Diary Of A Busker Day 223 Friday April 13th 2012 Winchester High Street Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:40-5:14pmThere are lots of parents and children out today. I’m watched by three girls, aged 3 to 6, I reckon, for twenty minutes. They’re all eating ice-creams they’ve got from the ice-cream guy who’s right across from me. The smallest has it all running… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 222
Diary Of A Busker Day 222 Wednesday April 11th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite British Heart Foundation, Time: 1:45-3:15pm, 2. Opposite O2, Time: 3:42-4:08pmEntering the High Street, I pass a bagpiper busker outside Barclays Bank. I’ve seen him a couple of other times over the past year and I think it’s good to hear something unusual here, but he… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 221
Diary Of A Busker Day 221 Saturday April 7th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Reflex – just closed down, Time: 1:23-2:38pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:55-3:55pmI’m again banished to the outer reaches but I’m fortunate to receive a donation right at the start, from Carol, my hard-of-hearing regular from The North. I thank her. ‘How are you, pet?’ ‘I’m… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 220
Diary Of A Busker Day 220 Friday April 6th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 12:55-2pm, 2. Opposite Phase Eight, Time: 3:45-5:45pm This is the first day of the Easter holiday and there certainly are a lot of people about. Rockin’ Rob is just across from The Buttercross, talking to Frank…so it’s down the street I go, and… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 219
Diary Of A Busker Day 219 Wednesday April 4th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite British Heart Foundation, Time: 1:40-2:25pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:40-3:16pm, 3. Opposite Phase Eight, Time: 3:40-4:20pmDown near The Buttercross, I walk by the latest addition to the roster of Winchester buskers – schoolgirl Constance, known as Cossie, however, being in a somewhat uncommunicative mood today,… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 218
Diary Of A Busker Day 218 2012 Monday April 2nd Winchester High Street Opposite Vodafone, Time: 3:50-6:15pmI haven’t been playing five minutes when I get my first interruption; a man, mid 60s, wearing a hat a bit small for his head comes up, he has a Scottish accent. ‘Hey! Ah know Helen Shapiro, y’know!’ ‘Really?’ ‘Yeah. And Cliff Richard –… Read more →