Category Archives: Musings

Cracks Around The Edges again

It’s Monday and it felt OK when I work up, not so much now though. Scary old world’s got me down again I am afraid. Depressing business though, old men waging wars for very little logical reason… But that’s not a new thing is it? Everything is a bit weird right now. So here’s a new tune to go with the madness elsewhere. I am trying to fill my time usefully at present but the gloom is creeping into my head a bit. Autumn is OK and beautiful but just not today. Today is miserable wet autumn not romantic warm old gold and red toned autumn sadly. Cheese may help of course 🙂

Just Cause You’re a Bad Person …

The car saga continues, ostensibly it is well again according to the OBC tester but I don’t entirely trust it yet, (it needs a longer run for that) and time pressures mean I have not been able to properly test it at my leisure. I need to be sure of it before doing any motorway miles. Mildly frustrating I must admit. If only there was a similar device I could plug into my brain to clear my own personal fault codes 😂 Sometimes I talk too much and also often too little, but frequently with no filter.

Winter and Bills and First World Problems

Got my Electric and gas bill for the year. £1500! Its correct but it is still a shocker and not remotely a gas. Still as they say “Easy Come, Easy go” 🙂
It has screwed up my finances a bit so I might to do a couple of extra shifts grinding at the mill 😉

I have just come back from an Orchard rehearsal and I am a wee bit tired, I am sleeping Ok but maybe not quite long enough?

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss

Looking back on life, I think I paid my dues for the wrongs that I did do, though how wrong they were I am not really sure. Can love ever be wrong?

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And,
like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
as dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
From The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

Just Doing The Doo, Was It good for You?

Just Doing The Doo, Was It good for You? Here’s another song to help you get along.

Its autumn. My cars still undecided as to if it should stay or go. Decisions, decisions I don’t know. My mind is wandering over hill and dale as ever and I am as conflicted and confused as ever too. Infact its just another normal day really. Today I was recording with the Jon Bickleys Invisible Folk Club Band at a secret location between Luton and Hitchin and a Jolly fine time was had by all too. Hurrah! The trip there was pleasant in the autumn sunshine.

Funny thing. I woke up aching and very stiff, as soon as I went out and started driving it went away and I was fine whilst we were playing and recording. Weird or what, so I wonder how much of the pain triggers are psychological? Though not the actual causes perhaps.