Category: Busking

Day 2652 Sunday February 1st 2026 Winchester Once again, a quick dash between showers and the top spot’s free. The temperature is fine as there’s no wind…unfortunately, it starts to drizzle very slightly a few minutes after I start up. Nothing too worrying…it stops briefly but then starts again. I soldiered on! Around the half hour mark an amazing thing… Read more →

Day 2651 Saturday January 31st 2026 Winchester Out again in a break in the rain – it’s supposed to start up again around 3 o’clock. Gareth is hanging around the top spot. I didn’t speak to him as he usually chats for ages – I made a dash round the back of the monument before he saw me(!) and headed… Read more →

Day 2650 Friday January 30th 2026 Winchester It’s meant to rain around 3 o’clock so I made a quick dash to town to do an hour before the deluge. There’s a bloke at the top spot but no one anywhere else…I set up at Nando’s with all the market stalls everywhere. No donations for twenty minutes then a fiver from… Read more →

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 →