Blog Bog
Just a gentle warning that I really don’t censor or edit myself very hard, I just put things straight from the brain into blobs of thought and leave it at that. You’re welcome to not read it. It’s more for myself than for anyone else, unless I pointed it out to someone as maybe worthy of reading, but that doesn’t happen very often, really.
Ch-ch-changes
Someone asked me if I could remember my first time visiting the Wine Cellar, and I genuinely couldn’t. There were a few contenders for those first gigs, but it’s all a bit of a blur. I remember so many shows, so many special shows of people who are now no longer there, or who are…
“So, where are you from?”
There’s only one correct answer to the question “So, where are you from?” or the subsequent “No, where are you REALLY from?” Seeing how it comes across, we don’t usually use it, but really that response should be: “That’s none of your business!”
Gribblehirst Market, July 21
We had the best day at the market at Gribblehirst Community Hub – we love being there anyway, but market days are extra…
Fees for everything, less with your own shop
I’ve been chipping away on *this*, my new website and its shop over the last few months, usually during our Tuesday nightly Tāmaki Makaurau Open Music Hub meetings, which has been truly a heaven-sent of a space for me to focus on creative work that I otherwise simply don’t get done when left to my…
Knitting, Of Course
Just a matter of time before I’d try the whole knitting thing, argh! I say “argh” because when I start a thing, I usually go hard, and that’s what I’m doing here. But hear me out!
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Show Some Love ❤️
If you feel what I do is helpful in some sort of way, and do want to show that, I’ve set up this button for you to buy me a cup of coffee, or a bag of flour, or some seedlings for my garden, or a new computer game, or whatever! Take the money and invest it in something else kind of cool for everyone, who knows?