You spin me right 'round baby....

Well after years of boating with nothing stuck round my prop so seriously as to make me have to stop and weed it out from the hatch, I get 2 incidents within a couple of weeks....the last one was my fault - my back rope went into the prop...DOH!

....and earlier in the month I became closely acquainted with this keepnet...or what had been a keepnet.

Random hacking with a sharp knife did the trick eventually, though the metal parts took some time!

Video Of My New Band's Very First Public Performance at The Middlewich Boat and Folk Fest 2009

And this song's called "HumanKind"...

My band playing at the Boat & Folk Festival!

Middlewich 2009, in the acoustic tent, watch waht is also this bands first ever gig playing "HumanKind" here

Middlewich Boat and Folk Festival

I've been neglecting this blog mainly because of the increase in the amount of time my musical career is now consuming. Well I can combine my boating and musical life this month because of my appearance at one of boating and music's foremost summer events...

The Middlewich Boat and Boat Festival is in the top Ten music festivals in Britain (The Guardian) and is possibly the most family-friendly one as it has many other things going on besides the music including craft stalls, historic boats, boat horses, face-painting, floating gardens and so much more….see http://midfest.org.uk/mfab to give you some idea or you can see some piccies I took at last years event here.

I’ve been going to the festival as a punter on and off for many years and am really chuffed to bits to be playing for the first time this year. The schedule is as follows…


Midddlewich Boat & Folk Festival Appearances

Friday 19th June 8PM - Acoustic Tent, Main Field
Saturday 20 June 1 PM – Kings Lock, Lewin Street
Saturday 20 June 6 PM - Acoustic Tent, Main Field

My music website is here.


In addition;
Emma Burgess and Simon Taylor from the band may be playing with me at some or all of these shows…..stay tuned.
I may also put in an appearance in the open sessions at the White Horse on Sunday the 21st.

Be folk’n there!

J xxx

Feeling Drained ?

I don't know if this is by accident or design....but it's interesting to look at;

and yet more snow!

What a great winter we're having!

S N O W !

...and no it's not cold in winter.

Christmas Walk

Christmas usually means some walks in the familiar territory of my home village of Tarvin in Cheshire. The so-called “Roman Bridges” are an essential part of this, though in spite of being a long way from the boat, I am still strangely drawn towards the canal, this time the Shropshire Union in Waverton.

Frosty The Snowman...

The effects of a frozen mist being gently blown across the canal.

It's been a while and as you can see by the foliage this is a shot from a few months ago but it's the gorgeous steam boat Emily Anne

New Bike

A boat without a bike is like a spaceship without a landing pod.

My old bike is somewhere in the bottom of the canal near Wheelock if anyone fancies their chances with a grappling hook!

Rain is good for the 'Garden'...