Bloody hell, for those that don't know me and even those that do, I am a grumpy old git, and this site is somewhere for me to vent my frustrations and say it as it is, no bullshit here, however, something happened today that has shown me the brighter side of life and that there are even large companies that still have  the personal touch with their clients.

I teach a couple of guitar courses, Guitar Set Up & Guitar Building, and had an idea to maybe give the students/learners something extra to takeaway from the course other than the knowledge they have pick up, so I wrote to quite a few guitar, amplifier companies asking if they would like to send me something to hand out to those on the course, I contacted over 80 companies only 4 came back to me with replies 3 of these were sorry we don't do that sort of thing, one however Blackstar Amplification replied asking me how many students i had, I explained that it would be a maximum of 30 a year,  Joel the gentleman who replied said he would put something in the post, WOW, I was a little shocked could this nice young man restore my faith in the personal touch?
Today a BIG bag of goodies arrived from Joel, Lanyards, Keyring's and Stickers, everything I had suggested, all the gifts are of excellent quality and I am sure my students will love them, so I am going to do something I don't normally do and say "Thanks Joel and Blackstar for your support and the gifts" what an amazing company, they could quite as easily have ignored me like the others but they went out of their way to give support, I need to go lie down now, I am still in shock.

Oh, and yes I do have a Blackstar amp, it's a Core ID40. it's amazing, I had a Marshall before but the Blackstar beats it into the ground.

​Off to my hammock.

The snow is here, it's arrived, and it's no good moaning about it, that's my job.
Every time we get more than 2cm of snow in the UK everything stops, Trains, Buses, cars, they all stop, I don't get it, I have driven to work every day this week with large amounts of snow causing a few problems, but none that I can't get around.  So what's all the panic about.

I can remember as a kid 50 odd years ago that it snowed every winter, it was always about 15cm - 30cm deep, we all carried on with our jobs, we all went to school, we made the most of it, I can remember going to Hampstead Heath and riding the slopes on my mums tin tray, great fun, we often ended up cut and bruised but that was all part of it,  Snow ball fights, we had them every break at school, now most schools ban students from even touching it 'WTF' they have taken away learning experiences from young people.

​As for the trains, I could mention Scandinavia where there are bigger issues with snow yet everything seems to run OK?

SO come Britain, wheres they fight gone, it's a little snow, if we can't cope with that what the fuck are we gonna do when the EU decides to invade our country, which they will try in the future once we leave that shit club the common market, common my arse.

Stiff upper lips boys & girls, lets not let a little snow defeat us.

Time for a lie down now as the buses bringing the student to college are not running, FFS.