Folk That!

Folk night last night, 4 turned up me, two guitars and a set of pipes. We were missing the usual ringleaders so it gave us all a chance to strut our stuff a bit more than usual until.

They arrived a table load of people, obviously out for a good time, but their idea of a good time wasn't listening to Reels or songs that go slower than 120 BPM. So they talked. Our idea of a good night is listening to reels and songs that go a lot slower than 120BPM So we tried to keep on playing. What fun, as we were short in numbers our volume wasn't that great so despite sitting next to the guitar, I had difficulty hearing it and playing along.

As we weren't playing songs they knew they started to sing at the top of their voice over our jig or whatever. I was getting annoyed and I was trying not to let it get to me, another attack of nerves like Saturday night wouldn't help me at all, so I was concentrating, I tend not to smile when concentrating and they saw this and commented once, twice, several times which made me need to concentrate harder and smile less! Unfortunately it was too much for one of our company who left very early. And so a Trio of guitar, uke and pipes remained.

Eventually they left thank goodness and we continued what turned into a good evening with various waifs and strays appearing later on. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and sang a lot more than usual I even had a pint of Lager, my first in 2 months!

Any suggestions for new songs to cover/ rewrite are welcomed, anything to spice up my playing habits.

We're having a heatwave...

Jeezo, I'm just back from shopping with Dad and it's 23 deg outside, that's warmer than it's been for ages. I'll ask my sister if she's sent the weather over from her place mind thunder again tonight looks more likely. Will I go to the pub tonight? I've still got good savings and I haven't been out since Monday which is completely unlike me. Ach the fresh orange might just kill this tickly cough I've got at the mo.

Well, I got my bank statement today and it seems I haven't received any money since July. Apart from my boss coming around and mentioning the possibilty of it I've got no warning either. Ain't my company great, I've been off ill for 9 months and apart from getting letters telling me my boss was coming round on the morning of the visit, I have received no info at all. They haven't replied to my letters asking for details, I haven't received the forms necessary to apply for Statutary sick pay now that it appears that my company sick pay is finished. It's a good thing I'm medicated for depression and anxiety, if I wasn't already, I'm damn sure I would be now. Perhaps they've followed through with the unspoken threat to terminate my contract without telling me? Either way, I'm associated with a wonderful company which obviously cares about the welfare of its employees and ex employees. I worry about persecution and paranoia, but this is one case that I hope it's true, I would hate anyone else to go through the same shit that I am.