Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

If all else fails, there’s always basket weaving

If I fail to master playing licks on the blues harmonica, it may be my only remaining option

[Photo: Lukasok] 
issue 08 May 2021

The only thing left for me now is to embrace humility and take up basket weaving. In our dog and ferret club in the 1990s we had a ferret guy called Ron. Ron was an old sweat Royal Marine and he applied Royal Marine levels of commitment and organisation to our dog and ferret shows, as a strategy, I think, in his battle against the bottle.

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