in Spain – the Museo de Jamon. Museum of Ham. Pure poetry. All that wonderful cured ham, hanging from the roof, waiting for discerning punters likeourselves to come
2006-04-30 : Knee deep in back-blog.
Paul and I went to Madrid for Easter. Weird how that happened – the original idea of going to Russia fell through, so as a last-ditch random effort, Paul's said “How about Madrid ?”. I couldn't think of a compelling
2006-04-26 : Danke schoen… darling, danke schoen…
Finally, a useful side effect of picking a tightarse Tuesday budget airline to fly with !! Since getting to the UK I've been talking about hopping over to Germany to go visit me ol' high school chum Wib, and I