Crusty Jugglers

Well, we saw the crusties off on the 9th October and we had a great time round at kezzer's and jimbob's. In fact we spent too long round there and before we knew it, it was 11pm and we had to race home. When I said "race home" I meant meandered on my bike, but it was a great evening. James had to take them to the airport at 4.30 the next morning and I think they had already started on the vino then. Nightmare. Anyway, they went off happily and we were all happy until about 4 hours later Rope's gran died. We've not heard sight nor sound of him since so we think he may miss the funeral. Shame really. All his reletives tend to pop off when he's away. I'm thinking that Portugal may be bad luck for him and his family....

Seasick Steve

Well, we went to see Seasick Steve on Friday 3rd at Southampton Guildhall. I had front row seats in the balcony, but we hung around in the standing area and didn't actually make it up stairs. He was brilliant. His slide guitar is great and his blues is exceptional. Particularly as he claims he was a hobo, jumping the trains to get from one side of the US to the other. He is the flavour of the month in the music business and did a gig at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday, so I think we're in good company. He was fab, although I think his gig was blighted by "Friday nighters" as there were loads of people there just chatting all the way through the set. He didn't take it sitting down though and stood up with his baseball bat and said "Shut the fuck up!" I think they took the hint because it quietened down and we all listened respectfully to his hobo stories. It was good to be out with Patsy too.

Piccys

Well, we had a last supper last night with the Howards and Rope and it was a fantastic evening. I think he's been on his own decorating because he was so chatty and that's unusual for him I think. he's off next Thursday and the Howards have said that they're not going to be able to do a Portugal visit, so hey ho. It will mean that I save more towards one in the new year I suppose and Rope will be gagging for a bit of company by then!

here are a few tasters of the forage in the forest 2008:-

Foray in the Forest 2008

We had a blast! I'll post some piccys later, but we had such a good time. Saturday was spent setting up and then the guys went off to forage for shrooms and I read my new graphic "The Wormwood Chronicles". When the guys came back, they cooked the shrooms and I reckon we catered for about 20 people including Liz's two little ones and my Anna. We managed to eat everything and also drink the contents of a small wine cellar. We took the tent and it was freezing in the evening and I'm sure I didn't sleep, although the rutting deer and the galloping and neighing stallions didn't help, along with patsy doing his impression of a PIG and snorting in his sleep. He was nearly smothered, it got so bad and I did end up punching him and saying "shut the F*ck up!" Sorry.
So that was lovely. Like I say I'll post the piccys up here soon. S x