who's this heavily made-up type on your header photo?

Who? Why that's me being publicly molested by Shameless Shabacko, aka Jake Rodrigues, of The Pierrotters, who we chanced upon last weekend whilst mooching about The North Pier at Blackpool - a wonderful coincidence as we've been wanting to see them since the Five Guys Named Acko documentary on BBC2 some years ago. Traditional sea-side entertainment at its very finest. I wonder, is there a module on the Folk Degree course about the Pierrot tradition? There should be!