There are a bunch of places I like to visit on the web ... first and foremost is probably www.expectingrain.com which has everything this link should have been doesn't yet. It's newsy, entertaining, argumentative and full of facts, facts, facts. Quite a bit of gossp as well - we can't do without gossip, can we? Anyway, it keeps me in touch with the topic that I like to know about ... and know about early. Dime is another place that gets my attention ... it's the best place to go if you are looking to download what's happening and what's happened ... today and yesterday walk hand in hand there. I can get Bob in Las Vegas a week or so ago ... or Bob at the Other End with Ramblin' Jack Elliot back in the Seventies. Wonderful. A newer place I've been visiting is www.croz.fm - Patrick Crosley's superby blog from Canada ... Quebec, I think, but he does move around. Patrick is responsibile for giving us weekly updates on Bob's Theme Time Radio which may soon be about to start again with Series 3 ... hope so anyway. He has an archive on his blog, so anyone who has foolishly missed any of the radio shows on XM or Radio 2 can go and download them. He also has other delights worth enjoying and all he ask is for donations to help pay for the broadband width. The other place I have a fondness for is The Dreamtime Blog & Podcast - Fred Bal's excellent commentary/explanation/historicmapping of Bob's weekly Theme Time broadcasts. Check it out ... currently he has a piece on the new children's books based on Bob's Forever Young ... There's a neat little video to promote the book which I'm sure all people with little kiddies will be buying for Christmas ... O, no ... I said that word. Time to stop and reach for the tawny port. The picture at the top of this addition is the man himself, Fred Bals, enjoying working on a future episode of Dreamtime ... cheers!