On the Musical Scale of Various Nations

Lovely Autumn day on Newcastle… Oh wait, it’s...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:41:35 -0400

Lovely Autumn day on Newcastle… Oh wait, it’s March?!?!?!? #BritishWeatherFailContinues

Granny Ewing ALWAYS has the best stamps. #GrandDuchess #Legend...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:37:17 -0400

Granny Ewing ALWAYS has the best stamps. #GrandDuchess #Legend #DrWho

Audio

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:15:32 -0400

Royal Comrade, let no-body know. For, if it is a fine evening,...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:37:32 -0500

Royal Comrade, let no-body know.

For, if it is a fine evening, then a-bathing we’ll go

Another lonesome saturday night, just fiddlin’ by...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:20:55 -0500

Another lonesome saturday night, just fiddlin’ by myself…

"It is the end of an organic journey from criminality to equality for the gay community that began..."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:48:00 -0500

“

It is the end of an organic journey from criminality to equality for the gay community that began over a half century ago. This change is right, this change is necessary and the time is now.

There are still those who say this is all unnecessary. Why do we need gay marriage when we already have civil partnership, they say. They are the same - separate but equal - they claim. Let me speak frankly - separate but equal is a fraud. Separate but equal is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. Separate but equal is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets. It is an excerpt from the phrasebook of the segregationist and the racists. This is not separate but equal it is separate and discriminated, separate and oppressed, separate and brow beaten, separate and subjugated.

Separate is not equal so let us be rid of it.

”

- David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham

Debate on the same sex bill. 05/02/2013

Audio

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:44:27 -0500

AMAZING short documentary!! He even plays a Stradivarius!!!

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:34:00 -0500

AMAZING short documentary!!

He even plays a Stradivarius!!!

"I warn you that you will have pain when healing and relief depend upon payment. I warn you that you..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:39:11 -0500

“I warn you that you will have pain when healing and relief depend upon payment. I warn you that you will have ignorance when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right. I warn you that you will have poverty when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a government that won’t pay in an economy that can’t pay. I warn you that you will be cold when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don’t notice and the poor can’t afford. I warn you that you must not expect work when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don’t earn, they don’t spend. When they don’t spend, work dies. I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light. I warn you that you will be quiet when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient. I warn you that you will have defence of a sort with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding. I warn you that you will be home-bound when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up. I warn you that you will borrow less when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income. If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.”

- Neil Kinnock - 1983

This is amazing. These words are so relevant today.

BANG BANG. Boothe shot Lincoln down…..

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:47:00 -0500

BANG BANG. Boothe shot Lincoln down…..

Patti Page died the other week. My emotional tribute to the girl...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:29:00 -0500

Patti Page died the other week. My emotional tribute to the girl who sang my most favorite song ever!!

Something from my only ever recording project… Hilarssssss...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:23:00 -0500

Something from my only ever recording project… Hilarssssss x

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:59:12 -0500

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A White Rhino and a Meercat hang out… Bunting goes up....

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:55:00 -0500

A White Rhino and a Meercat hang out…

Bunting goes up. Shit goes down.

So I’ve been kind of hanging out on youtube a bit...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:53:35 -0500

So I’ve been kind of hanging out on youtube a bit more…

I’m enjoying throwing stuff up for ALL to see, yet not being famous enough for anyone to really take notice!!! Funny juxtaposition.

Two heroes of mine. Alex is pretty much the Queen of the clog...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:17:13 -0500

Two heroes of mine.

Alex is pretty much the Queen of the clog dancers, especially with regard to the steps of my home region. Here I think she’s bashing out moves from another county here however…

Carolyn on’t fiddle taught me pretty much most of everything I know on that instrument. I doubt my playing will ever live up to hers, but one can try! She made the tune she’s playing here. Bloomin’ Legend!

I decided to throw up some stuff from my final recital earlier...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:01:30 -0500

I decided to throw up some stuff from my final recital earlier this year. Alot of fun. Spread the word….

Photo

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:09:15 -0500

"You don’t exactly penetrate another culture, as the masculinist image would have it. You put..."

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:50:24 -0500

“You don’t exactly penetrate another culture, as the masculinist image would have it. You put yourself in its way and it bodies forth and enmeshes you.”

- Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, 1995

Paying Homage to the QUEEN herself…

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:49:42 -0500

Paying Homage to the QUEEN herself…