James and Artwork

Yesterday I had lunch with my friend James, who is a very talented webmaster. We sat in the courtyard of the Lighthouse, used the free wi fi, ate chicken salad and chatted about his girlfriend Stephs new job. It was great. Whilst talking we realised we would like to...

The Eating Session

What a great weekend! June brought doughnuts, Fran baked beautiful sun dried tomato bread and chocolate brownies, John prepared a crisp/cheese buffet and I treated everyone to a personal lunchtime favourite of peanut butter, tuna and cheddar on toast. In between all...

Terrible Love Songs and other reactions

Dear all, Welcome to my online review buffet (including some of the best titled blogs ever!): 1. http://terriblelovesongs.blogspot.com/2008/08/star-shines-light-on-unsigned-bands.html 2. http://www.brumlive.com/2008/05/ida-maria-dan-whitehouse-glee-club.html 3....

Why Am I A Singer Songwriter? (Episode 2)

Here’s another reason, as promised: I do it to obtain punctuation in my life, certain songs/albums mark out where things started/ended or just went a bit funny. Music is strong like that. And thank you to everyone who bought the Home Composting CD so far this year,...

Why Am I A Singer Songwriter? (Episode 1)

There are several reasons and over the next little while i’ll be discussing them all on this blog. Here is the first: I do this because creating and performing and listening to music breaks the relentless nature of everyday life.