Finally got the string quartet into the studio. These days are always intense so I was very glad to have the rest of idiot son there with me. Bob & Mark had scored a couple of songs apiece and led the way. Jon had fixed the players and was a fine extra pair of ears. Turned out we needed his fixing skills more than we’d thought after one of the ( Read more... )

Last night I was really rather ill ( Read more... )

These boots just left the building ( Read more... )

Apparently the current predicament that we find ourselves in is not due to global warming. It is, in fact, due to the hundreds of thousands of un-adopted drains throughout the country (Radio 4). So forget about the Work House, the Whales, the Panda's and Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary, get out there and adopt a drain. We understand that Madonna is ( Read more... )

Having wandered into the Trinity last night and noticed the absence of a good homely pub smell it struck me that Johnsons or Ambi-poor or whoever have missed an opportunity. The plug-in Marlboro 'Air Freshener'.

Whilst prodding wrightisgod in the general direction of working for a livelihood he happened to mention that this morning, at his local railway station, they were collecting for alzheimers.
"Wish I'd known" I replied
"They could have taken my Father."

Our trousers were quite damp after that.
I am the bad son.

So a week last Wednesday I made £45 ( Read more... )

We will be watching the sunset from the top of the Gherkin in two weeks time ( Read more... )

Just when you think you really don't give a tinkers fuck about music anymore it comes around and squarely bites you in the arse. Wandered into HMV at lunch-time (there is very little else to do) scowling at whatever nonsense was on RadioHMV. Just about to turn tale when on comes a Rufus Wainwright song. I swear I stood there transfixed and choking ( Read more... )

On opening the balcony doors at chezDaisy, the lounge permeates with the heady perfume of Jasmine from the rampant plant enveloping the flats. I appear to have missed the trees blossoming outside, and would probably have continued so to do, if the minxstress hadn’t pointed out that the last time she was here we could still see the bloated pigeons ( Read more... )