BACK ON THE TRACK

I've been back at home since late Sunday night, caught up with some (though not enough) sleep, dealt with the e-mail backlog and yesterday - in warm and windless weather - Sarah and Mavis and I took the day off and went up into the Pyrenees. Sat up high (4,885 feet) on the Col d'Aspin in shirtsleeves, eating a picnic and looking across at snowy peaks and down over the Kaffe Fassett colours of the autumn trees: a pretty perfect day. Especially since November is mere days away.

This morning I'm back at my desk. Plenty of loose ends to tie up from the US trip. Mostly it was in Georgia with talks on Searching for Blind Willie McTell - though it began on Long Island NY, followed by a night in Brooklyn with Wes Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) and family, and included, at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, my last-ever talk on Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues. One future plan is to devise a new version of Bob Dylan & the History of Rock'n'Roll, using DVD footage, and then to try it out at a country cinema about 15 miles from here in France. In English.