Short article by JC in today's Guardian (colour mag' page 9) in which he writes about his trip up to the west coast of Scotland to perform at the Robbie Burns festival.

JC writes, "Multi-tasking - it's a modern American phrase that many people hate, but dammit if it ain't the perfect way to describe my life, and probably that of most self-employed people.... I've written a special song for the festival, a metaphysical ballad about a rare sunny day on the island of Arran back in 1994 when I was researching my book, The Modern Antiquarian." JC finishes the article by saying, "By 4am I'm south of Worcester. Scattering deer in all directions, I hit the final half-mile to our middle-of-nowhere domicile and neck a quick Stella Artois. I set the alarm for 9am and have the best three hours' kip known to humanity. Tea with four sugars kick-starts my day, and I've now got 20 minutes before the deadline for this piece. I came, I saw, I multi-tasked - unfortunately for the bard, with regard to his special song, I also totally copped-out!"

Like it :-)