The patience of angels...

In Otley over the weekend. It’s a conveniently short distance - no more than a dozen steps - from the Junction pub, to the Balti House for a curry, to Kork’s Wine Bar, where Boo Hewerdine was appearing in the music room. He’s an engaging character… with the kind of self-depracatory comments and anecdotes that seem appropriate when you’ve written loads of wonderful songs over the years, but still can’t quite fill a room at the back of a pub in a small town in West Yorkshire. Songs like Muddy Water, Bell, Book and Candle and the Patience of Angels (“There's a door… in a wall… in a house… in a street… in a town… where no-one knows her name”) really hit the spot for me…

The village pond at Nun Monkton...