Today at work I got the most wonderful suprise, I was called down to the post room about 9.30 and there waiting for me was this beautiful red rose, a little box of pretty chocolates and a card too from this secret admirer. When I came down and Dean handed me the box I honestly Read more about Valentine and Jon Boden[…]
So yesterday at 9.30 in the morning (that’s on a Sunday morning, suffering for your art or what?!?) the bad met up at the SAE insitute Littlemore to record the tunes that we’d been playing. Our band in general is a bit of a nighmare from a sound perspective, we have the flute and violins Read more about Recording at last[…]
Went to see Black Swan last night, what can I say? Really brilliant film although definitely disturbing moments. I went to see it with my friend Maddie and another friend then asked me to see it with them, before watching it I thought I could probably go and see it twice but I think quite Read more about Black Swan[…]
This year I have to admit Burns night (or an excuse to pine for Scotland whilst drinking copious amounts of Whisky and listening to the staggeringly awful ‘Pride of Scotland’ (a double cd cause one disk just wasn’t enough…)) crept up on me slightly. It was only last weekend that I realised it was on Read more about Burns baby burn[…]
I guess I owe a bit of an apology to this blog. My posting over the last couple of months has been, if anything, sporadic. It probably didn’t help that my camera charger broke (hence no pictures) and that I came down with the fluyest of flus before Christmas but life is rarely perfect. I Read more about A bit of reflection…[…]
So here we are! A post about the fantastic band we managed to form on the making music supported ‘form a folk band’ course. The course took place over 6 weeks and people came from as far a field as Reading, Cambridge and Swindon. Although the main bulk of money was being provided by making Read more about Introducing Stranger things happen at Sea[…]
Here it is the hotly anticipated press shot of myself and Sreeves new musical project, a duo, called writing on the wall, we shall be playing English tunes (half of which were written by me, always interesting, bars sometimes have more of less beats than needed, key signatures become confused…). Chris chose the name (apprently Read more about Graffiti[…]
Dave my housemate bought a camera in the January sales and short of a professional model guess who he’s been testing it on???? Yes you guessed it the witchcat gets everywhere. The bottom shot was also taken on a cold day a week or so ago when Mabel was snuggling in the cover. All together Read more about Gratuitous shots of witchcat[…]
So this weekend was the big one for me, after not much training at all (no really I went down with the flueyest of flu’s when I was supposed to be practicing running, I wasnt even playing football, yes it was that bad). I did what any normal person would do on a Sunday morning, Read more about Santa run & carolling[…]
This year for halloween I got invited to my friends Alice & T’s halloween party with a difference. Instead of the usual slightly lame fake gore they had picked the theme of woodland animals, the invitations were issued by Alice who as well as being a sucessful publishing type (working for one of our competitors Read more about Halloween with T and Alice[…]