Stevie Nicks, now 75 at Sofi Stadium on the 11th March 2023 singling Landslide as a tribute to Christine McVie.

https://youtu.be/f7ZEe33xcd4?si=BSdEIpUcEsaZvxqT

Congratulations xXx

I remember seeing a Bond Bug in about 1970 and I was absolutely fascinated by it. I waited ages for someone to come and drive it away but it didn't happen.

One of the local older boys had one - his dad was quite well off and one of the older lads I knew to chat to said, I dunno the things people do to try to grab attention. I struggled not to laugh, he had a Lambretta with about 44 wing mirrors on it.

Wp wp Glenn

Joni Mitchell will be 80 on November 7th. After suffering a brain aneurysm rupture in 2015 I can say hand on heart I would not have been surprised if an announcement saying the worst was on the cards.

It didn't come and after undergoing physical therapy and learning to walk again on July 24th 2022 with the support of many friends she played a set including a solo on the guitar at the legendary Newport Folk festival in Rhode Island.

I confess to not loving 100% of her music but oh my gosh if you read her Wiki you will see what a legend she is.

She is incredibly loved and respected by so many and Brandi Carlisle especially has been with her through it all, much respect to everyone.

Here she is singing Summertime and then Circle Game with some of her friends at the 2023 Gershwin Prize concert on March 1st where she was awarded the 2023 Gershwin Prize for her lifetime contributions to popular music.

There is a long introduction before the song by the way.

https://youtu.be/PNwjFU2yEBM?si=f5TMRnAlAHKGkIUG

Such a remarkable lady.

Serves you right for wearing em.

Ralph wears trysers.

As a northern person I wear trollies.

OK. I'm doing the hedges again and I've just been attacked by a huge dark coloured wasp that seemed determined to sting my face.

I jumped off the ladder and ran around waving my arms and screaming, (As per my special forces training) but it wouldn't go away.

"Oh my God" I thought, "It's one of those Asian hornets that was on the news"


Eventually I calmed down enough to realise it was just a privet leaf attached to the peak of my cap by a strand of spider Web.

 

 

 

Tonight's dinner. (Or tea if you're from t' North)

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Smoked bacon broth done in the electric pressure cooker/slow cooker.

Is that part of your fryer? I saw a Ninja the other week that baked, fried, roasted, dehydrated and allsorts, about 10 different things. Amazing technology.

While we're on the subject of being alone, here's a little trick I learned in the special forces for shaving your neck after cutting your own hair.

Perfect for when you have no oppo in your basha.

Jeepers that made me shudder. My mum used to cut my fringe by putting sellotape across it to mark the cutting line. Always straight. Always turned out at an angle. Always had the p taken out of me at school for a few days.

Why should the air-fryer get special treatment?

Because it's greasy Ralph. We've agreed that the greasy stuff has to be washed.

Why is it so greasy that it needs a soak Tom? I haven't got one but I thought the whole point of one was that they only need a teeny weeny yellow...oh sorry I meant not much oil?

I remember saying at the time, "Today I was pissing in the poshest toilet in the world, tonight I'm pissing in a bucket."

It might be nice Tom but it's not proper posh unless there is Molton Brown in the powder rooms.

R.I.P Bernie.

Congratulations Kev

So it turns out the elderly looking chap was Jamie Moult, aka bookiebasher, & the portly looking younger chap was Neil Giblin, aka JAKALLY. Here's the three of us after convening in The Three Horseshoes post-round. (I never knew the other chap who, as it happens, was much the nicest of the three).

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Wow!

Jakally is looking very well. I really would like to have a chat with him, I owe him that and more.

xXx