Too busy living to blog or watch TV, plus a teeny bit about Solfest 2010

Hello Good People who evidently still read this blog… I keep trying to give up this blog for good but it’s up there in cyberspace without me, just like the millions of  photographs of teenagers on Facebook,  who may at some time, rue the day they allowed photos of, and  information about themselves, to be [...]

From the Sixties to the End of the Noughties..did it match up to expectations?

Hello Good People who read this blog I am listening to music over the headphones while I write this, to keep me focussed and calm,so I might as well start by sharing what I am listening to. Some English sixties folk, Sandy Denny with an acoustic home recorded demo version of Who Knows Where the [...]

AWOL

Hello Good People who read this blog, I just wanted to say that I am sorry I haven’t managed to put my little radio prog up here yet. It means a few hours work putting it up on youtube with photos and captions and I am just too busy to do it at the mo. [...]

The Big Green Dispersion and Solfest 2009

Hello Good People who read this blog , (to anyone who read my Guilfest post, I have just added a video clip of Alice Armstrong at the end of it) Just a note to say  that I just got an email from my son telling me that “The Big Green Gathering“, probably the official festival [...]

It’s the same old story…stormtroopers in the street (and I don’t mean the Star Wars variety)

Hello Good People who read this blog… (I have just realised that I’ve been taken off the Google search engine..a bit weird…anyone know why?) I thought I’d post a quickie about the police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died as a result. Even though now I know for sure that my emails are copied and [...]

“Political Intelligence” versus sitting around to watch the world end.

Hello Good People who read this blog I make no apologies for this entry being political.  This is THE most important time to think about politics. I went on the Put People First G20 March on Saturday. I had such a great time. I joined the Oxfam group rather than march alone. I have done [...]

Peaceful Protest (we hope) G20 London

This morning it’s time to prove hippies still want to change the world. “On 28th March thousands will march through London as part of a global campaign to challenge the G20, ahead of their 2nd April summit on the global financial crisis. Even before the banking collapse, the world suffered poverty, inequality and the threat [...]

Green Slimy Politicians, clashing tour dates and Psychedelic Cinderella

Hello once again Good People Who Still Read This Blog Hawkwind -”Space is Deep” a great song and a great little film (apologies for environmentally unfriendly rockets but they are cool) How are you all? If there is a name for a really terrible blogger who has deserted their dedicated readers like an auntie they [...]

Who killed the hippies?

Footage of a clamp-down on freedom, peace and anti-materialism This blog requires some audience participation from you. If you want to understand some of the things I will be writing about in future posts please watch and compare the following clips. It is a history that needs to be told and has been suppressed. Footage [...]