7 Days: Day 4 – Going to Northants

In the car on the way to see Granpop, with rain beating against the windows. The technically-minded among you will surely appreciate the fact that I took this with Photobooth in the car and then uploaded it to Flickr outside John’s house, stealing his wi-fi before he’d even got home to join us on the [...]

7 Days: Day 3 – Linz leaves its mark

I don’t tan very much – not least because I tend not to be out in the sun very often. But then I went to Linz and spent three days facing a stage with the sun shining down on me from behind, carefully roasting my camera-bearing arm and shoulder. So now I have the most [...]

7 Days: Day 2 – Relax

After lots of work making yummy food, here I am at the party, wine in hand, food on the table, guests happy. Time to relax at last. We had a lovely day, the weather was beautiful and we were all able to sit out in the garden, enjoying ourselves.
We tried a number of new dishes [...]

7 Days: Day 1 – Looking for the butter

This morning on the first day of 7 Days I wanted some toast before all the cooking for tomorrow’s party kicks off, so I went to the fridge for the butter … but it was a bit full.
Mum and I have spent the day cooking and preparing all sorts of things: cheesecake, sausage rolls, cheese [...]

A good moment

Although most of you guys reading don’t really know who he is, I tend to be a bit coy when talking about my musician – no names, just pronouns perhaps – so that it’s more difficult for a personal anecdote I want to tell to be picked up by random Googlers.
But this little story played [...]

Five days, fifteen bands, many miles

Suzy and I are off on an Austrian adventure tomorrow. And while some lucky people (those who live in Linz, for example) get to just wander down the road to attend the Linz Europe Harbour Festival, for us it’s a bit more of a trek. And because the journey wasn’t grand enough, we’ve now added [...]

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