TweetIt’s been about two months since I first started practising my banjo. I mentioned in an early post how I chose what to start learning. After taking some advice from the good folk at Banjo Hangout I decided to go for Janet Davis’s You Can Teach Yourself Banjo, book and DVD. For UK-based budding pickers, [...]
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Learning the 5-string banjo pt 2: Choosing what to learn
Tweet You can have a lot of fun researching, choosing and then buying your banjo. I certainly did. I also enjoyed joining the banjo fraternity/sorority at Banjo Hangout and I even joined the Banjo Player’s Union. I too have my 2011 special edition t-shirt and stickers, which I love. But none of the cosiness of [...]
Learning the 5-string banjo pt 1: Buying
TweetI thought I would continue to chronicle my experience with the banjo in stages. So here is a bit about my experience of choosing and buying one. After a lot of research into other people’s experiences and getting the basics of what kind of banjo would suit me best I created a shopping list: 1. [...]
Banjos
TweetThey say you know a gentleman by his ability to play the banjo, but his choice not to. Or words to that effect. This and other banjo jokes have not deterred my long-standing interest in the instrument and its music. Recently Steve Martin produced an album that epitomises a banjo lover’s seduction by this peculiar [...]
The Milonga
TweetIncredible. On yesterday’s (23/11/08) Strictly Come Dancing results show, professional partners Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace danced the Milonga, apparently a pre-cursor to the Argentine Tango. They danced it to Milonga de mis amores by Juan D’Arienzo, a traditional tune but it also be found on the soundtrack to the film The Tango Lesson (1997).
Dancing the way to livening up this blog
TweetThis blog has become stale, and a little dull, even to me. Train stories and socio-political goings on are all very well – and I have a lot to say about them – but I have become somewhat bored so I am going to try and start blogging about different things. I would like to [...]
Robert Key wins FGW tickets
TweetDuring yesterday’s Commons debate, Robert Key, MP (Cons) for Salisbury contributing the following:- Oral Answers to Questions – Wales: Train Services (4 Jul 2007) Robert Key: The fourth prize in a recent charity auction in my constituency was a pair of First Great Western first class return tickets to London. I do not think that [...]
Long live Cheeserolling!
Tweet CRW_2945 Originally uploaded by mike warren A wonderful image of Gloucestershire cheeserolling taken by Mike Warren. During this fine annual Whitsun bank holiday tradition people from all over the world chase (roll) in pursuit of a rather large Gloucester cheeses down Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire. See more cheeserolling photos here. News stories seem more concerned [...]
Google maps directions: swim
Tweet I have recently returned from the USA. While I was there I wanted to find out how many miles I had travelled. I duly went to Google Maps and found out: approximately 3,500 miles between Salisbury (home) and New Jersey (first port of call). What I didn’t expect were the precise directions: 12. Slight [...]
My aristocratic title (var. peculiar)
Tweet My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Very Lady Tehmina the Antique of Giggleswick under Table Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title There are more important things to be blogging about. I will get onto these soon, she says with uncharacteristic certainty.
