I just finished my 4th gig of the week and I’m on the way to my 5th!
Over the course of my first set in the last pub, a lad kept coming up and feeding £20 notes through the strings and sound hole in my guitar! I shook them out and counted them there, it’s £160 in tips🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Our maternal Grandma (aka Grandma Seaside), before she married Grandpa, had a boyfriend called Jimmy, who was a soldier & amateur artist. His travelling sketchbook from 1934 (a gift to him from Grandma) is such a lovely insight into the era. Thread:
In a pub in Westport last night and a man with a Mayo jersey came over. We started chatting. "Up Mayo," I said to him. He reached for his Mayo jersey and pulled it up to reveal a second Mayo jersey underneath.....