Apologies for the delay; heavy drinking and a head injury aren't conducive to video editing...

I'm playing Daddy this weekend, and I'm staying with my cousin Kathy for the rest of the day. Of course, I'd originally planned to take the kids out for a nice walk. Maybe check out a local castle or a country park.

But it's raining, in a big way. And Jessie has a nasty cough...

A poem about not getting back to harbour

Black Star members Neil Campbell & Ryan Roo play around with an acoustic guitar that needs dusting, a pair of tom toms that need oiling and agree for a slightly drunk novice sound engineer (that's me) to capture it with his recording device in the ArkSanctum.Org Studio.

This comes more or less unedited bar a little normalisation. So be patient. And enjoy...

I hit the ground hard. It was dark and I was freezing. Somehow I'd fallen. Or rather, I'd landed on an aluminium ladder. But it was pitch black, and for some reason I thought I'd been in a huge building, with lights at the far end.

And that's when I realised. I was at home. In the middle of the night, I'd just fallen out of the loft, and I didn't have a stitch on.

Parents of missing teenager Kylie Biscuit have been informed by South Yorkshire Police that her daughter is not photogenic enough to make the Six O’Clock News.

“While we have the deepest sympathy for Mister Barrel and Miss Biscuit, we have advised them that they are just too working class to be of sufficient interest to the national channels. The best they can hope for at this time is a slot on the local news round up.”

Exactly ten years ago today, a signal from the Galileo spacecraft caused a bit of a stir. After almost a decade in space, and having sling shot itself around Venus to pick up speed, and dived through the atmosphere of Jupiter a couple of times, the automated probe's message was even more impressive: Europa has water.

I've been playing with the Bass Station vsti - really liking it - that's what's playing the main riffs on this track. The bass was done with FXpansion's free Orca vsti.

The voice is taken from a public information film called 'Keep Off The Grass'...

Tomorrow (Monday 25th Feb) is the anniversary of the last ever successful invasion of Britain by a foreign army. You're not likely to hear much mention on it in the mainstream media, though. I don't imagine the 211th anniversary of anything is likely to warrant the front pages. (Unless the Daily Express is still in circulation in 2218, and then we will no doubt still be able to enjoy headlines about Diana and Maddie)

So, in the interests of not letting this important historic event go unreported for another 39 years, and just while we're all having fun waving our flags for the Sick Nations Rugby Cup, I thought it might be fun to lift the lid off this long forgotten threat to our Nation, which took place on a day very much like today...