Here we are in a new year, then... lots has happened since last time I blogged, obviously! Christmas went well, my brother John visited and we had the festivities in our house, with Ali. Had lots of nice presents, though I haven't played with any of them much. That's because we came to Southend for New Year and have been staying with my parents (and John). I didn't bring many presents with me (left Guitar Hero 2 behind).

Hovis (our hamster) made it to Christmas but was gradually getting more and more decrepit. He died on 28th, Rob found him all curled up in his house, as cute as ever. He's buried in the back garden now. He lived with us for 2 years and 4 months, which is a good age for a hamster. I'll miss him. He loved climbing, and used to go up to the top of his three-storey cage every night and inexplicably turn round and round inside the little plastic house up there. He was funny.

On that depressing note I may end for now. I could say that I'll try and blog more what with it being a new year and everything, but I'm sure I say that every year and it doesn't happen. I don't think many people read this anyway. But for those of you who do, I hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.

I leave you with one of the highlights of Jools Holland's Hootenanny this year - Seasick Steve and his three stringed guitar. I would have linked to Adrian Edmondson's excellent rendition of 'Anarchy in the UK', where he does a trumpet solo having never played the trumpet before, but no-one has put that on YouTube!

And if anyone cares, PopPopMan.co.uk is now completely up to date. :)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:58 AM