This has been one of those weekends that you wait for, savour while it lasts and enjoy the memory once passed. Nothing is better than time with family, so the heart of our weekend was my sister and husband staying over, enabling us to catch up. Although we speak regularly on the telephone, face to face is so much better.

I was working in the afternoon, but as I was leaving our postman set the tone for the day with the delivery of two long awaited CDs, Inna de Yard The Soul of Jamaica, and Oum’s latest offering Zarabi. Marvellous music from both sides of the Atlantic. Th raw, uncut reggae rather like Jamaican moonshine. Illicit not mainstream and each track exciting you for more. This balanced with the light, jazzy and clear diction of Oum with her haunting melodies from the desert of Morocco.

Sadly I had to wait until Sunday to listen to them as it would have been rude to say “Hello, sit down, have a drink”, and then play music for my own pleasure; anyway we had a table booked at the George in Croscombe and that was our treat for Saturday night. As always excellent seafood beautifully presented, my sister opted for duck and wasn’t disappointed either. It was busy we arrived just as a sitting of 20 had ordered, so much apologies for a delay, but with good conversation the time passed quickly. The chef came and spoke afterwards, a hundred covers in one day, that is pretty good for a village pub in Somerset and speaks volumes for the standard of food produced.

In my last piece I introduced Kawehi, I am pleased to say we have tickets to see her in Cardiff in September and also Dreadzone when they appear at the Cheese and Grain in Frome in April.

The music just gets better and better, and with the sun beaming down on me as I type I guess that it is well over the yardarm, so “”thank you a Cuba Libre would be just perfick”.

 

 

 

 

 

thank you YouTube for the videos.