Here I am at the edge

If nothing changes it will be the same I said years ago, "If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck," and the news of my latest injury presses the point home more.  I was planning a trip to a jazz festival in May of next year, the venue is the site of my zombie story. This would have been a return visit as I went to  Bridgnorth  several years ago for a Folk music festival.

Ghosts of Jazz Ghosts of Jazz is a story I wrote several years ago to great acclaim from several readers; the book is for sale on Draft2Digital    https://www.draft2digital.com/book/32323 This is a sample of the beginning of a story I was writing a few months ago. The lady walked onto the floor like a cat on the prowl, eyeing the crowd. She was no youngster but her voice and sexual presence more than made up for lack of youthful vigor. Cat knew she held the stage; the men wanted her, and the women wanted to be her. Her patrons loved Cat, and she was feared by those who crossed her. She is the Black Cat.   At the top of the Merrick building in Medville, there is a small club known as Room 666. Inside this secluded area, is a jazz lounge that is frequented by the most exclusive guests, if you get an invite you have become a respected member of a high-class elite group whose powers are only limited by your desires. The main thing about this room is money c...

The year I almost made the festival Ten long years Jazz festivals   My friends and readers of this blog will tell that I had longed to visit my home county of Yorkshire for more years than I recall. My family moved to the Bristol area in the winter of 1963, when I was seven. Alan Ayckbourn    One of my wishes was to see an Alan Ayckbourn play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre ; a wish I later attributed to seeing Brian Rix on TV in farces. This wish almost came true in 2010, on my last visit to Scarborough I could have seen Liza Goddard performing. The choice was to see the play or have a meal. My wife did ask if I had taken enough money on the trip when I departed. I replied that as the trip was a working holiday, and I had no intention of going in the arcades, I had enough for my needs. I would have had enough if I'd put the correct batteries in my camera. The batteries I installed were too weak, and I went through two batteries every day; this was t...