Peter Shepherd - drums, Chris Needham - bass, Lloyd Watkins - banjo, Dennis Danby - guitar, vocals, Spike Woods - guitar, vocals.

Mon. 10 Dec 2000. 8.45am. It's very windy on the exposed slopes of Waterley Bottom hill; warmer and sheltered in the quarry but...

Pig Latin is the use of English words that in some comical way sound like historical Latin. I first came across it at school where I was...

A few years ago I amused myself by thinking of comical names for particular patron saints. here are a few - - - - - Lots more to come....

I think I may have invented a new spread! For the last few days I have been making apple sauce and bottling it. I also made some jars of...

You're in for a treat if you've never rowed a curragh! A friend of mine's Dad had one and let me row it in Pwllgwaelod bay in Pembs when...

Along the willow river valley an otter whistled; the evening closed warm over the trees and the sunset flared red among the flickering...

Wilford pit is the only coal mine I have been down. Dave Turner, musician and comic, was working as a ganger there ( in charge of the pit...

One of the most influential books I've read is by David Lindsay. I believe it was published in the thirties, and called Voyage to...

creepers slowly climbing the old house's side. like the gnarled fingers of an aged human, wrinkled and sly. The still Grecian...

The cabbages tremble in the long paradise of gravied stifled truth and are swallowed to the crunched midden of acid dark. Gibbons are...

It was New Year's Eve and I was nineteen, and filled with the Bird-God myth. I crossed the river Trent by ferry-boat at Barton ferry and...

If you want to know more about anything, look no further than Tom Scott on youtube. He's put up an incredible amount of informative and...

I just heard on the radio the scientific explanation of how fish appear in a landlocked pond. The usual explanation was that birds...

I spent an hour or two making horseradish sauce, with weeping eyes and copious sinus activity. What a powerful plant! Nothing quite like...

Remembering a morning in late summer many years ago when I went out to the lawn to find scrambled egg strewn all over it! Great gobbets...

The nature writer W.H. Hudson wrote an adage that appeals to me : Pet nothing and persecute nothing. I presume he was mainly referring to...

There's nothing worse than a fountain pen that works intermittently! There's usually caked ink somewhere in the feed from the barrel to...

In the middle of last night I woke up thinking about the first Art teacher who taught me (apart from my mother and father). In 1949 I...

There is a cool wind blowing across the garden from the North-East, scattering carmine Virginia creeper leaves across the grass -...

April 2 2020. Corona virus still rampant across the world. I am isolating myself here for the duration. and one of my daughters is...