Doom and Gloom?

Is it really just because the media seem to be preoccupied with doom and gloom these days, that I sometimes despair with the direction we are all going? Is it true, or acceptable, that a 13 year old boy is now a father, having concieved the child when he was 12?! The mother of the child is 15 and unsure if the boy is the father as she had several other young, potential sires. The parents are separated and squabbling over who will get the most money for their stories. The boy, when asked how he proposed to financially support his child, asked, "What's financially?"

When I was 12, I was out with my brothers, collecting conkers, falling off our bikes, or furtively smoking dog ends. Girls weren't fit to join in these activities - let alone be bedded by any of us. I didn't hold a girl's hand until I was 15 and that wasn't for very long!

Maybe I'm old fashioned.

Rainy Day Picture

This is a short excerpt from the children's DVD made by Jeff Bullock and S J Smyth, in the USA. He contacted me to ask if he could use my piece of music 'Celtic Queen'. Wrote this and played it on my Yamaha keyboard.

My Bikes

Time to get up to date on my two wheeled transport. Way back on this blog, I was toying with the idea of a Triumph - which has now become a reality. A beautiful Bonneville now sits in the garage along with her stablemate, a Yamaha MT-03 - which is the little sister of that big beast I had before, the MT-01!

These two machines do all I need as far as bikes go. The Bonneville is bike to enjoy showing of to people and rides beautifully. It takes me back to the old days of biking, has leather panniers, real mud guards, comfortable seat and loads of chrome to polish! All this but with modern electronics, fuelling and reliability. The Yamaha is a fun workhorse, handles so well and does everything asked of it.

So there you have it. All that is needed now is the sunshine, dry and open roads - and good places at the roadside that serve fine bacon rolls where I can sit for a while and watch the world go by!

Celtic Queen

Ages since I posted here - and ages since I posted my piece of music, Celtic Queen, n the archive.org web site. Well, amazingly, I was contacted by the site administrator,who told me someone wanted to use the music. I responded to the email address provided; and sure enough, someone in th USA, who animates his partner's art work and produces children's videos, wanted to use it s a sound track. That was fine by me. Very flattering!
All I get is a credit in the titles but that's fine by me too. You can see a short excerpt on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8600GiZOSM
Apart from that, I am still indulging in my Winter hibernation - and awaiting the first signs of Spring. Then I shall be able to go out on my bikes (more of them later) and see what 2009 has in store for me. I hope it will be better than last year. Somehow I think it will be. I hope so.