What a nice little town!

Foul drive down - nearly 2 hours to do 4 miles by Stonehenge, so arrived after 7 pm, to my annoyance.

Fun in the Bedford until LATE Fri/Sat - the weak Otter Bitter was excellent. Some fine players but really too much background noise to sing much. Lost a capo and someone put a dent in my guitar. And so to bed ratarsed at 4 am.

A day on the beer but not too much on Sat. Good Otter Bitter in the Newt. Good rapper side called something funny like Scrunge (not quite - ah! Smudge) came in. Pasty from sho up side alley.

Not so keen on the beer in the Swan, but a fairly nice session until it descended into alcohol-fuelled Americana and AR. Then the Ship (enjoyed that), a quick admire of Stacey's expert diddling downstairs in the Anchor, and a look into the upstairs middle bar.

Eat lamb and mint pattie from pasty shop by church. Very nice.

Inspect Bedford from outside - no way that I fit in there! Wander and look into various doors - the sessions seem to be mostly diddly or humpty. Stroll up road and look into Swan (totally rammed!) and Radway (sounded diddly) and so on to the Volunteer - that was more relaxed, but I had had enough to drink by then if I was going to drive Sunday.

Nice drive back on Sunday - not much traffic until after Honiton, Nice play A303/M3 with an Audi that was about 7 years younger than my Volvo, and fair until Heathrow where there was a nasty blockage.

Nice to see JB, KtC, Dilligaf, the Shirt Murderer, Noreen and Stewart, Thrift music owner, Breton Cap, Gastove and any other friends I may have forgotten.


Must try to get there for longer next year. More planning to get to the right places at the right times.