So I survived my week of two gigs, despite being on antibiotics to fight off the chest infection, and having what pollitesss 's chauvenist pig of a boss likes to refer to as 'ladies day' co-inciding with the first gig with the Monochrome Set.  Excellent timing, as ever.

The MSet gig wasn't really a gig as such, but a one off reunion at a private event ( Read more... )

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Did I tell you that I was going on holiday to Sweden and Denmark?  Probably not.

So I'm having my first Scandinavian holiday, mainly staying with
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Our housing situation is like an endless game of snakes and ladders, played on a board featuring a 1950s ex-council flat in Crouch End.   We moved into the flat two months ago, looking forward to the extra space and niaively believing that because the work that needed to be done to the place before we moved in would definately get done, because it ( Read more... )

On bank holiday weekend my keyboard and I went on a little holiday to Barcelona, ostensibly so that I could play a gig with Scarlet's Well, but really so that I could have a much needed weekend away, with a gig tagged onto the end of it.  It was a bit of an effort dragging the keyboard in its big flight case all the way from Crouch End to Spain on ( Read more... )

...and I don't know when I'm supposed to update this thing anymore, unless I do it in my sleep.  In the past few weeks I have ( Read more... )

In the last three months I have started a new job, found a new place to live (which I haven't moved into yet) and recorded an album with Scarlet's Well.  All of these things have been very positve in themselves, but having them all happen at once has been just a little bit stressful.  And they all deserve seperate entries about each of them, if I ( Read more... )

I found it quite facinating yesterday observing a national ritual which has absolutely no relevance to me.  I don't like Valentine's Day, I think its really naff and I generally ignore it, but that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy watching it from the outside, all these people who require a date in the calender to perform what should be a ( Read more... )

New Year's Eve saw me at my Finish friend Amy's house for a small dinner party along with her Welsh boyfriend and afew Swedish friends.  After dinner, a large contingent of Australians turned up, plus

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 My, what a year its been.  Lots of excitment, but in between the exciting bits, lots of humdrum jobs in order to bring enough money in.  I can't think of a year when I've done as many random jobs, from gardening and painting and decorating to exam invigilation and work with children.  A bit of variation does no harm though, it gave me the freedom ( Read more... )