THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS A CUP OF TEA

Last night Mother and I watched the second half of Patrick Barkham's new butterfly DVD. Interestingly there was a section on migrants and vagrants, and he reiterated the belief he stated in his book 'The Butterfly Isles' that the Queen of Spain Fritillary was most likely to become the next British resident species. I am not so sure of that. There have been reports of the Large Tortoiseshell for some years on the Isle of Wight, and it has been claimed that they have bred at least once at a National Trust garden in South Devon. As they were supposed to have been extinct here since the 1950s, this is pretty damn remarkable.

 

I also started reading Mick Farren's massively entertaining 'Give the Anarchist a Cigarette'. I always suspected that he and I were kindred spirits, now I think that it is even more likely. His accounts of Bohemian squalour in (not quite so) Swinging London, are not just evocative, but are funny as well. The fact that they bring us a snippet of valuable social history is an added bonus. I always have at least two books on the go, and I am also re-reading Bill Drummond's `17`, and Philip Allen's 'Moths and Memories', two books which I have always found inspirational/ As I am not firing on all four cylinders today, I shall probably retreat into one or other of these books (probably Farren) this afternoon. Books are always a good place to hide.

 

The Gonzo Track of the Day is by Edgar Broughton
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-edgar-broughton-band.html

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_17.html

 

The um, Renaissance of um... Renaissance
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/renaissance-reborn-as-40-year-old.html

 

Troy Donockley playing with the Bad Shepherds
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/folk-take-on-punk-music.html

 

A street portrait of Rick Wakeman
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/rick-wakeman-future-is-papier-mache.html

 

Bev Bevan is better than Ringo, he claims
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/im-better-than-ringo-paul-mccartney.html

 

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*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?