04/08/2022

I gave blood today for the first time since before the pandemic. Although the pandemic has played a part in me not donating for longer than I would like, one of the other problems I have found is finding a venue and time that is convenient. Oh and just being a bit rubbish of course.

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03/08/2022

Today I watched this quite brilliant and informative Trekstock video which was filmed on Monday night in London. My lovely friend Nat Woodward was on the panel, so I was keen to watch it. It really is something that I would urge you to watch, as it really was an eyeopener into how cancer patients

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02/08/2022

A New Dawn by Fields of Dawn Today I have uploaded A New Dawn to my Bandcamp site. Bandcamp is great site to buy music from as their fees are much lower than other digital platforms. Although I’d love people to purchase from rivers2cross, I am making the album available on as many platforms as

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01/08/2022

With the impending threat of a hosepipe ban, I am thinking the colours in my garden could come to an end a little sooner than I would have liked. One of last shrubs to bloom is my beautiful Hibiscus, which has began to flower over the last week. I have grown this from a tiny

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31/07/2022

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

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30/07/2022

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

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29/07/2022

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

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28/07/2022

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

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27/07/2022

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,

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26/07/2022

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

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