Well, the house is now full of boxes and mysterious items, small and large, waiting to be unpacked and disposed. It's going to be a long job... Meanwhile, I'm crossing the border into Derbyshire to spend the weekend with my cousin – but before I go, I have to quickly mark a centenary: a hundred years ago today, the great guitar picker, singer and songwriter Doc Watson was born at Deep Gap, in Watauga County, North Carolina. For a fine tribute (complete with poem), see today's Anecdotal Evidence. I have nothing to add except to offer this sample of the Doc in action, here with bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs (as ever in his buttoned-up business suit) –
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- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
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