My New Toy

 It's funny how time drags when you're waiting for something either to happen or to come through the post, in this case, it's the latter.
I ordered a cigar box 3 string guitar from the very well known, chicken bone john who plays makes and builds some wonderful instruments and has an online shop with everything to do with this type of instrument.chickenbonejohn.

My New Toy made by Chicken Bone John

Like a lot of people I order quite a lot from  Amazon which in a lot of cases arrives next day but ordering from small independent one-man bands which i was one of for a good few years its near on impossible to organize next day delivery I think this is down to the smaller amount of parcels that we post out in the working week and not having the workforce behind you if we are sending out  small items that can go first class by royal mail  we just might be lucky.
When you hand over your money the mental clock in your head starts counting down the hours and days, after three days your starting to think its on its way after five days your bitting your nails down to the quick. Then you start checking the order to make sure you have given them your address correctly now its time to go through your e-mails and go over the order time and time again yes were all guilty of this.
Remember the days when we got things from the likes of Kays Catalogue or ordered an item from a shop a few miles from your home on free delivery, we would wait weeks for something to turn up and not give it a second thought.
So has the likes of Amazon, Pc world and Argos to name a few turned us all into impatient must have it now little creatures or is it the thought of handing over your money in one hand and not receiving something back in the other one straight away.

UPDATE
Tuesday was my birthday and at five o'clock i got a message to let me know my parcel was now in the hands of the delivery company.
Wednesday morning i was checking to see where my parcel was using the tracking number along with the UPS app not even finished putting the 25 digit tracking number when a UPS delivery van pulled up in front of my van.
No way it could be for me i thought, how wrong i was i,m now the proud owner of the cigar box guitar in the picture above just have to learn to play it now.

Nothing Much going on.

Another hot and bright Sunday so it's up to the car boot to sell a bit more stuff at least that's what I'm hoping to do.
I am really into this Cigar box guitar it does make learning a pleasure because of the open tuning its easy to play a bit of rhythm and sound like a rock star its much easier than the six string I would imagine in the eyes of a seasoned guitarist its cheating lets be honest we all want to be able to play something and if the three string guitar is the easiest way for people to get into music then for one am all for it.
Playing a musical instrument is something that has eluded me for near on fifty years now and finding out three years ago I could hold a tune on the harmonica has rekindled my determination to learn and play at least two types of instrument.

I would love to own this pair

I will just have to settle for this one instead.

Just getting over the bout of sunstroke that affected me over the last nine days need to be a bit more careful now I really not want to go through that again.
While on the beach Sunday evening the RNLI and coastguards were moving people off a part of the beach, apparently an object had been uncovered which might have been a bomb the bomb squad were on the way from Plymouth.
Update re the Bomb Squad at summer lease beach it turns out that it was just a piece of pipe better safe than sorry