Friday I woke in good time, indulged in two of the three “S’s” a gentleman conducts in a morning and headed down to the Hotel Bar for Breakfast: There was a good selection of cereals and a wide variety of fruit juice available alongside the cooked breakfast, naturally I went for a full English Breakfast … Continue reading Upton Jazz Festival 2018 #2 Friday Part One
My second real social attempts at karaoke took place in London in November 2015 when I went down to the big Smoke to visit my old friend Amy Cherry, we hadn't seen each other in person since previous when she visited me a for a few days. We met up twice and on the first … Continue reading A Night at the Opera (ii)
Last week was a late booked few days off work, it was a nice little recharge and some needed time doing naff all. Sunday I did the double and went to both the Sunday Lunch time gig at Albrighton, which was the new band "Frog and Henry", and the Evening gig at the Wild … Continue reading A Holiday for the Sandman
Light Motfits Three Thing Challenge: Bananas, Keyboard, Rattle As many of my readers know one of my hobby horses is to go and see live Jazz whenever I can. Being based in Shropshire this mostly involves going to local pubs which have Jazz nights. For a long period my regular venue was the Harp in … Continue reading 3TC: The Scribe
Slightly inspired by Crushed Caramel's post Party's Over Señorita Way back in 2009 just before Christmas.I went for a two week holiday on the Venezuelan Isle of Margarita which is in the Caribbean and is the closest island to the mainland of Venezuela. I had gone with Levi and Pete who were regular drinkers at … Continue reading A Night at the Opera
Did you have to help out with chores when you were growing up? If so, what were you assigned to do? Yes, I would do the dishes- either washing or drying. Rake up leaves off the lawn, do the hoovering and occasionally mo the lawn. When very young it was pretty much laying the table. … Continue reading Share Your World 7th January 2019
Bonfire night is a funny one for me. Many people of my age have fond memories of visiting big Firework displays and the assorted fun fairs which went with them. I can remember only going to one big public one in my childhood and I can't recall the exact circumstances why we went and why … Continue reading Please to Remember…
When I was a spotty little 'erbert of a teenage Sandman I was quite a big reader, although more accurately I was a big reader of the BBC's Original Doctor Who fiction ranges having purchased most of their two ranges and read most of them too (I think many were left unread but purchased), with … Continue reading Fandango’s One Word Challenge- Cheap
What Is Your Favourite Beverage? (for those who really dislike “favourite” questions, hey, time to time, one just pops in and will not be denied). In a none alcoholic capacity it is Tea, after all I am an Englishman. Fizzy Drinks I am not so big on as they give me wind. I do like … Continue reading Share Your World 17th September 2018
Very near to my childhood home is a Wood planted on a left over slag heap from Shropshire's industrial past and while this place is now seemingly a popular venue for vagabonds and pot heads, it was during my childhood a popular place for me and my friends to hang out and play our childhood … Continue reading FOWC- The Wood on the Slag Heap
