Sometimes when you're busking.... there be dragons....

Busking at the market on the hottest day EVER - just had to be commemorated and enshrined in song. The song contains snippets from the market day, some memories from the hot summers of youth, and most vitally the four horsemen of the apocalypse…

Blue Cheese And Strawberries - the sky on a summer evening - relaxing in the garden with a glass of gin - that's the real world for you right there

This is one I wrote a few years back but didn’t really get anywhere with. Its quite jolly. The starting point was the idea of rolling down a hill and hitting a flint, picking it up and keeping it. Lyrics Headlong down the hill, I hit a stone…

This one was started a couple of years ago – but it needed a substantial bit of rewriting to make it actually singable. It ended up about an elemental nature spirit looking after its minions. However the original inspiration was getting up in…

I have posted far too many wafty and generally pleasant songs. Time for something a bit more dark and malevolent - back to the dark side...... Lyrics: I’m gonna wait until you are happy again And be waiting for you I’m gonna wait until…

Total bit of fanciful fairy-tale fantasy - water nymph probably. Anyway - it doesn't go too well for her. See you should never mix mortal with the immortal... Lyrics: If you see me floating in the water reach me down a hand and pull me…

Written for a song challenge. We were given the theme of a name found on an item, carved on a tree, on a street sign - whatever. Then off we raced all in our different directions, just to see where different songwriters would end up. I chose to…

Summer In The Wind was written by me and recorded by the Ninja Broilers (myself and my sister). It is dedicated to our mum. A song of sad goodbyes and new beginnings. This is one of our first "international collaborations" - so the production…

Ashes and dragon's breath - bright things in the sky, childhood games, battlegrounds, cemeteries. Lyrics: Long long days, summer holidays, staying up late green wood on the bonfire, we danced around the flames street lights and stars…

When I was young we lived opposite a big play area - lots of grass and trees and bushes to rampage around - and in the middle a tarmac playground with the "amusements" - a witches hat (aka umbrella), a long rocking horse with saddles along its…