Ah the weekend finally, finally approaches. It’s been another hectic week here at Toad Hall, but I will be glad to put my feet up and have a nice big fat glass of gin tonight. And while we’re on the subject, here is a song that I discovered recently that could pretty well be the theme song to this website:

Derek Meins – The Gin Song

The folks are visiting this weekend as well, and we’re recording the next Toad Session with Meursault on Saturday, and there will be the Great Toad Tom Waits Expedition on Sunday – I’ll confer with some chaps and appoint an official pub for this gathering in the next day or so: say meet at 5pm?.

Oh the excitement, and oh the hectic schedule. Still, Mrs. Toad and I are then away on holiday for a couple of weeks in Portland, and going to the Pickathon music festival. There will be a few interviews conducted, some chatter and maybe even some videos, but basically it is a doing bugger-all sort of holiday. We’ve rented a boat for most of it and will be sitting peacefully afloat and doing pretty much sweet fuck all. I will be posting occasionally, but I haven’t made proper arrangements for C&B to do his usual and very kind job of blog-sitting in my absence, so we may all just have to muddle through as best we can. Don’t worry though, it won’t go silent.

In the meantime, it’s the weekend, and I haven’t had an antiseptically large gin and tonic for fucking ages, and it is very much time to put that right.

Willie Nelson – I Gotta Get Drunk

Oh, and one last thing. Thank you all for taking the time to make some really thoughtful comments on the site this week. Rod Stewart aside, I am a little short of quality new music at the moment, and I had some unbearably pompous verbiage broiling away inside that I kind of had to get off my chest, so thanks for chipping in and making for some really good threads. It really is appreciated when people take part, you know.

Rod Stewart – Baby Jane
Rod Stewart – You Wear it Well