Nancy's Crazy Adventures

I recently bought the sheet music to the 1967 Stones Song "Ruby Tuesday", I've always liked it since I was a child and I'm learning to play "She's a Rainbow" so I thought I'd get the music to another Stones song I liked.
Now I had read Brian Jones wrote Ruby Tuesday, all of it, maybe he co-wrote it with Mick And Keith but you'd think his name would be on the sheet music right? as he played the recorder bit seen here and was the only one who played Woodwind instruments so he must have written that bit right? Apparently not because his name is NOWHERE on the sheet music, it just says "Words and music by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards".
I'm trying to work out if there was a legitimate reason for this, like when they kicked him out the band and paid him off were they buying the rights to his songs from him? I can't see him doing that as in interview he spoke very emphatically about being careful about what he signed. But by the end he was quite ill so maybe it would have been easier to hoodwink him into signing all his songs away.
I've emailed the guys at the Brian Jones Fan Club hoping they can shed some light on the matter, if not my dad knows Dick Taylor so I'll just go and ask him as he was in the Stones somewhere around that time. Update- No he wasn't he left in 1963 and started "The Pretty Things", he still might know something though, I can but ask.

Labels: Brian Jones, Ruby Tuesday, sheet music

Sorry for the lack of activity on my blog I've been very busy as I am now doing piano lessons as well as singing lessons and my OU degree starts this month.

The chilli's are all ripening nicely and I have a load of new varieties to try next year, I really need a greenhouse to keep them all in but have nowhere to put one.

There's also two photo's of the freak tomato I found today in my window box, it was two tomatoes growing from the same stem with only one set of leaves. Very bizarre, I still cooked it in my spaghetti bolognaise though.

Labels: chilli's, freak tomato, indoor chilli's

Took this picture of Gizmo peering out from between two chilli plants the other night, sadly there was only a mobile phone to hand so the quality isn't great but it's still a great picture.

Labels: chilli's, gizmo

I've finally got a plot to grow vegetables in from the adopt a garden scheme they are running locally. It's a bit late in the season but I got a packet of winter lettuce with a gardening magazine I buy and am starting some spinach. The lettuce seeds are coming up (you can see three in the back row) but the spinach seeds haven't done anything yet, it's only been a 2 days though so something is bound to happen soon.

I sent off for some new chilli seeds today I've ordered a mixture of "Scotch Bonnet" seeds as the TV chefs seem to keep going on about them so I want to see what all the fuss is about. I also chose variety that gives multicoloured chilli's called "Numex Twilight" the chilli's grow yellow orange and red as well as purple according to the photo's. I'm getting a variety that grows purple chilli's called "Purple Tiger" as well, and variety that has dark leaves and the chilli's grow black before turning red called "Black Pearl".

I can't wait it's time to strat growing them again as I'm really getting into growing chilli's, I'm amazed by how many varieties there are and how ornamental the plants can be.

Labels: chilli's, Gardening, spinach, winter lettuce

I started a new wine kit that claims to be drinkable in 7 days, it remains to be seen whether that's true or not, but it's certainly fermenting well. In fact it is fermenting so well it's bubbling up the airlock, I perhaps should have left more room at the top of the demijon when I filled it up.
It's called "Solomon Grundy's seven day wine kit the box has the slogan "started on Monday drunk by Sunday!" and it's Bilberry flavour wine apparently.
I'm sceptical as to whether it will really be at it's best after seven days as you have to add chemicals to these kits to stop the wine fermenting and clear it, and if you leave them just as long as the instructions say I find I can still taste them.
I also have an Elderflower wine kit to start off, that takes at least a month the last one I had (which was strawberry) I left for another month after adding the finings and the taste improved a lot.

Labels: home brew, home made wine, solomon grundy's seven day wine kit