Quiet Days

If you have read my blog page for a while you probably know that I am a big fan of The Unthanks . Recently I saw their 2009 album Here’s The...

Quote by Gary Snyder. It was Jack Kerouac ’s birthday today. Jack was born on March 12 th , 1922 which means that if he hadn’t drunk him...

It is another dark, windy and rainy day here. I won’t be going out today. I am listening to a CD called Folksongs & Ballads by Tia Blake...

I have made some wonderful friends on the internet in the last ten years or so such as Colleen who lives in San Diego. Colleen's genero...

  I went to see Emmylou Harris at Bristol Beacon last night. I'll write a review later this weekend. In the meantime here is a song I fi...

It is now Thursday afternoon, and I’m Remembering Now the events of the past two nights in the beautiful city of Bath with Van Morrison , h...

It was 47 years ago, the summer of 1974, the year Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest, West Germany beat Holland in the World Cup Final, an...

I have been a Cat Stevens fan since the 1960s, but it was in the early to mid-1970s that he became one of my favourite singer-songwriters w...

It is another cold, breezy, showery day, but I can sense that Spring is here. Looking out of the kitchen window I can see that the clematis ...

I don't think I will be going out today. It looks like rain is on the way. I have been listening to a Van Morrison album which was ...