Summary: The Budget…..Osborne has been holding up the red bag….which has pleased the old folk (prospective voters)….so it looks like our savings will make a bit of interest for a change. However up jumps Ed Balls with his totally negative view on the whole thing….no matter what one side does - the other will disagree with. There has been a programme on the attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne 20 years ago…I can’t remember this can you?...apparently her car was blocked by another on the Mall and her bodyguard got out and was shot three times….he has received an award for his bravery…the guy tried to drag Anne out of the car….what was I doing 20 years ago? There is a programme called “The Big Re-Union” where boy and girl bands are reforming to go back on the road…it’s quite interesting but I think some of them need therapy. It all looks a bit contrived to me…and has a feeling of desperation about it….but good luck to them…I think they will need it. The Northern Lights are back in the news….Carole Kirkwood the weathergirl did an item on them where she went back to her native Scotland to see them…camera crew at the ready…but it was too cloudy so that was that….I know the feeling…as I have told you previously that I went to Tromso in Norway to see them…and you can’t get any closer…but it was one of those RARE cloudy nights…however I had the pleasure of Patrick Moore’s company with whom I discussed planets you can see which are light years away…I learnt a lot from this character. I tuned in to radio 2 during the week and caught an interview with Albert Lee…who for my money is the best guitarist in the world…and he was saying that because he played country in the sixties he was overlooked because everyone was switching to heavy metal….he’s backed The Everlys,Emmy lou Harris,Shakin’ Stevens,Clapton and loads of others….including Don Woods. Last year I had the pleasure of standing in at a rehearsal with him and James Burton….I can now say I’ve been backed by Albert Lee and James Burton …AT THE SAME TIME !!!...if that aint cool I don’t know what is.
