New resident in the house.1936 Viga plectrum banjo, bought from John Alvey in Camden Town. Big old resonator, long scale neck and is both sweet and loud. Getting used to how she sounds ..

In Sardinia, Alghero to be precise: weather nice, food good, hotel beds and breakfasts pleasant, plenty of stuff to see and do on holiday.

Over a £100 softback on the publishers website ! £160 ,on abebooks..loud sigh, a mere £60 in Bezos world. But for a commedia dell'arte completist I just gotta ... smaller sigh. I'll report back when I've read it .. hopefully soon...

I'm sort of setting up a law of divine intervention.. the more you kill the wrong sort of encounter, the worse the next encounter gets.. early days yet. But this is the book