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I I first played the guitar in public when I was 12. That was 44 years ago. A lifetime of dreams in wood and wire. I still have that first guitar, a little Selmer. I still play it. But, oh, how I used to fantasise about a ‘proper’ flat-top, jumbo, something exotic and glamorous like…

Sl 378 Cover Corrections

…in my humble opinion… Tom Waits: Bad as Me Gillian Welch: The Harrow and the Harvest Frank Turner: England Keep My Bones Babybird: The Pleasures of Self Destruction Laura Marling: A Creature I Don’t Know Josh T Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen Ryan Adams: Ashes and Fire British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehall Arcade Fire:…

That was my Christmas present two years ago, that weather station thingy. There’s a wireless connection to a screen inside, but frankly, I’m not sure how it works or what it means. The wind is always worse than the weather station says, because the anemometer is too sheltered. If it weren’t, it would be in…

If there was one record that set my feet upon the path of rock’n’roll, it was…Prodigal, by The Gospelfolk. Released in 1969, we had one of the first copies to see the light of day, as the lead singer, one John MacCalman, was my mum’s wee brother and a hero to me and my sisters.…

Just back from Pisa (it has a tower that leans) and Lucca, wherein I got lost, in a car, in streets that grew ever narrower, until it was just me and this tiny wee old woman in a red oilskin…or am I thinking about somewhere else?  Anyway, here’s a thing: Glen Grant Five Year Old,…

At the finish: Last but only slightly embarrassed James with his free fish supper and milkshake Almost over I felt sick. It could have been the over-abundance of granola and porridge (carb loading, on son James’s advice) or simply nerves. This morning was Shetland’s, and my, first cycle sportive, in aid of the Royal National…

….with many thanks to Richard and Jolene at Precious Productions!