Strong Winds And Weak Trees

Check your chosen spots for overnighting when the wind is blowing strong.

Dirty Old Town

My First attempt At Playing At Dirty Old Town On A Harmonica Hohner Special 20 progressive All Photos © Brick to rubber

Sat in a Lay by with the fire on, outside its cold had some hailstone some very high winds and a touch of snow in the last 2 hours. So just playing around with a harmonica and managed to play something like Dirty old town not sure if the notes are right but like Eric Morecambe once said to Andre Previn am playing all the right not but not necessarily in the right order

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year!

Christmas and the pending new year is upon us all again the pubs are going to be full of drunks the shops full of drunks the roads full of drunks.
In fact everywhere full of drunks some pretending to be having a good time and trying there best to impress others some will get it right and the people around them will enjoy the company and yes have a good time.Others sadly will get it wrong and and piss off everybody within half a mile of their loud obnoxious often sexist behaviour and remarks they are like caveman/cave woman beating their puffed up chests just looking for a confrontation in order to mark their territory.
Most end up marking there territory by puking up and pissing all over the place Some will go a stage further to get the look at me attention they crave and beat the living daylights out of some innocent and usely a smaller individual that just happens to be in the wrong place. Thankfully the majority of the people that are out will be making the most of the free time with no pressure of work for a few days spending quality time with the children having family and friends around.Celebrating Christmas and the new year for what it stands for  this is something most people look forwards to and makes the rest of the year worth all the hard work and hassle. On the other side of the coin there are people like myself young and old that do not cope well over the festive season  for whatever reasons please give them a thought and the space to be in their own comfort zone. The one thing that really saddens me is
the heartache and life changing events(unnecessary violence, accident's, and deaths) that will occur of the next few weeks around the world caused by people having a good time will make any terrorist attack that might occur small by comparison.
 enough said
 Happy Christmas And New Year.

Happiness is having Nothing and needing nothing.

Not moved out of my parking spot for 2 days weathers not up to much and i did not fancy walking around the shops again so just stayed put.
I have enough to do in the van anyway.
Messing around on Adobe Premiere Elements 2018 takes up a lot of time and also takes a lot of battery power i get about 3 hours off the two battery's if i just work on two projects.
That is providing i don't dig to deep into the Adobe program trying all the tricks its times like this with the dark nights that i would like to be on a site with hook up like anything else in life is swings and roundabouts. I have seen,done and learnt more in the last few years than in the whole of my past  life. You would be surprised how little we need to live comfortably am not talking money wise its all the materialistic things we all seem to desire or the comfort items we wont surround ourselves with i was as guilty as everyone else.
The Heart Attack was a major factor in my decision to change the way i lived everything i owned became just unnecessary objects to which i now had no affections for.
I wanted life and a new one at that a new me in my new life am only ten years old ( had heart attack 10 years ago) i see people in a different light now i want to learn about them I also have an interest in the world we live in and how things work.
Would i go back to my old life style if i had the chance? all the motorbikes, fishing tackle. workshop, guitars, amps recording studio, cars, friends, and bricks and mortar could not tempt me back.


Happiness is having nothing and needing nothing so go out and get some.

Made My Day Meeting Mr Martin Dorey

While out shopping the other day i was was lucky enough to get the chance to talk to a chap with the name Martin Dorey.
You might remember the TV program One Man And His Camper Van well Martin Dorey was the star of the show. Martin has also written a few books  runs a very informative blog and has a dot.com site as well. I enjoyed talking to this very polite,cheerful and educated man There is a Link to Martins Blog Below  campervanliving . I wish him good luck with his next adventure and hope to meet him again.

One Man And His Campervan Martin Dorey, campervan lover and passionate foodie, journeys around Britain in his 1970s classic campervan, on the ultimate escapist adventure. Over ten episodes Martin travels to different regions in the UK - Devon, New Forest, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Angus, Trossachs, the Lakes and Pembrokeshire. Along the way he meets growers, fisherman, farmers, larger-than-life local experts and fellow holiday makers. Martin cooks for his new-found friends, creating local dishes from his small campervan kitchen. These feasts unfold wherever Martin camps up, in some truly stunning settings: on Britain's beaches, in woodlands, on cliff tops and around intimate campfires. Martin unearths our freshest seasonal food, tasting his way around Britain on this campervan food adventure.

Martin Dorey,s Blog

Stagg Patch Leads Fix

Got some patch leads for my guitar foot pedals sold by stagg only to find they do not click into place when put into the pedal sockets. This Video show an easy fix to rectify this.

St Nectans Glen Trethevy Tintagel

St Nectan's Glen woodlands and waterfalls at Trethevy Tintagel PL34 0BG has been called one of the most sacred sites in Britain; it is certainly a nice place for a long day out  At the top of the glen are a series of three waterfalls below the site of a hermitage established by the 6th century Celtic saint Nectan. The hermitage and waterfalls can only be reached on foot after a mile long walk beside the River Trevillet looks more like a Stream than a river. The walk is easyish with one or two spots that could be a bit testing to the more elderly plus it does involve a walk from any of the car parks
Personally this place was not for me the walk back to Tintagel along the coastline was harder but much more enjoyable.