Long time no blogging

Well, I've been too busy. Terry told me to keep her up to date so here goes.

Best event of this week was most definitely The Hold Steady at Manchester Academy. Rich Eatough alerted me to this band a while back and they are great. Go find them on YouTube and then go buy their Boys and Girls in America CD as it's killer. Seriously good. They are my favourite band of all time at the moment. Great that RB could get there too as she was working near Manchester, and we had a bit of adventure in Halifax trying to find her hotel after the gig, just for added fun.

What else has been happening? Oh, yes - LMC (Leeds Mountaineering Club) annual dinner in Conniston last weekend. Got out on the mountain bike for the first time in what feels like forever - round the Grizedale forest trails. Top stuff it was too and we had the best of what was a ropey weekend for weather - out of the wind, and their was no rain to speak of. Sunday was sunny, even. Rach is coming on so well on the bike and she did her first trails back in Grizedale on the Sunday. I think she suprised herself by enjoying it so much on the firetrail descents - and once she'd been shown where granny ring was she got up all the climbs too. Top girl. She's hooked. Hurrah. She got the part in the play she was after and is now rehearsing 3 evenings a week for the next 2 months. What a wierd hobby... :-)

Saw Scottie for the first time in ages the other weekend which was great. He seems on good form. Hopefully going to organise a Liverpool Saturday night out meet up very soon. Met mum and dad in Liverpool yesterday actually for lunch (was working over there) which was most pleasant.

Kids are on good form. Jamie is 5 now and got a Sony PSP game thingy for his birthday which he loves to death. I probably got a spacehopper for my 5th birthday. The kids of today, eh? Holly is fine as ever - she's seven soon and also growing fast.

Plans:
Week biking in Les Gets/Morzine mid June with the Reading crew.
Trowbridge folk festival, possibly.
Week with kids 'down south'.
Windermere marathon (I will be asking for sponsorship).
London at RB's posh new flat beginning of April.
Scotland at Easter (Glencoe/Fort William area).
Forthcoming gigs: The Feeling, Hayseed Dixie, Joe Satriani, Bruce Springsteen.