Festival Fever

Funnily enough, this week is becoming quite amusing and enjoyable. It started off rather annoyingly for the usual reasons but as time has gone on, it is proving to be highly entertaining.

Firstly, come what may, I have my hobbies to fall back on to while away the hours. The evenings are getting longer, so I have more golfing options. I still enjoy improving my guitar playing and I have a plentiful supply of Homebrew.

In addition to that, there have been the joys of the Cheltenham festival for another year. Four days of racing fun at the greatest horse-racing meeting of them all.

I get to wrack my brains for potential winners and place a few very small-scale wagers. This includes daily phone-calls from my Dad in an effort to combine thoughts and racing opinions and form a strategy for the next day's 'assault' on the bookmakers. These phone-calls are an event in themselves as telephone silence is strictly maintained by my Dad for the most part of the year.

No luck with the gee-gees yet... "Oh Well!"

The “cérise sur le gateau” so to speak, has come via discovery of the existence of the “Couch By Couchwest” 2012 music festival (March 11-18). It is a fantastic concept and there are some really great musicians contributing to the week-long couch-fest.

I was enthused enough to submit a video of mine. It is a performance of a song I wrote, based on the music to SRV's “Cold Shot.” I was unemployed at the time and had only been playing the guitar for 18-months. Quite honestly, the video is pretty poor, but it is fun to contribute.

Other musicians are very good, by the way, so you should check them out.

http://couchbycouchwest.com/

Festival fever is fun!