Day 268 Friday August 10th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 2:47-4:08pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 4:20-5:30pm A day with some pleasant and some not so pleasant moments. Down at the far end I have a chat with Delia. I say she’s wearing a nice dress – ‘Oh this? I’ve had it most of my life. It had… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 266
Diary Of A Busker Day 266 Sunday, August 5th 2012 Stockbridge, Trout ‘n’ About, Stockbridge High Street, Time: 10:50am-12:35pmA break from Winchester! I venture a few miles west to honour an engagement booked awhile ago. It’s Trout ‘n’ About, a local food/arts and crafts/music fair and one of the people in charge is Tania, who is also the person who… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 264
Diary Of A Busker Day 264 Friday August 3rd 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:35-2:35pm, 2. Opposite Bellis, Time: 4:35-6:18pmA couple of busking students at The Buttercross have hijacked the Tesco slogan for their sign; STUDENTS – EVERY LITTLE HELPS, and down at the crossroads, it’s Guy’s Threepenny Bit folk franchise, five of them today. So I… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 257
Diary Of A Busker Day 257 Tuesday July 10th 2012 Reading, Broad Street 1. Opposite Mobile Phone and Handbag Store, Time: 10:25-10:31am, 2. Opposite Anne Summers, Time: 10:40-11:05am, 1:45-3:13pm, 3. Outside John Lewis, Time: 4-5:25pm Back in Reading for my penultimate acupuncture appointment, my day gets off to an annoying start. As I’ve got my guitar on my lap for… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 256
Diary Of A Busker Day 256 Saturday July 7th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:29-3:31pm, 2. Fire Exit – Debenhams, Time: 3:42-4:47pm, 3. Opposite Bellis, Time: 5:07-5:21pm It’s the first day of two, of the annual Winchester event, the Hat Fair, the (so-called) “celebration” of street theatre,” so there are a lot of people about, a lot… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 255
Diary Of A Busker Day 255 Thursday July 5th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:56-2:57pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 3:27-4:53pm, 3. Opposite Bellis, Time: 5:20-6:35pm It’s been raining all week so I haven’t been out busking but it’s cleared up today and needs must. My first customer is a tall woman, not quite a regular, in that… Read more →