Saturday 12th October

The most aptly named band in the world, awful beyond awfulness.  Soppy, soggy, drenched in sentimentality, and indeed wet, wet, wet.  And despite, or maybe because of that wretched No 1 hit ‘Love is All Around’ that just hung around, they must be awarded the harbingers of all that is wrong with music today. I mean just who bought that record?Judging from the time it spent at number 1, almost everyone.  Except me, I am proud to report.

X-factor, the voice and all of the rubbish that flows from them started started with this mid-eighties middle of the road dross.  But enough of the good news.  The weather outside is awful.  Yesterday it was so windy and cold, it really felt like Autumn had arrived.  All of a sudden all that nice sunny late September and early October warmth has been banished. Gone without a trace, and today we had the rain.  That dreek dismal dark and daunting rain that you know has settled in at least for the day if not the weekend.  All you can do is dash from shop to shop and get back inside quick as you can.  Wet, wet, wet again I am afraid.

At least we had a good summer, though so often it seems a lovely summer is paid for by a bleak winter.

We’ll see

That’s all folks, from the cheerful gang here at Happy Valley.