I did the annual RSPB birdwatch survey and spotted a grand total of TWO birds in the back garden. That's terrible! I'm sure there's usually way more than that. One of them was an intelligent looking Blackbird who kept looking up to me in my plastic lawn chair as if to say "you know, if you went and got me some more raisins, I could maybe eat those ( Read more... )

If you are able to see this BBC4 documentary on Glen Campbell please do. Not only does it cover and do justice to Campbell's astonishing talent as a guitarist but there are some fascinating interviews with the other members of the amazing Wrecking Crew, the crack squad of session musicians who played on well, nearly all records in the sixties ever ( Read more... )