Tag: Albatross

Diary Of A Busker Day 478

Diary Of A Busker Day 478 Tuesday November 26th 2013 Winchester (Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:03-3:06pm). I don’t know what happened in the night but when I woke up, my hearing seemed to have got worse. Not only is there some volume loss but everything sounds different! I’m really worried about it so I phoned up to see if a nurse… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 463

Diary Of A Busker Day 463 Tuesday October 15th 2013 Winchester (1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 1:45-2:15pm, 2. The Butter Cross, Time: 2:25-4pm). Started off with a lousy half hour, which was all I could take, at the crossroads. Got only one donation – £1.20. And yet AGAIN I think – ‘How can hundreds of people walk by and only one… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 459

Diary Of A Busker Day 459 Friday October 4th 2013 Winchester (1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:38-2:38pm, 2. The Butter Cross, Time: 2:54-3:54pm, 3. Next to The Slug & Lettuce, Time: 4:08-5:38pm). When I left the house, there was a bit of drizzling which I thought might stop, however, by the time I got into town, it was more or less… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 453

Diary Of A Busker Day 453 Monday September 23rd 2013 Winchester (1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:42-2:22pm, 2. The Butter Cross, Time: 2:30-3:04pm). Coming down the street, I hear a familiar sound: a somewhat jazzy flavoured guitar, and I know who it is – my old friend Kanan, who I met, along with Chris, way back in the open-mic days. Weird… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 451

Diary Of A Busker Day 451 Friday September 20th 2013 Winchester (1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 12:40-2:17pm, 2. The Butter Cross, Time: 2:53-4:27pm, 3. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 4:50-5:50pm). A woman tells me about her friend that died. She didn’t say how he died but he was a guitarist who had to stop playing when he got arthritis – ‘his fingers became… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 447

Diary Of A Busker Day 447  Thursday September 12th 2013 Chichester (1. Opposite Marks & Spencer, North Street, Time: 12:40-2:20pm, 2. Outside HSBC bank, The Cross, Time: 2:50-5:30pm). The day got off to a bad start – and that was even before I started playing. The idiot who I bought the train ticket from at Winchester station yesterday put the… Read more →