I am no fan of Gary Glitter either, I think the man is odious and vile but back in the day we found his music funny. The more I think about it though, the more I wish I had of excluded him from the mix.

yeah, I noticed quite a points increase! Onto the next contest I guess. Cheers!

Cheers, Congratulations to you as well.
Poor ParYen got d-looted. And didn't we all have about 200 more points on our mixes?

It's official. Congrats mate!

Thanks. Top honors to you as well. I was sure you were going to take us to school on that one, I guess you made me work that much harder.
Cheers.

You nailed the contest, rightly as well! Congrats mate.

I was thinking about a Clapton - DYlan link. Clapton did an album in the early 80s called Backless. Dylan wrote the first song on the first side. Can't think of what it was called, but I am sure Dylan sang on it as well. I was at The Blackbushe Festival in England in 78, and Claton was second on the bill to Dylan and they did play together. I actually like doing this link thing, as you can see.

I was just telling someone else how I wanted the Kinkajou Guinness tin. "Just think what Kink-a-jou can do!" Or something thike that.
I've only seen that one in Ireland though.

I love the Guiness Toucan that you have! When I was a small kid many moons ago, my parents would take me to Brighton, a seaside town about sixty miles from where we lived. Down by the beach, they had this animated clock made by Guiness, and on the hour, the Guinness Toucan would appear and lots of parts moved, and it played music. (The advertising jingle was something like "Can you do what a toucan do" or something like that. A crowd would gather to see this thing all the time. One year we went down there and it was gone, and I was pretty upset at the time!

Hallyday pops up in the strangest of places.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm reading a book of the letters of Paul Bowles. He mentions one of his short stories was rejected 17 times. I gues it happens to the best of us.

I thought that once you found a publisher your troubles were over, but in many ways, that is when they really begin. That was my experience with the non-fiction book I got published anyway. I did learn a few things which I hope will help me with the novel. I have two non-fiction works planned for next year, one of which has a publisher lined up. Good luck with your project.

That's great. I've recently finished a novel and am querying agents at the moment. Rough going for the first-time novelist. But the rejections are getting more personal (not just the photo-copied form letter anymore) so that's positive.

Hello. You asked what I write? Mainly music pieces. I have one co-authored book out, "Blowing The Blues" written with and about the late British jazz and blues sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith. I am working on my first novel, which will be out hopefully by April next year.

Welcome. You're a writer? What do you write?