On Thursday we didn’t think it was going to happen as the environment agency broadcast severe weather warnings for the entire Eastern coast of the UK with our designated travel destination in Great Yarmouth lost under red triangles on the map! Yatta told us to hold steady and await a site report at 10am before leaving. I was facing a … Read More

Finally landed back at the house and spent the first part of the afternoon in full on work mode before being welcomely side tracked by visits from friends and catching up with Tara and Angus. Early evening was in front of the TV watching 2 episodes of ” Boardwalk Empire” – gets better every series- fish and chips and white … Read More

Just back from the movies with my lady. “Captain Phillips” had been recommended to me by a friend and when we found it was on at the Schauburg Kino in Karlsruhe and screening in original English with German subtitles it was a must. A fine cinema, Karlsruhe’s oldest with big comfy seats, cheap nachos and as much cheese dip as … Read More

Last day this year in Durlach, home tomorrow to ready myself for the show at the weekend in Great Yarmouth. Not looking forward to the drive on Friday but the motor serviced and MOT’d and the winter tyres back on. It seems like only a few months ago they were being stacked in the garage! “Secret” has been up at … Read More

It’s a wrenching feeling leaving the house and clambering back on a bus to head for foreign climes! That last minute house check, counting the cats to make sure they haven’t stowed away on the bus, going through the list of things that had to be done and racking your brain to remember all the bus extras! The big pillow … Read More

The rain crackled like small arms fire on the plastic roof over the balcony in Durlach. We’d raced the darkening clouds home from Borsalino’s restaurant where gathering winds had forced us inside from the terrace. As the ink of the night spread and stole the blue of the sky we’d watched the black and white footage of World War one … Read More

The O2 Islington Academy is a very strange venue built into a shopping centre complex and as such has no real vibe. It’s quite subterranean with tiny dressing rooms in the bowels of the concrete structure, 2 floors down and a hefty walk if you forsake the clunky lift. The actual performance area is in a box with a very … Read More

I was glad it was a short drive to Holmfirth as I was slightly hungover after a night that span from Mr Lau’s on a tide of Mojitos that washed a few of us up together in a nearby bar where white wine done for most of us. Saying that I was still in bed by midnight but needed the … Read More