Will we ever get a sustained period of decent weather?

I posit not, at this rate. I hate this horrid chilly overcast weather. It's bad for lurgy, and it's bad for morale. I have turned to the rabid acquisition of Squier guitars, a largely indoor pursuit. So far I have got real bargains on a Strat and a Tele.

The Strat is a nice off-white late eighties or early nineties job with a maple neck. The methods for precise dating from serial numbers break down rather with this particular series, so we'll never know. It's old enough to have settled down, anyway, and it's pretty nice. It has ceramic magnets for the pickups, rather than the alnicos which are often found in Fenders and which have greater depth to the tone. This is assuming that the alnico pickups sir is wailing on are good alnico pickups, however. The ones generally found in the recent Squiers are utterly lacking in that elusive musical attribute that we shall term willy. So I'm quite pleased to have the ceramics really, and I have a seventies reissue Fender Strat with alnicos anyway. I think I'll end up using a ceramic at the bridge and alnicos in the middle and neck positions, in fact, for best results. Then again, I think I'll end up using a Tele...

The Tele should be coming today. It's going to be lovely, unless I have been mislead. It'll need a few parts, but I have the cannibals playground of decent Fender parts under my bed to plunder. It'll be an old one, and the older the better with yer Squier. I am looking forward to making this a bespoke instrument.

Little else to report. I am playing around with fuzzboxes and delays at the moment, having recognized that this is pretty much what I do. I also continue to play bass in the Talc Daemons, which is good fun. If I could fit it in the boot of the band Escort I'd get a decent bass rig, but I can't so I won't.