Man of the World - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

  Peter Green Part III (finalé)
Shall I tell you about my life, they say I'm a Man of the World

and I've flown across every tide, and I've seen lots of pretty girls!

One thing the Band of Gypsies could never be accused of is not getting the maximum out of a gig this being the 3rd and final epidode of the Peter Green 'look-alike' yarn.
 It seemed as if the arrival of Peter had hit all ears at all hostelries even before stepping
off the plane so, here we are after Blarney Castle at about 14:00 entering

 

SIN-E Live Music Bar for the afternoon céilidh.   

I don't recall the band's name but they were already there and started playing 
soon after we had got yet another gratis round of Murphy's.

A Whole Lotta Led always starts things off on the right note,

but one glimpse of the Uilleann Pipes (complete with elbow-bellow) did it for me. The undoubted maestro of this haunting instrument is Cumbrian Troy Donockley, to hear him at his best take a listen to The Night Sky from the album below on You Tube but for heavens sake do not miss the  epontmous track from the album Passengers by the wonderfully talented band 

Mostly Autumn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-og1diwISo

 It was to my delight to see them at the Mean Fiddler, Charring Cross Road, London 
just 2 weeks after the release of this fantastic album with 
Portsmouth band IQ on the same bill performing the sensational album Dark Matter in full.
Miss this at your peril particularly if you love Prog Rock!

Acoustic Guitar and Flute

were joined by the Bodhrán, an Irish frame drum,

and a Guinness or three, followed by an evening visit to

 and the
Peter Green Gig Begins

for a couple bottles of decent vino

and a very tasty dinner before making for

The Bodega Night Club the other side of the River Lee. Time for a chat with Jim and a chance to straighten the hat. There had already been some mention of the Peter Green lookalike in Sin E

but it was about to be cranked up a few notches by these 2 gentlemen who simply wouldn't have it that I was not 'the man'.

They in turn introduced me to Kate O'Shea, Events and Promotions Manager both here and at the Crane Lane Theatre, with her and I hitting it off immediately,

while Craig and Jim had a little jig.

The next photo shot was 'in the round' but now time to spread ourselves about and meet more people. Mostly female (no complains there) but by now the days 'hellraising' was starting to take its toll. What a great vibe, a really exciting place to be

and I wouldn't be at all surprised if we don't all come back again, preferably SOON!

Some of the original manuscripts, ledgers and wine that was found in the vaults when being converted into this nightclub.

We also met up with owner David, in the blue shirt, and shared a couple of bottles of wine along with 3 members of the 'in-house' band Renegade.

Well, looks to me every bit as though someone is ready to leave

so as the City Hall bell struck 3a.m.

 we poured ourselves into a taxi and headed for bed. What a Day, What a Gig and What a Town!

 Sláinte Mhaith - Marillion

A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado, a carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far This is the story so far

From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of it's broken men From the realisation that all we've been left behind Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line Waiting on the whistle to blow

Would the last one to leave please blow out the lights!

just before describing my last couple of hours in Ireland. With Ian gone at noon on Sunday and the others already departed I was left struggling with the 'photoless Blog' and a taxi booked for 13:00. Ideally, it would have been fantastic to have visited another of my all time GUITAR HEROES, but time was pressing and the car was awaiting. Telling the driver of my missed opportunity he announced "we'll soon put that to rights" while executing a U-turn.

Arriving at the cemetery just 15 minutes later and with the help of a local who was 
conveniently placed

  to direct me to paying my respects to the man who Jimi Hendrix himself, in answer to the question "how does it feel to be the Best Guitarist in the World"

(posed by a New Musical Express reporter) replied, "best go and ask

RORY GALLAGHER"! 
My trip had certainly been EDGED IN BLUE take a listen to a genius at
WORK! 

Happy the Man - Genesis

So, my temporary and most welcome neighbours of recent days

The Tilley's 

have returned to their native Derbyshire but not before bestowing a little gift!

They are both very capable people with one of Ian's hobbies being

 Palm Frond Weaving

 with their parting gift being this

 LITTLE BIRD

no doubt a

Palm Warbler

Thank You once again and hope to see you 2 and Samuel again soon!

Otherwise, Thursday night, on the whether front, was arguably the best night of the year

but absolutely no argument about the very poor turn out at the traps.

Luckily since then the Moth Gods have been on our side and have sent one or 2 'goodies' our way.

The group that followed were also very welcome made up of

BORDERED SALLOW

which obligingly partially opened its wings,

AUGUST THORN

which is hope a correct identification?

A beautifully marked

MAIDEN'S BLUSH

complete with 'roundals on the trailing edge of the forewings, followed by the unusual!

A moribund

 BROAD-BORDERED BEE HAWK-MOTH

 which subsiquently died.

 One of the anxiously awaited species here in late 

Spring early Summer

 it is not thought to produce a 'second brood'

 although according to the Moth Bible that is

Moths of the British Isles by Bernard Skinner

(1983 being the order number where this species falls in the list of such things)

the above may be found. It would be most interesting to find out if others have

captured this species outside of the given time period?

It may also be of note that the Heath here is strictly speaking in Dorset but in the

World of Moths

still sits in the old county boudaries which is Hampshire!

There have also been some odds and ends, maybe a sign of

Southerly Migration?

such as more

 PIED WAGTAILs

in the garden.

 GREY WAGTAILs

at both the

 Sewerage Works

and

Gravel Pit

but with no indications of breeding this year.

AIRBUS

freshly landed inward from China and captured at a different angle.

 A large build up of

juvenile

SWALLOWs

 on the Heath

 all hell bent on fattening up

for the long and maybe hazardous

Flight South.

A relative low pass of the

COASTGUARD RESCUE CHOPPER

 RARE BREED CATTLE

seeking some shade.

and as Dusk arrived there were more

 NIGHTJARs

on just about every track.

Unfortunately, this will not last much longer as they too head off

on the long migration south!

Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman

Falkland Island's - Part II
The Met Office rarely get it wrong these days and while here on the southern fringe of Dorset
the average rainfall must be very much lower than across the rest of GB, but there was a warning!
The early evening weather chart on Wednesday showed a niggly little pulse of heavy rain for us
early p.m. the next day and that's just what we got!

The first Clap of Thunder was heard at 13:30, with what amounted to a pulse of fairly heavy rain,
and standing in the shower for 10 minutes returned indoors feeling a New Man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZoJ01FpD8

this link will take you through some of the Hippy / Glam / Mod Classics of the 60's and 70's

As well as Thunderclap there is
Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort
which is followed by
The Air That I Breath - The Hollies

Virginia Plain - Roxy Music,
and do not miss this rendition of 
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
They took their name from a school teacher who they disliked, distorting his name
Leonard Skinner. 
It is the only Rock Band name not to contain a vowel at all and before his death the band formed a deep and lasting friendship with their former master!

Stay on this link as it will take you through the songs listed above and more.

 The day finally arrived to recieve a great welcome!

AUSTRAL THRUSH

a bit of a ? here s feel this has been mixed up from mainland

Patagonian Birds??

 TWO-BANDED PLOVER

 FALKLANDS STEAMER DUCK

(female)

 GOSLINGS

seemingly doing very well along with

DAD

 FALKLANDS

 LONG-TAILED MEADOW LARK

 PORT STANLEY

BROWN-HOODED GULL

another key addition to the

Gulls of the World List!

 CRESTED DUCK

 BLACK-CHINNED SISKIN

DECOMMISSIONED FIELD ARTILLARY

 (FALKLANDS)

BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON

IMPERIAL SHAG

FALKLANDS GRASS WREN

As a Serviceman during those heady, hippy years I was unable to be part of
that community but always embraced it in my heart and head.
Luckily things have very much changed and am able now to live
as close to that ethic as is possible.

If you have ever sung Creep by Radiohead to your girl 
 (which I must have done dozens of times)
my own slightly abridged version is

When you’re in my arms and I look you in the eye.
You're just like an angel; your skin makes me cry.
You float like a feather, in a beautiful world.
I wish I was special so very special

but I'm a creep!

you may have notices that the riff scarfs in perfectly with the Hollies classic
The Air That I Breath
" Sleep came upon me and it leaves me weak, so sleep Silent Angel, go to sleep"!
Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breath.