How Winter Kills

Well it'd like to bloody try wouldn't it? What is it with cold weather and getting ill and why does it keep picking on me? Well, Mother Nature tried to do away with me when I was born 51 years ago, and she failed then. So don't think I'm going without a fight.

My band is coming along nicely, it'll be better when we resolve the missing bass player problem. My slide guitar playing is improving, thankfully. It's now leaving the tortured cat phase and becoming something akin to musical. Can't wait to show that skill off in public. We hosted the excellent Roadhouse in the Oud Brabant the other Sunday, they came, they saw, they conquered. Hard not to with three female singers leading the way - fantastic harmonies and bags of energy. You can see them frozen in time here: http://davidsonmick.squarespace.com/hall-of-fame/roadhouse

On the bike front, the Christmas bike has been seen speeding through the trees, crashing through ruts and splashing through puddles in the nearby woods. So far I've not managed to kill myself, or fall off, but it's only a matter of time. Though none of this will happen before I get some new glasses. Having given all our old glasses to Africa, I promptly lost mine, so now can't cycle or drive. Some would argue that owning glasses isn't going to improve my driving - but only because they know that I can't see them when I'm behind the wheel.

Hasta la Pasta Kiddoes!

He's a Winner

I can't say much right now, but I've just won 1st prize in a photographic competition - the first time I've ever won a prize in such a competition (mainly coz I've only entered one before). You can see the winning foto here: http://davidsonmick.squarespace.com/graffiti/graffiti-no-2/

But for those of you who can't wait, here it is in slow motion:

Hasta la foto!

Verandered!

Or, All change! in English. As a frequent flyer on my website you'll not failed to have noticed one or two minor changes have taken place in recent weeks. Yes, not only have I totally changed the look, I've also changed the structure, so that the fotos are accessed from the left, and the writing from the right.  So feel free to click away, and please do leave a message if you have any opinions on my work.

Chuck's away!

Damned if I Will...

Sorry, even less this time, but - I've been busy, done loads of foto work, not to mention guitar thrashing, cycling (re-living some of the less speedy moments of the recent Tour de France), loads of writing - the novel is now up to 66k+ words. Now getting toward the end of the first run through - the initial sketch as I like to think of it, and am gearing up to a) write the end, and b) add all the juicy bits - and when I say juicy I mean it in just about every way possible.

Oh yes, have bought a new jacket, new shoes, two shirts and a pair of rugged shorts for the summer - possibly a whole year's clothes shopping in the space of two months - what am I like?

Aardvark and De Chi,

Just a Quickie

To let you know that in the Hall of Fame gallery are not one, but TWO galleries for the recent 'Return of Alan Haynes' gig at the Oud Brabant here in Oosterhout. Also, check out Breda's funking force Bentje.

More soon,