Good news! We haven’t had Goats in the garden for around a week and the plants have had a chance to sprout buds. Tick! We’ve got all the Daffodils now and Clematis on the go. Tick! Everything is starting to pop. Of course the Gamekeeper helped the plants by ‘persuading’ the Goats to browse elsewhere with his persuading stick – the noisy one! And it turns out, to no great surprise, that the Feral Goats are not only wild, but they are hosts to other wild things living on them. Ticks! We know this because the aforementioned Gamekeeper said he had ten of them crawling up his arm while he was skinning a Goat. (Not sure if that’s a Cannabis-culture phrase? I’ve heard of the phrase – ‘acting the goat’ – when someone was ‘at it’ or being ‘fly’ but I’m not sure if ‘skinning a goat’ means rolling a special cigarette – on reflection, maybe not! He’s a chill guy but not in an alternative-relaxation sort of way.)
Anyhoo…I digress! Things are popping and yet it began to snow today. Not much and nothing lay, but it just reminds me that I need to get more wood for the fire.
Another thing that happened today was that I finally began uploading tunes to Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube Play and others. Tick! It’ll take a few days to distribute everywhere but it should mean that Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa will know about Jackson Greenhorn. I’ve always had an ego…I mean, it’s not huge…I don’t crave attention or suck all the oxygen out of a room at a party (actually I can’t be arsed with Parties – they’ve always been a disappointment.) I don’t expect any notice to be given, but a basic recognition of existence would be good. “Hey Google, play Jackson Greenhorn!”…“Searching for a packet of sweetcorn”.
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