the gathered thoughts of Richard Pinnell

I'm in Ireland right now, posting from a little internet cafe that would be a really nice place if they didn't insist on playing Chris Rea records at you. I'm here for the i and e festival again, my third year in succession here. I nearly didn't make it over this time, with other stuff in life getting in the way, but I'm really pleased I made the effort again. The journey here was hell however, a two hour car journey was followed by the severe annoyance of having my debit card stolen by a faulty ATM machine at Stansted airport. Fortunately I had withdrawn plenty of cash earlier or I wouldn't be sat typing this here now. This was followed by a three hour wait at ...

Right, there's so much good music and stuff here right now. I wish I had time to write in ...

Its not been much fun around here of late. My long suffering other half Julie has been ...