Old Mandos and new podcasts

Hi all of you over there in Blighty. What a week! We've managed to avoid any more brushes with the law and or waiters except wifey thought I was beng abusive to a waiter again this week (the Maltese word for bill as in food bill is kont!!!!!!)
So wifey's was well surprised when I shouted accross the restaurant "Il-Kont" It took me a few minutes to explain that I hadn't called the waiter a poorly fanny!

So apart from the usual holiday type things we took a catamaran up to Sicily and went up to Mount Etna...which is still smoking!!!!!! (told it to give up but there were no patches available) we walked around a crater and had a great day out. althought the Sicilians are crazy. Part of the tour is climbing up the winding roads of Etna in this coach. The guide kept pointing out buildings that have been buried by the frequent Lava sliding down from the too frequent eruptions over the years. So why build slap bang in the middle of the devastation a brand new five star hotel?????

Tuesday was a cool evening...well it wasn't it was hot but We did a cool thing. My Auntie Winnie has stashed away my Nannu's(grandfather's) Mandolin . He died in 1961 some ten years before I came about but he used to play this mando at home for years. We reckon it is over 70 years old. It hasn't been played properly for about 47 years. It was presented well cared for but in need of some help so wifey set about polishing with some dunlop 65 and some lemon oil. Then she re strung it with some new Ernie Ball strings witin the hour it was ready to play and it sounded beautiful. The old Mando still has my Nannu's pick scratches on it. Wifey said it strung like a dream and it certainly had a lovely sound to it, then rockstar played it I wondered if my Nannu all those years ago realised his great grandson would play that Mandolin......a great evening. I handed it back to Auntie Winnie who had many a tear in her eye.

Spriggan mist have been included on issue 125 of Muzika 'mod iehor ...the weekly podcast by Toni Zammit. This podcast is downloaded all over the world Toni played Lazy Stones and The Merry Mead. Our myspace had about 100 hits this week as a result. So we are well chuffed .....ok it's festa time tonight we are going to San Lawrenz in Vittoriosa!!! any way off for an afternoon nap cjow!!!!!