David's blog

I spent today, recording a piece a music, that a friend and myself had come up with a few years ago, we gave it the title of In the Park.  It started out just me playing a couple of chords on the guitar, namely G and D7, and then my friend joined in witht he saxophone.  I just play those two chords over and over and he plays tunes over the chords. Anyway, I have recorded it before, but thought it would be interesting to let the people on the course I am on, reocrd it.  I thought it could be a projet where everyone could have a go at getting involved, doing percussion, and singing. The first thing recorded was the me playing the guitar, and playing the piece for about 5 minutes just over and over, on a guitar which was available at the college.  There were 2 microphones in place for the guitar one directly on the guitar and the other an ambient one.  It was done in one take, the saxophone was then recorded with one mic.  It was then decided to have some percussion so a little dru

Well, the big crack in the rendering has finally been fixed after a lot of fuss and bullshit, from when they told me that the thing had been fixed to so, the latest bullshit, that the house was going to be put on some scheme and that it would have had the whole lot rendered, this I think was said, as they were annoyed or not too pleased to be harassed by the citizens advice bureau. I had kind of got one over on them, well they should not mess me about I guess and be honest in their dealing, they are suppose to be there to help people who can't afford anywhere else to live not take the fucking piss.  I am sure the rendering will break again soon enough, and that its the building that needs doing again.  Anyway, its done now and hopefully I can paint a little bit of the living room now when it dries out from the damp. Damp is what it has been today all day, it has been vile weather all day, just wind and rain from the snow in America apparently, I don't know, just have to go by

Well another year is underway, hopefully a couple of health problems I have will improve or get sorted out this year.  They have been long standing which is very worrying, I am still waiting for the results from a specialist, though not holding out much hope he will do much but I guess you never know.  The weather here is very unseasonally mild, the supermarkets hand shops have winter stuff in them understandably but there is not sign of winter as yet, its the warmest winter so far on record apparently, the weather seems to be topsy tervey, its an interesting stubject really , well not until this year anyway, there has been loads of rain though, I am glad I live up in the hills so to speak as I am away from the floods which have been bad, I saw some sand bags outside some houses today, I guess they are still worried we will get more rain and there is no sign of it ending really I guess. One of the issues that's gets me down is the benefit trap,  A  welfare trap  is a situation