Well, okay, there's been some glitches. A sudden attack of lurgee forced cancellation of our last RoG gig. Felt a tad of a cad, as this was the second I'd had to miss there this year and both at short notice. And one does strive for afflictions more glamorous than compacted earwax.

With this latter point in mind, I am pleased to report that my latest ailment is due to an accident [gasp!] with a power-tool [ooh!]. A gardening incident, if you will. Swinging the hedgeclipper down with a flourish after scything the last straggling branch, the big nasty and really rather butch oscillating cutty-bit met the fleshy second fingertip of my left hand.

There was blood.

There were curses.

There were fuckbuggering bollocking bollockses and badtempered appeals to a higher authority.

But the pain was minimal. Thanks to my guitarist's-calluses, the 4mm groove [yes, I measured it] is cut mostly into this thick pad of hard skin; the presence of which bought me a vital millisecond's extra reaction-time. Thus it is that I'm pretty confident I'm not about to have to develop a new left-hand style quite yet, trigger-finger notwithstanding. The flow of blood has abated and it's all starting to close up nicely. Tetanus-poisoning has been virtually ruled-out.

So it is then that our Myface page has been duly tartified at last and I've found inclination to post up some of the mastered songs from the ceedee. There's a comfort in temporary incapacity: a holiday from the day-to-day responsibilities of guilt-soaked idleness.

Ade

As Basil Brown, Ade blogs about various issues; these essays and rants may be found thusly thus:

Smoke Alarm :- Everything's shit- Official! The outraged rantings of a former Labour supporter shouting at the i-player. Themes and content unsuitable for beanies.

Streetlights :- Hot streetlight action!

Semaphore Signals :- Boy's Own fun including A trainspotter's guide to women. Themes and content unsuitable for wimmins.

Ask Basil :- We are informed that he's rather run out of puff on this one, as a result of his recently acquired lifetime Google Ad-Sense ban for alleged click-fraud [and on entirely trumped-up charges, he adds unconvincingly], but should you wish to test his mettle as an Agony Uncle, the answers are here. If not here, then in Wikipedia. Or somewhere else on the internet.