Saturday 2 January 2010

Strange musical synchronicity of the day coming up. I listened to The Troggs Tapes for the first time this afternoon, still filling gaps in my musical education. And then I found myself stumbling across 'The Best of Bernard Cribbins' on Spotify, and there on 'B-side Blues' is a cryptic reference to ... The Troggs Tapes. Mr Cribbins points out the sound of a 12-string guitar, and then that 'The Troglodytes found it indispensable'. Now that is bizarre.

Anyway, a Good New Year to one and all. I saw another, more experienced ophthalmologist on Thursday, who basically told me that the previous one was talking complete nonsense and I have only one eye condition, but I have it very bad. Which is what I'd suspected.

Also on Thursday my Yamaha travel guitar arrived, so I've been practising, re-stringing it, mucking about, and putting it through a variety of silly effects on my laptop in preparation for a session or two this week. There's only a bit less paper on the floor.

This year's new year's day walk looked like this:

and today's like this: