New ZZ Top!

So ZZ Top, the bluesiest, filthiest, beardiest band ever to come out of have a new album out. Texicali is their first prper new album in 9 years, and I'd heard mixed things from over the Atlantic about it, as you tend to with new work after long breaks. Oh, but they still got it! The new album has some crackers on it, like "I gotsta Get Paid", which is based on a rap song by Fat Pat. It's low down, dirty and very ZZ Top! The whole thing feels more like the ZZ Top albums of the 1970s, the ones that make you feel like you're in a hot bar in the desert sweating into your beer whilst these bearded musical leviathans pour molasses into your ears. Or something. I like ZZ Top. Some of the tracks are slower and bluseier than others, but many of them are the head nodding grit that we all love from The Top. Go and buy it! Go and buy it now! Jx

Artefact Analysis?

Know what that is? I'll tell you. It's a ginger beer bottle. Well, part of a ginger beer bottle anyway. It's late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and it originally said "The Pier Mineral Water Company Bangor Stone Ginger Beer." How cool is that? Shush, I think it's cool! The website odds and codds is very interestng if you want to find stuff out about cool old bottles and things, after all, they're part of history too you know! :D Anyway, I was back at work for the first day since early June, and successfully didn't kill anyone or break anything! Yaaaaay! Right, time for a cup of tea and then bed methinks! Nos da! Jx

I'm back!

So I just spent nearly two months digging and working in Ireland and the Isle of Man. It was wet, windy and wonderful! Now back to real work (Agh!) and money (woohoo!) Now that I'm back I'm looking forward to an article I wrote in the Spring being printed next month (hopefully!) and also to getting myself a few more bits and bobs here and there if I can. So sorry about the absence, I shall now make up for it with a pair of 17th century trousers I found in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin last month:

I hope that helps. Ciao! x