Tom Paxton

Tom Paxton in concert at Birmingham Town Hall - just fantastic!

I know he's been singing since I was in junior school, but he's still got it. A great night (Robin Bullock was - as ever - a fantastic guitar, mandolin, bouzouki (?) accompanist) but the highlight for me was the final song: a genuinely acoustic rendering of The Parting Glass (not bad in an auditorium that seats 1086!).

I continue to be impressed by the songs, the performance, the talent  - AND I'm on his last DVD!

Computers ...

I work at home quite a lot in the room I call my 'study' (actually the smallest bedroom in the house). I have a wifi/wired network with NAS, network printer, etc., etc. Just moved to fibre-optic broadband (so far from the telephone exchange that copper can't give me any real speed) and now have most of those transition issues beaten.

So (glutton for punishment), I've moved to my 'new' PC - really a refurbished Dell that I've been running in parallel with the old Acer desktop. It's only when you finally do this that you realise what still needs to be done ...

What fun!