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Sounds like it's done right in the states.

We came upon one of these caches while walking around an old (as in four - five hundred years, maybe more ) graveyard at a place called Layde. What got us interested was a newly carved name at the base of one of the stones - saying "Wizard of Zigton". It very clearly should not have been there as no-one has been buried in the place for about 150 years.

We did the internet search and sure enough there was a reference to a geocache which is under one of the grave surrounds. I can understand why people would be drawn to the place, it is beautiful, and in quiet repose ( I wrote a song about it which was posted on Chordie), but I thought cutting words into someone else's grave stone went too far.  There's a reference here http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de … 9424e9f156 .

If you're only turning over logs and stuff, Topdown, then go for it. Anything that drags kids away from the computer and pay per view is good in my book.

I used to use soft picks, but I couldn't use them to shift to pick individual notes - I ended up trying to bend the picks to get them to stiffen up.

Now my daughter uses the old soft picks for sticking on my birthday card every year - it's the best use for them.

There are a lot of pick types - tortex is very good. It is thin, but returns to its original shape very quickly. I use Dunlop yellow 73's. It allows you to strum and pick. If you want to use a pick, then persevere with the loose hold on the pick. It pays dividends in the long run.

You can try visualizing what is happening in the song, someone crying, the rain etc

I find this easiest with my own songs, where I have a fairly clear idea of the "plot".

The Greeks used to learn off hours of speeches by imagining they were on a journey that they would take regularly and know well. They would "plant" a visual clue at each turn of the road, or at familiar points. When they wanted to remember the speech they would then take a virtual walk in their mind. Imagine the Hotel California outside your front door, a massive tiffany lamppost outside the beer store etc.

Used Sibelius once - for bluegrass songs. I'd be interested to see this.

I'm not sure that Jerome was talking about preventive care. Over here preventive care is about not smoking, taking exercise, drinking moderately etc

It seems to me that it's about when a worry turns into a crisis. I want to be able to ask about my worries.

If I'm bleeding where I shouldn't be bleeding, or finding it difficult to climb the stairs, then I want to be able to ask a Doctor. That's not preventative care, it's medical care. if I have to wait until I hit the ground, then that's no care at all.

Elvis Costello recently talked about a song in which he mentions his concrete fingers. You know how they set like concrete when you're trying out a new chord, or a new song.

I like to value the times when I get those concrete fingers, cause it means there is more to learn, and I love the buzz when you can play it with ease.

Also what Duxrus said about having the guitar at hand - so when you're dressed up to go out and herself says she'll just be five minutes ( and you know you have half an hour ) - you just reach out. She's started calling it the wooden woman !!!

This story has made it big over here, people are jumping up and down to put the record straight on the NHS.

This is now what we are hearing about the US Health system - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … healthcare . Is that a true picture ?

One interesting figure I saw was that the US spends 16% of GDP on health - the UK spends just 8 %.

Hey Selso,

very  poignant song - there's a line somewhere between the blues and old time that you have made your own here

Hi Badeye,

"Till you got a pain in your side"

I couldn't have resisted "backside".

Herself and a mate went down to Dublin to see U2 (they were on the guest list somehow) on Friday last. They were supposed to get the bus, but ended up going by car and almost missing the start of the concert.

The oldest with his girlfriend went the next night by bus. It's a 24 hour service and apparently the queues were out the door an round the back for the return to Belfast. Apparently, it was all dead romantic though.

This reminded me of a line in a song by Guy Clarke -

"The shortest distance between two towns / Is riding in a Limo with the window down."

I know what you mean with this one. Mum keeps threatening to drag out the old photos. It's like a ticking time bomb. We'll all end up in tears.