I'm not using this blog at all of late, and I guess should do more. especially as we've just been cycling round Northern Ireland and this would the the ideal place to post a write up of the experience... I'll see if I can get round to that.
Lots of concerts around, and this weekend Rach and I are off to london to see Bruce Springsteen at the Hyde Park Calling weekender 'festival'. (Also featured are The Killers on Friday and Neil Young Saturday.) It's also Glastonbury this weekend and Springsteen is gracing them with his presence. At least this means he'll be in the telly as BBC will be covering that festival. Am also seeing Dave Matthews Band on Thursday at Brixton Academy which to be honest is even more of an exciting prospect than seeing The Boss in a park. The only other time I have visited Brixton Academy was with the Uni crew when we did a jolly over there from Cardiff to see the Spin Doctors. This involved driving across and leaving the car with RB's mates "The Jesus Army" and stopping at Jane Thorning's house in Streatham. The Spin Doctors were fantastic, and I rememeber the venue as being great too.
Also on the agenda for this weekend's London visit is Derren Brown in the West End. Another 'must see' artist for me, and one of my heroes to be honest. So, all in all an exciting weekend in prospect.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
To download or not?
So the new Tragically Hip album has leaked to the t'internet, a couple of weeks before it's official release date. Having pre-ordered the album from Maple Music I do feel it's within my rights to fire up uTorrent and download the songs. For my own private use, right, and as long as I don't upload it further then my conscience is clear... Hmm. Well, to be honest it's just good to be able to hear the new stuff and leaked albums is I guess the curse of the internet.
The new material? The polished alt-country sound of the already released lead-off track Morning Moon was a big clue. I can already hear the old school fans whining that Bob Rock has watered down the Hip and that they are not as 'clean' and 'vital' as they once were, and that they need to find a producer who will compliment them. Now this is a band who have been making great albums for over 20 years and you'd think that fans would credit them with knowing what they are doing. It makes me laugh that there are fans who are against a band progressing or evolving in any way. I reckon half the fun of a new Hip album is getting over the changes and strangeness and knowing that repeated listens will always reap rewards.
The new material? The polished alt-country sound of the already released lead-off track Morning Moon was a big clue. I can already hear the old school fans whining that Bob Rock has watered down the Hip and that they are not as 'clean' and 'vital' as they once were, and that they need to find a producer who will compliment them. Now this is a band who have been making great albums for over 20 years and you'd think that fans would credit them with knowing what they are doing. It makes me laugh that there are fans who are against a band progressing or evolving in any way. I reckon half the fun of a new Hip album is getting over the changes and strangeness and knowing that repeated listens will always reap rewards.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The price of a toasted tea cake
Yeah, so one single swimming session with the new regime is the sum total so far. I've kept out of the pool because I am realy ill. Well... not quite. Rach has been coughing all week and I had the dreaded sore throat Tuesday, which usually is the sign of the onset of something for me. So far so good though, but being careful.
The weekend was spent with friends in a rather lovely converted mill in the village of West Burton, Swaledale. A more picture postcard Yorkshire Dales village you could not find I reckon, and in a beautiful location. Great company too (John, Caron, Catherine and Bill) and some of us did a fun walk over to Castle Bolton on Saturday - Catherine and Bill opted for shopping in Richmond. I'd promised the intrepid walkers a tea shop at the castle but there was no sign, and we had to wander across to the adjacent village to find one. Shockingly, at the lone tea shop. toasted tea cakes were £2.20 each. That is absolutely out of order. Annoyingly the adjacent village pub stopped doing food at 2pm, and when we got there it was ten past, and enquiries revealed that no way could we expect to be served with any food at such a late hour - oh no. So, as these were the only two options open to us the tea shop it was. To be honest I was all prepared to neck another breakfast bar and walk back to Aysgarth rather than frequent an establishment charging such extortionate rates for it's toasted snacks. However, I was talked into it by John who was obviously desperate as he offered to get a round of tea cakes in. We did all snub the tea cakes in the end and went for sandwiches which, whilst still a tad pricey, seemed a more sensible bet. And after half an hour or so they arrived. I mean, how bloody long does it take to cook a bit of chicken, warm some beef and dollop out a bit of coleslaw? The couple on an adjacent table had the same wait for tea cakes, only to be told on delivery of their food that there was only one tea cake left and 'here's a scone instead'. Blimey. How we laughed. We did indeed laugh a great deal all weekend all in all.
The meal on Saturday night was a multi chef special - Rach did starters, Catherine the main and John the pudding. Bit of an aubergine nightmare for me as the main ingredient of both the starter and main courses was, coincidentally, said vegetable on which I am not that keen. Then the afters was bread and butter pudding which I don't really like at all. Now, I must stress that I am not that fussy an eater so to find fault all three courses was a bit of a disappointment to be honest. Still, the custard was nice!
The weekend was ended a tad abruptly by a phone call late Sunday evening from John's daughter who it seemed had suffered some kind of assault at home after having been out drinking all day. Not great news. John and Caron quickly packed up and left, and to be honest all did not turn out well for said daughter, but that particular story would be left for someone else to tell.
Meanwhile, plenty of tickets on sale this week: Michael Jackson doing 50 nights at the 02 arena in London. That's 50 lots of 20,000 people at between £50 and £75 a ticket. He must be broke or something? Going to give these shows a miss, but they are selling like crazy and eBay prices are through the roof already.
Cornbury on sale also, and I think we'll do this 2 day festival in July. Gonna have to bin the Ripon triathlon top go but hey, who really wantd to swin in a river eh? Pretenders and Dodgy are amongst the acts on the bill. And finally The Hold Steady have announced some small dates in England in may around the support slots they are doing for Counting Crows in the arenas. And they are to play Leeds Cockpit. Life's not complete unless I have a Hold Steady ticket! We also have Brakes coming up in the Cockpit which should be fun.
The weekend was spent with friends in a rather lovely converted mill in the village of West Burton, Swaledale. A more picture postcard Yorkshire Dales village you could not find I reckon, and in a beautiful location. Great company too (John, Caron, Catherine and Bill) and some of us did a fun walk over to Castle Bolton on Saturday - Catherine and Bill opted for shopping in Richmond. I'd promised the intrepid walkers a tea shop at the castle but there was no sign, and we had to wander across to the adjacent village to find one. Shockingly, at the lone tea shop. toasted tea cakes were £2.20 each. That is absolutely out of order. Annoyingly the adjacent village pub stopped doing food at 2pm, and when we got there it was ten past, and enquiries revealed that no way could we expect to be served with any food at such a late hour - oh no. So, as these were the only two options open to us the tea shop it was. To be honest I was all prepared to neck another breakfast bar and walk back to Aysgarth rather than frequent an establishment charging such extortionate rates for it's toasted snacks. However, I was talked into it by John who was obviously desperate as he offered to get a round of tea cakes in. We did all snub the tea cakes in the end and went for sandwiches which, whilst still a tad pricey, seemed a more sensible bet. And after half an hour or so they arrived. I mean, how bloody long does it take to cook a bit of chicken, warm some beef and dollop out a bit of coleslaw? The couple on an adjacent table had the same wait for tea cakes, only to be told on delivery of their food that there was only one tea cake left and 'here's a scone instead'. Blimey. How we laughed. We did indeed laugh a great deal all weekend all in all.
The meal on Saturday night was a multi chef special - Rach did starters, Catherine the main and John the pudding. Bit of an aubergine nightmare for me as the main ingredient of both the starter and main courses was, coincidentally, said vegetable on which I am not that keen. Then the afters was bread and butter pudding which I don't really like at all. Now, I must stress that I am not that fussy an eater so to find fault all three courses was a bit of a disappointment to be honest. Still, the custard was nice!
The weekend was ended a tad abruptly by a phone call late Sunday evening from John's daughter who it seemed had suffered some kind of assault at home after having been out drinking all day. Not great news. John and Caron quickly packed up and left, and to be honest all did not turn out well for said daughter, but that particular story would be left for someone else to tell.
Meanwhile, plenty of tickets on sale this week: Michael Jackson doing 50 nights at the 02 arena in London. That's 50 lots of 20,000 people at between £50 and £75 a ticket. He must be broke or something? Going to give these shows a miss, but they are selling like crazy and eBay prices are through the roof already.
Cornbury on sale also, and I think we'll do this 2 day festival in July. Gonna have to bin the Ripon triathlon top go but hey, who really wantd to swin in a river eh? Pretenders and Dodgy are amongst the acts on the bill. And finally The Hold Steady have announced some small dates in England in may around the support slots they are doing for Counting Crows in the arenas. And they are to play Leeds Cockpit. Life's not complete unless I have a Hold Steady ticket! We also have Brakes coming up in the Cockpit which should be fun.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Total Immersion lesson 1
My copy of “Total Immersion” – ‘The revolutionary way to swim better, faster and easier’ arrived from Amazon yesterday and I tried out the first two drills in the pool this lunch time.
There’s a lot of different drills and lessons and whatnot I’m going to need to perfect should I actually stay the course of this book and whether I have the patience to go through with it we shall see. But, having read through the opening chapters explaining the TI philosophy I can see where it’s going, and it looks rather good - so am going to try to stick with it.
Drills 1 and 2 are about finding balance.
My physique (lean, long legs, muscular) had already been classed as “a sinker” by the book which was not good news. However, it turns out I can float. I think I did ‘hide my head’ and ‘pressed my buoy’ and did indeed feel really rather relaxed just gently kicking my way up and down on my back with my hands at the sides, and them doing the change onto each side in turn to find the ‘sweet spot’. Flat on my back my legs do drop and I do have to kick a little to keep them up (and, err, yes I did go backwards at first) but it was actually all rather pleasant, as promised by my main man Terry Laughlin.
Bit dull though just floating along for the whole session so I have decided to combine the basics with doing slow lengths going for an improved stroke system (taking tips from the TI book). Stretching out and gliding, and also concentrating on lifting my hips up. My SPL (Strokes per length) of a 25m pool has always been around 30, but concentrating just on these two things it immediately drops to 24, and that’s going slow. It’s hard work to adjust though and I am taking a few breaths rest at the end of each length.
One thing that will keep me going, and always has with front crawl is the absolute technicality of it, which means I’m never bored swimming. Maybe there's enough to keep me amused with these TI drills and I can break myself out of bad, self-taught habits and get to be a super-efficient swimmer?
There’s a lot of different drills and lessons and whatnot I’m going to need to perfect should I actually stay the course of this book and whether I have the patience to go through with it we shall see. But, having read through the opening chapters explaining the TI philosophy I can see where it’s going, and it looks rather good - so am going to try to stick with it.
Drills 1 and 2 are about finding balance.
My physique (lean, long legs, muscular) had already been classed as “a sinker” by the book which was not good news. However, it turns out I can float. I think I did ‘hide my head’ and ‘pressed my buoy’ and did indeed feel really rather relaxed just gently kicking my way up and down on my back with my hands at the sides, and them doing the change onto each side in turn to find the ‘sweet spot’. Flat on my back my legs do drop and I do have to kick a little to keep them up (and, err, yes I did go backwards at first) but it was actually all rather pleasant, as promised by my main man Terry Laughlin.
Bit dull though just floating along for the whole session so I have decided to combine the basics with doing slow lengths going for an improved stroke system (taking tips from the TI book). Stretching out and gliding, and also concentrating on lifting my hips up. My SPL (Strokes per length) of a 25m pool has always been around 30, but concentrating just on these two things it immediately drops to 24, and that’s going slow. It’s hard work to adjust though and I am taking a few breaths rest at the end of each length.
One thing that will keep me going, and always has with front crawl is the absolute technicality of it, which means I’m never bored swimming. Maybe there's enough to keep me amused with these TI drills and I can break myself out of bad, self-taught habits and get to be a super-efficient swimmer?
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Diary 4th March
Monday 2nd March
Weekend with the kids was fun. We didn’t go far and didn’t do much, but everyone still had a good couple of days. Visited the kitchen place on Saturday and finalized the choices we had to make: door shapes, colours and worktop. Should look great. We have to choose tiles and flooring still though. Ended up wandering in Roundhay Park, feeding birds etc. Saturday night Rach and I finished off season 5 of The Wire. This season perhaps hadn’t been quite as good as previous ones, although it was still great. The last two episodes however were amazing, and they brought it all back full circle: same as it ever was. Nice that Bubbles got a happy ending, and McNulty… sort of. Omar had been shockingly killed off a couple of episodes previous.
Sunday we’d promised Holly we’d go to the Guiseley Play Barn so we did that. The Play Barn has had a bit of a change round which is an improvement and it was v.busy. We got evangelicised by some lady asking if we’d like to take/send Holly on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. She was completely out of order in that she presumed that H needed help and that she and her pilgrimage should be the method to provide said assistance. On questioning she stated that it was definitley not a miracle cure kind of trip, but was a bit vague as to what it was other than this. (It's Lourdes, right - what else do they hope for there?) She was also annoyingly persistent and I suprised myself by remaining polite, even when she handed me her phone number and web site address after numerous 'no thanks'. Ho hum. It was interesting that Holly obviously didn’t like her at all: she can spot a wierdo a mile off! Holly actually proved quite an attraction: a few people came and spoke to us/her while we were there. It's interesting to see how the folk who have disabled kids are just comfortable and address her directly. Others need to say something for some reason and then either talk to her like she's retarded or don't address her at all and just speak to me. Kids will just stare at her - we had a couple in the sand pit who were almost nose to nose, gawping. H ignores them, and in the end I have to say something. F*ck off would be a bit harsh to a 5 year old, admittedly.
We finished off again in the park and Jamie had a whiz up and down the grass banks on his bike: he’s getting pretty brave on that thing now – next we’ll need to get home one with gears. I had to do the same grass banks pushing Holly in her chair which was hard work. Decent sunny weather so the park was very busy.
Got a contact from Nikki Eastwood (now Nicky something un pronounceable as she’s married to a Dutch guy) via Facebook over the weekend which was nice. She’s still doing vet thing – training animal nurses – and lives in Lincoln.
U2’s new CD comes out today and they are all over the media: BBC seemed to get them all weekend with a couple of live performances of new songs, including one from the roof of BBC broadcasting house. Have had the new stuff for a couple of weeks now (it was leaked) and it’s very, very good. A grower though.
Wednesday 4th March
Rich Eatough emailed yesterday and proposed that he and I do a cycle tour this year. Hurrah. Ireland seems to be the popular choice, so we will work towards sorting something out for June maybe. There’s some decent looking Sustrans routes over there so we should find some nice stuff. I like the look of the “North West Trail” myself.
Looking forward to this weekend as we are off staying in the Dales with John, Karen, Bill and Katherine in a cottage we’ve booked. Up in the North East Dales, quite near Reeth, Richmond etc. Was thinking of taking the mountain bike but the weather forecast is looking pretty lousy at the moment so we shall see.
Jamie started kick boxing classes Monday night in Horsforth. I hope he manages to stick it out longer than he did the tennis as Liz seems to have signed him up and paid for 6 months as well as a load of kit. He does seem very enthusiastic and I guess that learning a ‘martial art’ can only do him good. First punch on the nose he gets he'll be out the door though...
Weekend with the kids was fun. We didn’t go far and didn’t do much, but everyone still had a good couple of days. Visited the kitchen place on Saturday and finalized the choices we had to make: door shapes, colours and worktop. Should look great. We have to choose tiles and flooring still though. Ended up wandering in Roundhay Park, feeding birds etc. Saturday night Rach and I finished off season 5 of The Wire. This season perhaps hadn’t been quite as good as previous ones, although it was still great. The last two episodes however were amazing, and they brought it all back full circle: same as it ever was. Nice that Bubbles got a happy ending, and McNulty… sort of. Omar had been shockingly killed off a couple of episodes previous.
Sunday we’d promised Holly we’d go to the Guiseley Play Barn so we did that. The Play Barn has had a bit of a change round which is an improvement and it was v.busy. We got evangelicised by some lady asking if we’d like to take/send Holly on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. She was completely out of order in that she presumed that H needed help and that she and her pilgrimage should be the method to provide said assistance. On questioning she stated that it was definitley not a miracle cure kind of trip, but was a bit vague as to what it was other than this. (It's Lourdes, right - what else do they hope for there?) She was also annoyingly persistent and I suprised myself by remaining polite, even when she handed me her phone number and web site address after numerous 'no thanks'. Ho hum. It was interesting that Holly obviously didn’t like her at all: she can spot a wierdo a mile off! Holly actually proved quite an attraction: a few people came and spoke to us/her while we were there. It's interesting to see how the folk who have disabled kids are just comfortable and address her directly. Others need to say something for some reason and then either talk to her like she's retarded or don't address her at all and just speak to me. Kids will just stare at her - we had a couple in the sand pit who were almost nose to nose, gawping. H ignores them, and in the end I have to say something. F*ck off would be a bit harsh to a 5 year old, admittedly.
We finished off again in the park and Jamie had a whiz up and down the grass banks on his bike: he’s getting pretty brave on that thing now – next we’ll need to get home one with gears. I had to do the same grass banks pushing Holly in her chair which was hard work. Decent sunny weather so the park was very busy.
Got a contact from Nikki Eastwood (now Nicky something un pronounceable as she’s married to a Dutch guy) via Facebook over the weekend which was nice. She’s still doing vet thing – training animal nurses – and lives in Lincoln.
U2’s new CD comes out today and they are all over the media: BBC seemed to get them all weekend with a couple of live performances of new songs, including one from the roof of BBC broadcasting house. Have had the new stuff for a couple of weeks now (it was leaked) and it’s very, very good. A grower though.
Wednesday 4th March
Rich Eatough emailed yesterday and proposed that he and I do a cycle tour this year. Hurrah. Ireland seems to be the popular choice, so we will work towards sorting something out for June maybe. There’s some decent looking Sustrans routes over there so we should find some nice stuff. I like the look of the “North West Trail” myself.
Looking forward to this weekend as we are off staying in the Dales with John, Karen, Bill and Katherine in a cottage we’ve booked. Up in the North East Dales, quite near Reeth, Richmond etc. Was thinking of taking the mountain bike but the weather forecast is looking pretty lousy at the moment so we shall see.
Jamie started kick boxing classes Monday night in Horsforth. I hope he manages to stick it out longer than he did the tennis as Liz seems to have signed him up and paid for 6 months as well as a load of kit. He does seem very enthusiastic and I guess that learning a ‘martial art’ can only do him good. First punch on the nose he gets he'll be out the door though...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I stopped doing this blogging this as, really, I have nothing THAT interesting to say. I always thought how cool it would be to blog away on the internet with witty comments and controversial views about the arts, the state of the planet; the shape we are in or whatever. All in all it would be rather good to sound in any way informative or amusing. However, it seems that I am not really that amusing or controversial, and even if I was I don’t think I am a good enough writer to get all my clever thoughts and funny insights across. Reading a couple of Danny Wallace’s books has made me realise that my future does not lie in creative writing.
Having said all that – here’s what’s going on, late Feb 2009.
Life consists of work, Rachel and the kids, and then the other stuff I can fit in round all those basic commitments.
Work: boring. Enough said. Working for Arcadia at the moment (contracted to them). Actually today there’s been an announcement that Arcadia will merge with BHS so this may throw up something interesting in the coming months.
The kids: Two wonderful little people who’s company I enjoy immensely. I love their weekends with us and I miss them when there’s a few days not being with them. Like now: I’ve not seen them since last Thursday as it was my weekend ‘off’. I am round at theirs tonight though. (Holly is going to Brownies this evening for the first time and is apparently very excited about this prospect.) Jamie at the moment is discovering the delights of computers and computer games (via a Wii). It’s amazing (frightening!) how quick he picks things up. They are at ours this weekend. Nothing planned as yet, but we always think of something.
Rachel: We live together now and it, well, just seems right. Few issues of disagreement; no arguments and a lot of general peace and harmony. It was a rather fortuitous thing my bumping into her and I am a lucky guy.
Other stuff: Lots of it. I am pleased that I do manage to pack quite a lot of ‘other stuff’ into my existence: The headings of outdoors; concerts; fitness; friends; music; reading and films would I think cover it. The events calendar is looking pleasingly full for the next few months and summer holidays (with kids) have been booked in and plans are afoot. The “every other weekend” system with the kids does mean that things can be booked up well in advance, and this year is working out well with several events falling on weekends when Liz has the kids. We’ve just booked tickets for Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews Band in Hyde Park at the end of June for instance.
We were in London this weekend just gone visiting Rach Bishop (RB). RV was seeing mate Hilary on Friday who was directing a play, so we’d booked to go down and stop at RB’s. It’s always lovely to hook up with her and we had a great day Saturday including a fabulous morning run (RB and me) along the banks of the Thames (before the pesky tourists came out and clogged the place up). After meeting up with RV and Hills for eats and a drink the remainder of the day was spent wandering along the South Bank. Marvellous. RB was off skiing early Sunday morning. RV and I met Scottie who’d come in on the train from Hertford, and spent the afternoon doing more Thames banks wandering; more eating and drinking before getting the train home in the evening. All in all a fine weekend.
And that’s how it goes. Not such a bad life I guess all in all. Hope this was interesting.
Having said all that – here’s what’s going on, late Feb 2009.
Life consists of work, Rachel and the kids, and then the other stuff I can fit in round all those basic commitments.
Work: boring. Enough said. Working for Arcadia at the moment (contracted to them). Actually today there’s been an announcement that Arcadia will merge with BHS so this may throw up something interesting in the coming months.
The kids: Two wonderful little people who’s company I enjoy immensely. I love their weekends with us and I miss them when there’s a few days not being with them. Like now: I’ve not seen them since last Thursday as it was my weekend ‘off’. I am round at theirs tonight though. (Holly is going to Brownies this evening for the first time and is apparently very excited about this prospect.) Jamie at the moment is discovering the delights of computers and computer games (via a Wii). It’s amazing (frightening!) how quick he picks things up. They are at ours this weekend. Nothing planned as yet, but we always think of something.
Rachel: We live together now and it, well, just seems right. Few issues of disagreement; no arguments and a lot of general peace and harmony. It was a rather fortuitous thing my bumping into her and I am a lucky guy.
Other stuff: Lots of it. I am pleased that I do manage to pack quite a lot of ‘other stuff’ into my existence: The headings of outdoors; concerts; fitness; friends; music; reading and films would I think cover it. The events calendar is looking pleasingly full for the next few months and summer holidays (with kids) have been booked in and plans are afoot. The “every other weekend” system with the kids does mean that things can be booked up well in advance, and this year is working out well with several events falling on weekends when Liz has the kids. We’ve just booked tickets for Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews Band in Hyde Park at the end of June for instance.
We were in London this weekend just gone visiting Rach Bishop (RB). RV was seeing mate Hilary on Friday who was directing a play, so we’d booked to go down and stop at RB’s. It’s always lovely to hook up with her and we had a great day Saturday including a fabulous morning run (RB and me) along the banks of the Thames (before the pesky tourists came out and clogged the place up). After meeting up with RV and Hills for eats and a drink the remainder of the day was spent wandering along the South Bank. Marvellous. RB was off skiing early Sunday morning. RV and I met Scottie who’d come in on the train from Hertford, and spent the afternoon doing more Thames banks wandering; more eating and drinking before getting the train home in the evening. All in all a fine weekend.
And that’s how it goes. Not such a bad life I guess all in all. Hope this was interesting.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Spring forward.
Saw Hayseed Dixie live last night at Leeds Rio's. I have been meaning to catch these guys for a while now and was very pleased I did so. This is a genuine US bluegrass band who caught on a few years back after doing an album of ac/dc covers (hence Hayseed Dixie... geddit?). They have expanded their repertiore to include many other heavy rock songs, all sort of other mad cover versions and some decent songs of their own, and so imagine if you will ... a banjo, fiddle and mandolin wielding foursome belting out the likes of Ace of Spades, War Pigs and Highway to Hell. At wharp speed. Funny and yet respectful: top musicianship, and the raw bluegrass style is somehow just right for those big rock songs. They reckon they are the only outfit ever to play both Download and The Cambridge folk festival, so this is a band who have seriously crossed over ... something. They drink a lot, and boy they are loud.
Holly fell over in the van today - in her wheelchair. I forgot to push the button which secures her 'seat belt' down at the front, so we pulled out of their school after I'd picked her and Jamie up and bang, she goes over backwards . Scared the life out of the both of us, but fortunately no harm done and she forgave me - eventually. Liz went to their parents' evening tonight and they are both doing really well. I always knew Holly was bright as a button but it seems Jamie is too, so that's great.
Three non Premiership teams in the FA Cup semis eh? Great stuff. Except that one of them is fecking Cardiff City.
Budget today. Only 20p or something on a packet of cigarettes? What's wrong with this government? They should have doubled the price of that shit if you ask me.
Two gigs in a week: am off to see The Feeling tomorrow in Manchester. Rich Eatough has consigned them to the pap bin, but I still reckon there's a lot of room for such tuneful lightweight stuff. Not everything has to be lo-fi and edgy. In my humble opinion.
Thought for the day: Creationism. If you believe in it in any way, please please think again as it really is utter nonsense.
Holly fell over in the van today - in her wheelchair. I forgot to push the button which secures her 'seat belt' down at the front, so we pulled out of their school after I'd picked her and Jamie up and bang, she goes over backwards . Scared the life out of the both of us, but fortunately no harm done and she forgave me - eventually. Liz went to their parents' evening tonight and they are both doing really well. I always knew Holly was bright as a button but it seems Jamie is too, so that's great.
Three non Premiership teams in the FA Cup semis eh? Great stuff. Except that one of them is fecking Cardiff City.
Budget today. Only 20p or something on a packet of cigarettes? What's wrong with this government? They should have doubled the price of that shit if you ask me.
Two gigs in a week: am off to see The Feeling tomorrow in Manchester. Rich Eatough has consigned them to the pap bin, but I still reckon there's a lot of room for such tuneful lightweight stuff. Not everything has to be lo-fi and edgy. In my humble opinion.
Thought for the day: Creationism. If you believe in it in any way, please please think again as it really is utter nonsense.
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