Choice reply when asked to attend a dinner party.

No thanks, “Last time I checked, Sex is better than acting fake while eating food.”

Being on a Monday, St Patrick’s Day was potentially going to be quiet, I thought as I packed my fiddle and loaded the van. At least the set-up would be easy - no pushing through the crowds… Okay, so how wrong can you be? The set-up for the first show was amidst a lunchtime crowd [...]

Many of you will have been following my progress on building a pochette or travel fiddle on my other blog After a total of about ten days work spread over about six weeks I now have a pochette! They said it takes ages to learn how to make a violin - they were right - [...]

Yes I’ve been neglecting this blog a little, but grab a cuppa because this is really neat It was my birthday recently and a pleasant surprise arrived right on time from the USA. It was a package - tantalisingly box-like When I opened it, out came a package of metal bits and a reassuringly large [...]