It's been a while since publishing my first novel, The Tramp, and music CD, The Tramp: The Music of Robert Aitken, in 2017, yet I've not dawdled that much, really ... I'm finishing up a full length, 460-odd page psychological thriller waiting for a final read through, plus another tale set in the 10th century [...]
The Tramp
A long time between drinks
onI haven't spoken for a while. Busy times at work, rest and play. Being a sole operator, there are no knock on / knock off times, just a need to rationalise each project and work to the demands of processes and deadlines. That hasn't stopped me from working on renovation and reparation projects at home. [...]
A long distance wedding performance.
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… or Pandemic Schmandemic#2 This post follows Pandemic Schmandemic#1 (check the link if you want to know what happened before). Once upon a time several decades ago, my sister told me of an early childhood memory of me playing the theme tune to a children’s television show on my brother’s guitar (Pat had set it [...]
The soundtrack to Barbara’s walk down the aisle
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… a long distance wedding performance, continued #5 … OR PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC#7 Another song I'd never heard of. The bride-to-be asked for me to perform 'A Thousand Years' while she made her way from the back of the room to the groom and celebrant. My quip about The Proclaimers's 'I'm Gonna Be' (500 Miles) morphed [...]
Foo who?
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… a long distance wedding performance, continued #4 … OR PANDEMIC SCHMANDEMIC#6 'Of course,' I responded. 'Everyone's heard of the Foo Fighters.' However, naming one of their songs with any confidence was doubtful, although the name Dave Grohl has cropped up periodically over the years. Being the multi-instrumentalist past-member of Nirvana (and a rather charismatic [...]
Tiger Dreaming 