Well its incredibly frustrating isn’t it? The weather last week was scorching hot, and I was at work – this week, my week off, its been pissing it down! I thought I might have gone off on a motorbike holiday, or at least a good number of day trips, but no such luck!

Wednesday I braved the conditions and went to see my aged parents, over 100 miles south, it was ok going, but the rain on the way back was torrential! Blimey, the road was inches deep in water, there was lightning overhead, and the air was grey, like one was actually riding inside of the thundercloud! 

Anyhow, I like to have a sing song while I’m riding, not at that actual part of the ride, I was just hanging on at that point, but later, when it calmed down a bit, I was singing Across the Border by ELO (this video features a rabbit – I have no idea why – its not my video!)

Funny really, I hadn’t thought about their music for a long time, maybe it was going to the old home town that sent me back in time. The country roads round there are good!  I should have been singing Summer and Lighting – given the circumstances

When I was a nipper, I liked ELO, but then I found the Damned, and they became my go to for live and loud music – there’s not much to show what it was like, but I did recently find this video – this reflects the sound at that time, pretty noisy and youthful – just click anywhere on the timeline and get your ears mashed!

I was pretty inspired by that video when I watched it last week, it reminded me of why I liked some of that stuff, they played really well and provided a lot of laughs and entertainment during a difficult time. 

A few years after that, they grew up a bit, had a line up changes and came up with this sort of old rocker thing. I remember someone saying they “grew up with the Rolling Stones” you could say that with the Damned, they grew up a bit too, not a lot really to be honest, but anyway, I just loved the way the songs got softer. 

I liked softer music, then found the harder stuff, then mellowed a bit, but I still like the old stuff as well as the new.

Oh yeh, I been hearing a lot from the anti-vax people lately, I think its because the focus is on them to get vaccinated, but they don’t want to! Well, you know it’s all a plot to kill you don’t you? I’m still a bit nervy about being killed, even at this age, so I do understand! I’m vaccinated, by the way, I feel that the government’s let us all down by not even attempting to eradicate the virus using track and trace, no, we now have to live with it, or die with it – thanks governments! Thanks for creating a new and worse world for us all to struggle in! Bastards . . . !