And here is the cyclamen, isn't it great? I love these little pockets of colour that spring up around the University campus. Here it is nestled in beside the fallen leaves and there are clumps all over the place. It has been a long week with visiting poets and visiting examiners and suchlike but that's ok. But last night I finally managed to get a fire on and picked up my favourite guitar to just sit and strum through some tunes. One of the tunes Dan and I can play together (him on bass) is Stand By Me, which I love to sing along to and having him playing bass along with me is great - and safer than me trying to play football still. I am going to have to admit to defeat on that, it just takes too long to recover from a wee knock - I sigh at the thought, I was in A&E yesterday as part of the knock on. But having mentioned Stand By Me it would be a shame not to include it here - and I guess to say thanks to all who do - and who knows maybe one day Dan will film us playing it so I can blog it. I know Ben E. did it best but me and Davie Jack were fans of the Rock and Roll album, back in the day, and this is on it and if I close my eyes I can here the Scottish burr of us singing it back then - maybe next time I get up to Edinburgh (which should be soon) - but for now its 5 in the morning and I have a drive back to Winchester to negotiate:
