Category: Busking

Day 2715 Wednesday July 8th 2026 Winchester Due to everywhere else being taken, I’m down at the same spot as yesterday…and the heat is the same, at around 29 degrees. Oh well, at least my back doesn’t hurt as much (though it does later on). Three schoolboys aged around 14, come out of the Oxfam shop and listen. At the… Read more →

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 →