Introducing Patrick the Fat Peasant. I suspect he has been hoovering bits of nuts and seeds from the squirrel feeder.

The harp and I and 4 friends went to a primary school yesterday to introduce 130 children to harp music. Some wolf-howling was also involved... and could probably have been heard several miles away!

oo-er, I seem to have written a protest song. Not sure I can post the whole of the lyrics here but the video is on YouTube, youtu.be/rS2gfTRiMP8

DT's deportee policy takes the USA back to the 1940s
Plane Wreck at Los Gatos
(also known as "Deportee")
Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Martin Hoffman
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWF...
...
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again

Those of my friends who know (and I hope love) my cartoon book One Fell Swoop will probably have bought its 88 A5-size piccies at the 3rd print run price of £5.00. It has sold out over the Christmas spell and I'm working on a 4th run. Costs have gone up so I'm looking at revising the price.
£7?
£8?

I was telling Graham that I’m playing my travel guitar for 20 minutes a day because I need to harden my fingertips to play comfortably. I wave my left hand at him for reference and he says, looking at my right, “What you need is one of those tiddlywinks thingies.”
:eyeroll:

Having just written an opinion piece for the Fell Pony Society's Spring 2025 Magazine I am toying with the idea - as editor - of running a regular "opinions" slot in each issue. I wonder what the resulting offerings would be like...

I'm not too sure what this is going to be like but -- willing to wait and see.