http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-32545837

Even with sprinkler systems etc, still these stores of history and craftsmanship get destroyed each year. Last year it was the Art College in Glasgow. Let's hope this is the last such building to be lost this year.

Folk by the Oak

Today 6 of us went thru to Hatfield for a one day folky fest.
Richard Thompson was the highlight for me and he was bang on form and the sound was perfectly brilliant as we have come to expect from him. It was a really easy set of mostly his older popular songs. Strangely I just don't seem to remember the newer ones that I don't ( Read more... )

A sortof step back in the right direction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-24377994

I hope ppl can learn the difference between nature and freedom loving Naturists, and those other members of the public who want to do other stuff in the nude and are ( Read more... )

The BBC helps disseminate this documentation of history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-24329416

And now we know what Alice is up to these days :)

The sun shone for the 10 days I was up in Edinburgh...but that doesn't mean it was warm! Busy times but well worth it and have left a little part of it brighter than before :) Hope to return in August - festival chaos time.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22201971
In pictures :)

May - Acoustic Festival
June - Strawberry Fair - europes largest free festival/day out?
Beverley Festival - Chumba, Home Service, CB&S!!! OR Big Session - Oysterband etc
July - Ely Folk Festival including Show of Hands!!!???? really??? Oh yes :)
Secret Garden - mostly Sold Out unless you won the lottery
Cambridge FF or Warwick Folk Festival!! ( Read more... )

June Tabor and Oysterband do it again 21 years on ( Read more... )

Last week turned busy after the cable guy failed to turn up to fix the internet/phone midweek. ( A wander up to the lovely Cambridge botanic gardens... )

RT at The Palace with daughter who looks more like (alpie's Kate). And RT with the Queen.

On his official website too.