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So, what's the master plan Kenny?
Short term... once sold... tempted to buy an old coach, strip it, and use it to transport all our gear north... once we find a location, convert it (coach) into a 4-berth holiday-let; try and set up some other lets; concentrate on the writing and photography; Jackie has some ideas of her own, as does Roshina - most of it gels together...
Some of it is towards the idea of a spiritual retreat...
J's not 100% on board (sic) with the coach idea but I can buy one for a fifth of the removal/relocation costs...
Location... main drag in the Highlands - the road from Inverness to Ullapool, or from Fort William to Skye, or the Great Glen (Caledonian Canal, which runs from Fort William to Inverness, passing Loch Ness on the route) - a lot of it will be arts-and-crafts related... once it happens I'll sporadically do something like my road-trip stuff...
A later plan is to build a (small-but-perfectly-formed) rehearsal space that I can also rent out - somewhere you can open the (barn)doors and look out to the mountains for inspiration (and midgies
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There's a certain degree of risk in this but we see no future in London, or anywhere in the south-east of England, for that matter... London is mortally wounded, as are most big cities, imho...
Presently sorting out packing for instruments that have no homes so just bought a "Coffin" - I have cases for the Acoustic, the SG, the Hohner, and the Jazz lives in the RD's case, so the RD can go in the Coffin and I'll pick up another couple of budget ones for the AD and R's P copy (which presently lives in a bag)
I'm hopeful, once relocated, that I may ask a certain notable party to make me a body to go with my other Jazz neck, but that's presently only wish territory until we're sorted...
I'll need to start seeding stuff away to build up kit for the space and sell off some other stuff - I went through some old Pennie Smith slides last night and found about 15 unpublished Zep at Knebworth originals, one Cash, some Roxy, Hunter/Ronson, Lou Reed, a load of CSNY from Wembley '74, Jeff Beck, a single McCartney, Hawkwind with Lemmy, 10CC - scan and sell original... oh yeah, and a bunch of some band called Deep Purple #III at the Hammersmith Odeon...
not sure of all of them yet...
