Messing About on the River

Published: Sept. 10, 2014, 3:24 p.m.

I spent this afternoon on my kayak in Chester\u2026.it was paradise\u2026so I thought I\u2019d send you a tribute to this wonderful city which I composed many years ago\u2026it was actually a B side of a vinyl\u2026the A side was a song I did about Chester Zoo which I sold to the Zoo who used it on radio and TV adverts (handy royalties)\u2026this is my original version of the song\u2026the one I marketed to the Zoo was sung by a good friend of mine called Julie Bright who I used on a lot of my demos which required a female vocal\u2026she was great.\n \nBit of a panic going on around here regarding \u201cnecessary\u201d financial cuts which have to be made because of cash shortage\u2026this doesn\u2019t seem to effect things down south as the politicians have awarded themselves a 9% wage increase\u2026I\u2019m so happy for them\u2026.no wonder Scotland want to get out of it all\u2026this will be the news now for the next couple of weeks\u2026.I\u2019m thinking of starting an \u201cIndependent Wirral\u201d campaign\u2026..I\u2019ve never believed in aliens but when I look at our government I\u2019m beginning to wonder.\n \nI\u2019m delighted that the little lad with the medical problem is getting sorted out after his parents recent disgraceful ordeal\u2026but WHY do they have to have BBC reporters outside the hospital in Spain and then in Prague?...just TELL us the news instead of giving these reporters a free holiday on the licence fee\u2026same thing with the new royal baby\u2026.we have to sit and look at some reporter struggling to fill in the time outside the hospital\u2026telling us NOTHING!!!....GIVE US SOME NEWS!!...or refund our licence!!\n \nThe Tate Gallery in Liverpool is having an exhibition of modern art\u2026hmm\u2026I maybe totally wrong but I just don\u2019t see four or five squares painted on a canvass as being art?...it\u2019s rubbish\u2026.but the \u201cexperts\u201d are all gathered round drooling over this stuff\u2026.I thought Tracy Emin\u2019s unmade bed on display was pretty hard to take but this tripe\u2026..I must be missing something\u2026.people can certainly get fooled these days.\nI remember years ago when someone put a canvass on the floor of a scrapyard and got kids to throw paint over it and ride their BMXs over it\u2026the finished job was put on display and all the \u201cexperts\u201d (who didn\u2019t know haw it was produced) could see real \u201cmeaning\u201d in this work of art\u2026what a bunch of plonkers\n \nDid you see my mate Prince Harry on the news\u2026.they asked him about his thoughts on the new royal babba\u2026he said he was delighted\u2026and they then said this would take him further down the line for the throne\u2026he just laughed and said \u201cYeah\u2026GREAT!!\u201d\u2026..he is working with injured army guys and girls getting them into sport\u2026you gotta love this lad.