Personal Blogs

Did you watch ‘The Spice Trail’ with Kate Hamster last night? Bless her beady little black eyes! They were looking at Saffron and Vanilla (I thought they were the other two in Destiny’s Child, but apparently not), and very interesting it was too. They showed a man pollinating vanilla blossoms - very daring before the watershed. My grandfather was a saffron trader in the 1920’s but he jacked it in. There was such a stigma attached to it.I donned my pinny and rubber gloves earlier and switched the head on my extendable duster to clean up in readiness for the w/e (What did you think I was going to say? Swingers party at the rugby club?). Listened to both Grinderman CD’s and then took a trip down memory lane by sticking on David Bowie’s ‘Lodger’. Been so long since I’d listened to it that when it got to the fade on ‘Red Sails’ I started walking into the front room ready to turn over and put on side 2! Ahhhh... vinyl. Still miss it, but really haven’t the room these days. Was singing along to ‘Yassassin’ and found I’ve developed a natural vibrato on the ‘siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin’ part. Never had that before, is it a sign of old age? Perhaps it was wind? Who said you can’t teach an old fart new tricks?