Tag: Yellow Bird

Diary Of A Busker ~ Day 80

Diary Of A Busker Day 80 Wednesday April 13th Winchester High Street (1. opposite WH Smiths, Time: 3:25-5:15pm, 2. opposite Clinton Cards, Time: 5:43-6:20pm.) Got set up and started with Yellow Bird – hadn’t been playing a minute when a young guy comes over – “Can we film you for the local news?” “Umm… yeah, sure.” I often see people… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker ~ Day 79

Diary Of A Busker Day 79 Tuesday April 12th Winchester High Street (1. corner of Marks And Spencer, Time: 2:51-4:35pm, 2. opposite WH Smiths, Time: 5:03-6:20pm.) It’s a slow start with not more than a meagre £2 in the bucket for twenty minutes of playing. But what’s this I see – a big figure materialising from the gloom of the… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker ~ Day 78

Diary Of A Busker Day 78 Saturday April 9th Winchester High Street (1. corner of Marks And Spencer, Time: 2:21-3:42pm, 2. opposite WH Smiths, Time: 3:50-5:42pm.) I don’t usually play on Saturdays due to all the buskers that turn up, alot of them from out of town. There are sometimes as many as ten, all pretty well in place by… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker ~ Day 74

Diary Of A Busker Day 74 Tuesday April 5th Winchester High Street (1. opposite Clarks, Time: 2:28-4:43pm, 2. corner of Marks And Spencer, Time: 5:20-6:05pm.)     Like yesterday, it’s cold and although it isn’t raining, it has been and there’s a grey sky and the atmosphere has the moisture hanging in it which makes it difficult for playing so –… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker ~ Day 71

Diary Of A Busker Day 71 Thursday March 31st Winchester High Street (corner of Marks And Spencer, Time: 2:34-5:50pm)     A session of admiral length down at the noisy corner – no Bertie the flowerman, only his young helper – “THREE FOR A PAANND!” or “numbnuts” as Bertie calls him. To the ‘happenings’, as they used to say in the old… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker ~ Day 58

Diary Of A Busker Day 58 Thursday March 10th Winchester High Street (1. corner of Marks And Spencer, Time: 12:23-1:50pm, 3-4:45pm, 2. opposite Clinton Cards, Time: 2:10-2:50pm.)       At the noisy corner again, with the whistling flowerman just across the way. As I start to play, he motions for me to turn up – I don’t often get this from people!… Read more →