Diary Of A Busker Day 331 Saturday March 2nd 2013 Winchester High Street, opposite Bellis. Time: 3:58-5:18pm There’s something I can’t work out. Why do people request a song and then walk off once you start playing it? What’s the point of that? That happened twice today. The first time was just after my Theme From The Good, The Bad… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 330
Diary Of A Busker Day 330 Friday March 1st 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 1:14-2:04pm 2. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 2:39-3:09pm I’ve been playing barely three minutes before my first interruption but as it’s from Delia, who I’ve found out is still alive, I don’t mind. She asks me if I like chocolate. ‘Of course – who doesn’t?… 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 →
Diary Of A Busker Day 320
Diary Of A Busker Day 320 Wednesday January 30th 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 1:30-2pm 2. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 2:24-3:43pm I needed to go into town for a couple of hours this morning and on the way out I bumped into one of the CPSOs (the young one) who the other day, I related my unfortunate experience… Read more →