I bumped into Tim the Gardener in the Post Office the other day, just as he was running off copies of his Open Mic Night News. It sounds as if I missed a good night - Dirty Ray enjoyed it so much he came back again (and sang the same set "but does it matter when performance quality is so high?" Tim wrote), and the bar was packed full. They also got Tim and Penny White, who will be playing at the Baskerville Hall Hotel on Wednesday 11th May. "...it is the spacious sun-drenched feel of the desert that characterises her songs", says Tim, of the couple who say they are from Wales and Arizona. And there were poems, and Chris read from his book, and Briar and Jake Hughes sang, so there was plenty of variety.
Tim finished the evening, somewhere near midnight, pushing a wheelbarrow full of books up the hill to the shack where he'll be spending the summer.