Tonight is the Southend show at the Palace Theatre, I assume around 7:30pm. If anyone cares I went to the at the dentist this morning. He was the FASTEST dentist in entire world. The process of getting a new filling etc. cannot have taken more than fifteen minutes. No injection, no small talk, he had […]

Grantham – Crawley Funny how some of the most trying days begin so early: this morning I was kicked off a BBC radio interview by the hotel staff so that they could use the hotel’s phone to book a cab. Turns out that the cab in question was being booked for me, at my Tour […]

I woke up this morning to see a bluish sky above Stevenage. It’s amazing how even just a little bit of sun can make all of the difference. I got on the train and sat in the first class car because I have a dandy BritRail train pass. It gives me non-stop travel for thirty […]

Strawberry Fields got stuck in my head (big time) yesterday. I was on the train from to -and there were fields of cabbages. Miles and miles, as far as I could see- or kilometers and kilometers, which never sounds as impressive- or hundreds of thousands of millimeters. I tried to get you photographic proof of […]

I tried to add some photos to my first UK post, but wordpress didn’t like them. Let’s see if they like these: The train stations here are beautiful in a horrible iron and perma-dirty kind of way. Christine, my Tour Manager, is so excited about touring the UK on the train. What a chance to […]