The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Didn't intend to write this. Intended to write about Christopher Robin. Wrote this instead. If you want to read the beginni...

any day is a good day to listen to Tom Paxton, but...

This issue is exposition, mostly.

Morris dancing is a mostly English tradition of highly stylized folk dance. It is definitely old -- Shakespeare's Dauphin mockingly c...

Tolkien didn't like pantomimes. He thought that A.A Milne had completely missed the point of Wind in the Willows; he thought that Macb...

1: Some of my socialist friends have a bad habit of confusing "is" with "ought". Because the Church of England oug...

In case anyone is still awake, this is a playlist of some of the songs I mentioned in my folk diary. And this is a video of a man singin...

  You've been a Batman fan since you were a little kid; and a jobbing comic-book hack since you left college; and it has finally happe...

A few more highlights....

A short walk along the promenade  esplanade.

Lindisfarne *  Ralph McTell * Kitty Macfarlane * Jeff Warner * Ragged Trousers * Alice Jones * Mary Humphreys & Anahata * Annie Winter ...

It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet said never before -- and he had been coming to Sidmouth for goodness knows how long... two y...