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Don't know if anybody will have come across John Martyn before, I know I hadn't until a couple of months back when there was a documentary on about his life which my Dad had recorded and he sat me down saying "watch this"

Small Hours just seems to be one of those songs I keep coming back to, well worth watching, or at least listening too if you can't get past the 70's Sinbad the Sailor look he seems to have going on in this clip.

Iaido was good last night, Keith the usual sensei -- and the only person I know that can switch betweem fluent japanese and a broad Yorkshire accent -- was up some scafolding reroofing his house which meant an evening of free practice and a rare chance to work through each of the 12 Seitei Kata one after another, before moving onto a couple of the old form Koryu.

As Keith reminds us so often that we're tempted to get it on a t-shirt for him each kata should be one fluid motion with changes of pace and I'm definitely starting to see the transitions smooth between it all.

Got into an interesting conversation with one of the guys there through when I found out he does Kyudo (Japanese archery) and is heading over to the International Seminar in Hungary in a couple of weeks.