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The Animal Years, the new album from Josh Ritter.

If you like Ryan Adams then you’ll probably like this. I think I prefer this, actually. There are a couple of really great tunes on there - my picks being the first single, Girl In The War and the epic intensity of Thin Blue Flame.

Very nice. He’s playing in Glasgow in May. Might have to look into that.

Yes, the imagery just keeps on coming.

The Borders store in Edinburgh is doing a run of small gigs on Sunday afternoons. This was singer-songwriter Andi Neate. She and the store were more than happy for me to shoot, which was nice. Slightly unexpected, though - perhaps big business isn’t always as faceless and impersonal as we expect. Not always, anyway. The music was very good, also.

Over the last few weeks we’ve seen an unusual amount of snow around here - and it’s been what I might even call real snow.

This morning we awoke to a few centimetres (which is stacks for this part of the country) carpeting the street and covering the cars. Played hob with the commuter traffic this morning.

Of course, by lunchtime the rain had come and it was all a distant memory. But not to the two boys playing in the street as I came in just before tea-time. They had managed to find a little pocket of snow somewhere - probably under someone’s garden shed or something - and were each running around clutching a ball of the stuff, not daring to throw it because then it would be gone. Or at least they would have to scrabble around on the ground for the shards of snowball to try and gather them back up for another shot.

That would be dedication.

A shot from last summer.