Erm, I don’t usually talk about any non-music related products on this site, unless I’m venting my spleen at something trivial or other, but I thought I’d make an exception on this one.

I was so delighted by silliness of the idea – in a good way, not a sneer in sight – that I thought you should all know about the lovely Miss Sugar Kane (that has got to be a stripper’s name) and her quilted ukulele bags.

Now normally even the idea of beautifully quilted uke bags wouldn’t be enough to earn you a slot on these hallowed pages, but this is how Sugar introduced herself in the comments section of one of my posts about getting drunk and playing music far too loud:

Ha! Same here. Although these days when I get carried away by music and vodka and lofty feelings I tend to grab my ukulele and Rolling Stones songbook. And I always sound fantastic, would you believe it.

And the email sheepishly suggesting a quick plug on the site:

Obviously you don’t blog about needlework but I just thought I’d let you know, in case you know of any ukes up there in Scotland who are suffering from the cold.

So I hope you understand quite why I was so tickled. A vodka-drinking, Stones-playing, uke-bag embroiderer. What could be more rock ‘n’ roll than that?

Jolie Holland – Darlin’ Ukelele (Apparently both the ‘u’ and the ‘e’ spellings are fine, so no pedantic quibbling.)