Author: Marvin

Day 2649 Thursday January 29th 2026 Winchester There’s bloke singing at the top spot and that girl from yesterday outside M&S. Too windy in The Square so it’s one of my old haunts, the spot opposite The Body Shop in The Pentice. Coinage is slow, in fact non-existent for more than half an hour. I was starting to think I… Read more →

Day 2648 Wednesday January 28th 2026 Winchester There’s a young white girl singer at the Buttercross and a slightly older and very loud black guy singing near M&S which means I can’t set up anywhere in the high street so it’ll have to be up at The Square, which is pretty well deserted. A woman donates, I thank her and… Read more →

Day 2647 Tuesday January 27th 2026 Winchester On the way in I stopped off at the bike shop around the corner from Sainsbury’s and got the bloke to do an adjustment on the front brake which hadn’t been working properly for a few weeks – there was too much slack in the cable – it turned out to be a… Read more →

Day 2646 Saturday January 24th 2026 Winchester Kev’s slouching near the Buttercross, there’s a bit of wind in The Square and the Nando’s sandwich board is obstructing the Nando’s spot so I go up the road a bit and set up at the crossorads (aka in front of Starbucks)…and I immediately regret it because it’s like a gale there. I… Read more →

Day 2645 Friday January 23rd 2026 Winchester It’s 8 degrees and a VERY windy day. The Buttercross is taken and Kev’s slouched in his deckchair near Marks & Spencer so the crossroads is where I’m headed. I don’t even get through the first verse of La Vie En Rose before a huge gust of wind blows over my album, which… Read more →

Day 2644 Tuesday January 20th 2026 Winchester Well, I knew it was windy as I practically had to pedal going downhill into town but I didn’t worry about it too much because when I get into the high street, it’s often quite calm. Not today, though. Down at Nando’s it WAS windy and it didn’t let up the whole time… Read more →