After The Big Heat, but it is coming back

Its finely cooled down for a few days, though we expect it to have returned by next week again. That is not a comforting thought at all. I have just about been coping, but only by remembering that I must take it very easy. plus I have my little spray bottle so I can mist myself like a flower 🌸

Yep it’s still about 26C indoors but to us that feels a lot cooler. It’s weird I seem to be waking up with aches again. I could do without that. Our place retains an insane amount of heat. Houses should have window shutters like Europe does which is good for winter and summer. I have a song I am recording, but it sparked as it’s still just too hot to get on with it, I watched a new big budget Sci-Fi film last night called ‘Hail Mary’ and enjoyed it immensely. a good investment of £7.00 and one I will watch again from time to time. I like stuff with proper story’s, not monster movies so more “what if” and also “Hard Sci fi” thats speculative but based around actual science. Though I have also watched a few indy sci fi films that were good on Amazon Prime. Often made by film/media I guess students but these days they look as good as commercial stuff as you can use 4K cameras and special effects when required that are bang on point. I do like some old 50s UK stuff that often was based on storey’s by very good writer’s.

Thinking about Russia and its proxy war on Europe as well as Ukraine:

Russia would attack Europe by sabotage. Cutting pipelines and internet cables. hacking major websites and banking, in fact it already does this and has for many years. Also by sponsoring and financing right wing agitation. It aims to weaken the west not to invade it. It still has a huge army but a very chaotic conscript/mercenary one. Its professional soldiers are smaller in number. Its Bombers very are old, and servicing them is difficult as is keeping most aviation going due to lack of parts which it must get from China or India now. It stil has fearsome nukes, which may or may not work but as we know if one is ever fired its pretty much game over. If a low yield tactical weapon is used in Ukraine then NATO will make a massive conventional strike. If a high yield one is used that’s armageddon. Putin is not suicidal and may not have as many friends as he used to. Who knows?

The Way I Look at You

Anyhow here we are again. Kids in the neighbourhood being a nuisance with the neighbours today. Looked a bit nasty. Not sure what it was all about though. I found that sort of stuff very disturbing as it reminds me of problems I had growing up so I get a bit triggered if I am not careful. The school holidays may be a bit of a problem as random bored kids roam around.

Even though it’s got cooler I have had a headache and I still feel wrecked. Never mind.

A small thing annoyed me and upset me today. Something caused by others stupidity but unsettling. I get thrown out of kilter quite easily. Stuff I can’t control.

Living in the world but maybe not just the world?

Matthew 22:20-2221st Century King James Version

 And He said unto them, “Whose is this image and superscription?” on the coin.

And they said unto Him, “Caesar’s.” Then said He unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”

 When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.

Everything is a riddle….













The heat is on, again.

We are having another heat wave so everything is going to have to stop for a day or so. I have decided to write a new self help book, the working title will be ‘No, just FO’. I think it’s quite catchy. I thought FOAD was a little too extreme 😂

This last weekend has been fun. Two very different gigs. One with the Invisible Folk Club Band at Thame Pride and One with the Sonic Boomers. Yesterday’s at the Hen and Chickens included a mighty compliment from a guy and an offer to form a band. Doubtful anything will come of it. Also Phil from the Invisibles and his Mrs came to watch our gig which was nice and he took a little video clip. The heat was just about bearable on both gigs.

I just fitted a solar powered security light over our street door as kids hang about there in the shadows doing stuff they shouldn’t: they can hang out somewhere else hopefully as there are plenty other more pleasant places to go here and abouts. Hopefully they will get the hint, but being kids I expect not. I don’t think much is going to be achieved this week as I am fairly dysfunctional in this heat. I have a new song idea to work on but I am too knackered to do it at present frankly. And I think a bitey thing just bit me too. Ouch.

Here’s a thought. If an act is done out of love is it still a sin if there is a book that says it is within? I am wondering. All you theologians, what say you… The hot weather makes my mind wander to all sorts of places. Oh my. Calm down, calm down. Our place is getting silly hot now so I can’t see much being done for the next 3 to 4 days or so really. So I shall just do stuff in the morning or very late evening. Creative stuff that is, not the sinning as there is not so much opportunity for that currently in my life, darlings’ 😂 It’s a weird enforced slowdown really which I just have to accept annoying as that is. The heat does make me very irritable though. Still a few days to go. A bit scary though. And I survived another night. It is so tiring though. A friend is just hunkered down with a book or too and watching television as a survival strategy which makes sense.


Diana Stone Totally Wrecked By Desire

A little light verse for your amusement.


Friends with benefits

We are friends with benefits, you and I
In passing we can give each other a knowing smile,
Nobody else in the room has the faintest idea
But we are friends with benefits. you and I

Sometimes you laugh a little too loud, and brush past a little closer
Oh my, my. I giggle and make a silly joke. No one knows about
you, you funny old bloke.

You are not so fit as you used to be, the horizontal mambos
a little more effort you see, but take a little slower and
we will arrive on schedule and feel mighty fine

These days a bit wrinkly I have but I still feel the passion
Warm and hot no one knows our little secret.
Oh what we have got.I wont tell Jim, he mostly lives in his shed.
You won’t tell Ida she would get quite cross
From the impression I get she is the boss.

A quick drink before I go home,
O lord I forgot to put my knickers back on.
Jim wouldn’t notice he is too far gone.
Tuesday week then and I will say its rock choir practice
You will tell Ida its a five a side kick about
With a bit of luck you will get over the line and the net.
You aren’t out of practice yet.

We are friends with benefits, you and I
In passing we can give each other a knowing smile,
Nobody else in the room has the faintest idea
But we are friends with benefits. you and I

DS 2026

Almost midsummer again.



I have decided that subtle is not working generally for me so I am going for the full on in your face approach a for a brief spell 😂 I fell miss the element of living in the moment and being a bit more spontaneous. I have got staid and hide bound like an old weathered encyclopaedia perchance…

Here is a re-released old song of mine from about 20 years back or so. Originally recorded in analogue! I used to use a Teac 144 plus a reel to reel recorder then mix to a cassette and then to CD.

Lonely Fish

We had a good gig today at place called Ziba in Hitchin but not very busy as its just a small cafe. People were also seated outside and listening as its on the market Sq there. Nice to be out playing again which I do really enjoy. I am a bit knackered now having come home. So I am not as match fit as I would like to be, but I just don’t play enough really at present so it’s not that surprising. I do need to try and build my stamina up again.

My desperate attempt to tidy up the music room continues apace with small victory’s. I found a few hidden treasures 2 books of Irish, Scottish and English folk songs and much more.

The weather is turning warm again now as we come up to the weekend again. 3 gigs which I haven’t had for years. I hope I survive it 😂
If you don’t hear from me again know I went down fighting with the ship.


Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;
lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;
lead me from hate to love, from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.

Each day at noon people of all faiths and none use this ‘Universal Prayer for Peace’. This forms a wave of prayer and hope rippling each day around the globe.

There is a world peace prayer society encouraging its use, alongside the simple prayer, ‘May peace prevail on earth.’

We need it now….