Barn conversion

You can also buy Born In A Barn at the Cherry Red download store: http://www.cherryred.co.uk/downloads/: Eleven tracks of tuneful flair and lyrical drollery whittled with their own hands from West Riding clints and crags by our favourite purveyors of Yorkshire Grit-Pop.

Our cricket team lost by one wicket at the weekend (and I was bowling the last over, arthritically) – we haven't won a game in four years and if it does happen, if there’s a mote of justice in the world, I reckon we'll be on News at Ten, second Big Ben bong after 'Non-poet laureate and talented mate's group hits top of charts'.

I can dream – but The Scaremongers really are the stuff that dreams are made on.