I had a really busy day and didn't get to check my phone until leaving work. My friend had sent me an SMS message to say Johnny Cash was dead sometime this morning.
I really thought he was immortal - he's been around forever as far as I'm concerned after all! So, among an inevitable deluge of huge tributes, a small personal one - Johnny, yours were the only records I ever stole from my dad.
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.