Diary Of A Busker Day 327 Thursday February 14th 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 1:10-2:42pm 2. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 2:55-3:26pm For once it’s warmed up a bit. For once I’m not dreading the prospect of playing, the pain increasing with every song and every minute! A short woman about my age (or old enough to know better)… Read more →
Tag: Busking
Diary Of A Busker Day 326
Diary Of A Busker Day 326 Friday February 8th 2013 Winchester High Street, opposite Vodafone. Time: 1:30-2:45pm Another bitterly cold day. I have a chat with Janet halfway through. I hadn’t seen her since well before Christmas and was fearing the worst for her, along with some of my other regulars I haven’t seen, although at 63, Janet’s one of… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 325
Diary Of A Busker Day 325 Wednesday February 6th 2013 Winchester High Street, opposite Vodafone. Time: 1:04-1:33pm, 4:20-4:50pm Another very cold day; the wind, as usual, but I have an appointment to keep with two college girls, Lucinda and Siobhan, who are travelling from Brighton and Bournemouth, respectively, to interview me for a project they’re doing about busking. I am… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 323
Diary Of A Busker Day 323 Saturday February 2nd 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 3:50-4:48pm 2. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 5:30-6:10pm A(nother) very cold day, of which I’d already got a taste this morning, watching the son an heir’s team lose (again) in a match at their training ground at Worthy Down. I managed just two minutes shy… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 322
Diary Of A Busker Day 322 Friday February 1st 2013 Winchester High Street, opposite Vodafone. Time: 1:13-2:48pm As I’m approaching the pitch, Dave – he of the “Dangerous” prefix, and his brother – of the Batman theme tune fixation, appear. Dangerous asks if I can save his “favourite” (hums The Third Man) for when he comes back in half an… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 321
Diary Of A Busker Day 321 Thursday January 31st 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 12:54-2:30pm 2. Opposite Oxfam. Time: 3:32-5pm My polite/always complimentary, but now opera-busker Demelza Stafford groupie, Ian, turns up and stands to my left. When I finish the song I’m playing, I turn on him – ‘Ah, Ian. I saw you yesterday. You’re now… Read more →