Throwback Thursday: The Horseshoe Tsunami

This is a throw back to a Livejournal posted in October 2006. A different time but some names will be  familiar to contemporary readers. Water, water everywhere and every chance to stink With Mel and Nathan away on holiday, Tim has been on one long watch and this weekend has been a unusual turn of events. First …

Share your World week 42

If you wanted to de-clutter where you live, what room / space would you start with?  (And why, if you’re feel like admitting to it.) I would probably start with the bedroom although physicallying speaking I am restricted  on space, so I would perhaps consider turning it from a bed room to a store room. …

Star Eyes

People talk about a twinkle in someones eye when they have a mischievous side to them, admittedly I've never spotted one. Maybe I don't spend enough time looking into people's eyes, I some how doubt the regulars at the Plume or general patrons elsewhere would be amused if I started staring into unsolicited eyeballs. I think there …

English on a Wet Friday

Now this was a rather unexpected word in the daily prompt roster and it immediately bought me back to my Secondary School days and English Lessons on a Friday Morning  during year 8. I recall that for year 8 I was in a class which had a bizarre set up of three teachers for each …

The Weather Meddler

I am delving into the childhood memories and touching on a topic which is pretty much forbidden to talk about. But before anyone gets worried and feels the need to send a representative of Operation Yewtree to have an informal chat about my childhood, relax this is not a tale of darkness. No when myself …

Chasin’ the Trane

I think one moment of awe in my life I always remember was when I heard Blue Train for the first time. I heard the title track of the legendary Jazz album on one of those "Best (insert genre) Album in the World Ever" type compilations which were popular around the turn of the century and although …

Photos from Upton Jazz Festival 2012

I took over 200 photos of various quality at Upton, so this is only a very minor selection from the festival.

Upton Jazz Festival 2012 Day 3 part two

I consulted my programme to see what the next gig for the afternoon was and to my delight it was the band Tipitina, a band I remember seeing last year and immensely enjoying and the offering under the bridge didn’t really grab my fancy, so I opted to remain within the confines of the Jazz …

Upton Jazz Festival 2012 day 3 part 1

I awoke in good humour and started my daily ritual, booked myself a taxi at the slightly better time of 10:30pm and checked to make sure my camera battery was charged, for a change in attire today I went to tweed jacket number two and switched my fez for my trilby. I stopped off at …

Upton Jazz Festival Day 2 Part 2

Once my lunch was over and I had thoroughly digested it I proceeded over to “Fat’s Place” where ‘Pete Allen’s Traditional Jazz Seven were performing, as I entered the tent they were playing the Bix Beiderbecke associated number “At the Jazz Band Ball”, unsurprisingly there was no Bass Saxophone in the ensemble to recreate Rollini’s …