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not a word was spoke between us

…there was little risk involved, everything up to that point had been left unresolved, try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm, ‘come in,’ she said, ‘i’ll give you shelter from the storm.’

they say ev’ry man needs protection, they say ev’ry man must fall

…yet i swear i see my reflection, some place so high above this wall. i see my light come shining from the west unto the east and any day now, any day now i shall be released.

and i’ll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it…

…and reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it, then i’ll stand on the ocean until i start sinkin’, but i’ll know my song well before i start singin’, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard rain’s a’gonna fall.

he made his usual entrance looking so dandy and so fine…

with his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place, he took whatever he wanted and he laid it all to waste, but his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts.

i’m out here a thousand miles from my home

I’m having a Bob day. There’s really no better kind. It’s utterly miserable out there but Bob’s resounding off my walls, so it’s OKAY. Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song About a funny old world that’s a’comin’ along. Seems sick and it’s hungry, it’s tired and it’s torn, It looks like it’s [...]

here’s to ‘Cisco an’ Sonny an’ Leadbelly too, an’ to all the good people that travelled with you

I’m sitting here with a glass of red at half past 4 in the afternoon. I could feel guilty, but I don’t. That’s what holidays are for, no? My boy is cooking up a Greek storm in the kitchen. He’s ever-such-a-goodun. The most productive thing I have done today is empty the wardrobe, clean it, [...]

cast your dancing spell my way, i promise to go under it

Bob Dylan by Richard Avedon. Enough said.

i've spent all my money on whiskey and beer

The sun was out, the trees shone red, and the champagne flowed (and flowed and flowed); I ended October with a beautiful autumnal, Yorkshire wedding. My Tara Jarmon dress made it’s debut and, I must say, did a very good job at being fabulous. My dangerously-high/delightfully-stunning/effortlessly-charming/attention-seeking shoes also made their debut and, I must say, [...]