West Highland Way
So, I’m doing the West Highland Way in July. I’ll be posting updates here as cell coverage / wifi availability allows. Really looking forward to it – a bit of isolation and hard graft is something I sorely need right now.
Darling Molly Gray
A simple but lovely tune, playing in open G tuning on a Shackleton banjo.
Two new banjos: Part 1 – The Shackleton
Okay, so I got a bit carried away – I have received both a Shackleton banjo and a Barry Sholder fretless gourd banjo in the last week and they’re both, frankly, stunning and very different in character. I’m going to split my musings over two posts because each instrument is exceptional in its own way
Shackleton Incoming
Here’s a thing of beauty. March 2014 will go down in history as the month when British-made Banjos reappeared after a sixty year hiatus.
2013 in Review
Music This really was a tough one. So much great stuff this year – both discovered and newly released. Turisas released the quirky but still good ‘2013’. Great though it was, it was a little bit of a let down after ‘Stand Up And Fight’. In the end, though, it came down to two albums
Preparing for the year in review
So, I skipped my annual ‘year in review’ post last year as everything was a bit strange, so I need to make up for it this year. I don’t think I’m going to do a double-event as, frankly, I can’t remember that far back 🙂 This year, though, will be a mixed bag – I
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
And so it continues. I’m about 140 hours in now and ploughing through the 7 and 8 star quests, and I’ve ever started doing a bit of the online stuff. I finally got a nice checkmark on the 6 start quest section today by getting around to doing the annoying egg-fetchy-quest. It turns out it