Month: July 2026

Day 2714 Tuesday July 7th 2026 Winchester Crikey, another week of extreme heatness – it’s too hot to do ANYTHING! But enough moaning…Don Lavelle’s carrying on with his latest painting just up from the Buttercross – there’s a girl singing there so that’s out…I glance to the alley and there’s some tape across the other side – The Square is… Read more →

Day 2713 Sunday July 5th 2026 Winchester Another hot day so definitely no jacket required in The Square. I meet some nice people, three of which bought a £10 CD – a profit of £27, so that makes them extra nice! I meet a couple from Florence. They’re English but have lived there since COVID. The man (who weirdly enough… Read more →

Day 2712 Saturday July 4th 2026 Winchester Don Lavelle is up and about, looking like he’s nearing the end of a painting of the sidestreet opposite the Nat West Bank. ‘Now Marvin, you’re a technical guy, what if you made a three dimensional graph of all your busking sessions? What time of day, where you set up, the weather, how… Read more →

Day 2711 Wednesday July 1st 2026 Winchester Down at the same spot as yesterday. In fact, I was here this morning because last week I bought some lilies and despite what the woman said, they turned out to be aroma-less. So I came in to complain – there was a different woman there today – and apparently I was given… Read more →

Day 2710 Tuesday June 30th 2026 Winchester A slow start down at the vacant flower seller’s spot…then fiver pops in…then another one. Yippee! This is from a woman from Finland who’d (obviously) not seen me before. Then a woman who’d been clapping to the odd tune on the bench opposite, comes over and hands me a tenner – saying ‘Oh,… Read more →