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A Facebook memory popped up today from the period following’s Mum’s death when I would occasionally look back on happy times. The photo of me and her was taken in her back garden in May 2013 just before we departed for a family wedding in Banbury. What I always liked about this photo was that
We had a lovely afternoon in Windsor catching up with Andrew and Kellie on the final day of their 2022 European Tour! We first met at the Sydney Ashes Test in January 2007 and it all grew from that fateful day. I was in Australia with my friends Lewis and Adam, also meeting up with
Well if someone had ever told me that in 2022 I would spend my Friday night watching the last ever episode of Neighbours, I would never have believed them. Friday nights, in fact most nights, back in the 80s and 90s meant getting absolutely plastered! Back then though, I did watch Neighbours every lunchtime after
With my Fields of Dawn album, A New Dawn, not too far away now, I am thinking of new promotion ideas. I’ve planned to release a video of a track off the album. So I now have an expanded idea to release a digital single with a video. However, I don’t want to just release
Today, I finally got round to ordering a new passport. My last one ran out a couple of years ago at the start of the pandemic, so there was little point in bothering to renew it at the time. I haven’t been someone who has been chomping at the bit to get on a plane,
Today has been a day of arrivals. This wonderful print arrived today and is the creation of the amazingly talented Lucy Dunbar. There is no mistaking the late Dame Deborah James and Lucy is selling these prints to raise funds for the Bowelbabe Fund. It’s such a beautiful illustration and once the frame arrives it
My local post office in Hambleden, and today a strange, but quite lovely thing occurred. The post office is 5 minutes from work and I have been coming to the shop for 20 years now, ever since we moved the business out to Medmenham. Of course over time staff come and go, but invariably they
Today’s post was a toss up between kindness and loneliness. In the end I thought my thoughts on my loneliness can wait for another time, especially when I consider how many people are going through so much harder times than me. The bad news on television and fed to us by the media is relentless.
Tonight I treated myself to a proper alcoholic beer. My first drink in 21 months! I’ve always said that I would have a drink when I felt like it, and tonight for no real reason, apart from it being the end of a warm summer’s day, I fancied a cold beer. It’s Rebellion Blonde from
A slightly different music story today. I will be honest in that I am not a fan of the ukulele instrument. Today a slightly senior gentleman came to work to pick up some scrap cardboard I said he could have. He was a musician and had a vintage Australian bass guitar, I think a Maton,
