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Philosophically speaking
Whilst the general gist of my days tends to be the mundane and ordinary, the routine and necessary, or even the vaguely exciting, I'm quite well aware that special things are happeneing all the time. To some, there are births, marriages, deaths, promotions, changes in direction, or new kittens. To others, a different TV show, what Ruth did with ( Read more... ) -
Covent Garden goodness
On our last day of Morgan spiffyness, we dropped off the car and consoled ourselves with a visit to Covent Garden. There we saw a couple of sets but waited specifically to see Bowjangles. Where ZHL tends to be a movable feast of session musicians (and - let me say - a damned good feast at that), Bowjangles are a team of four with panache.
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Support your local frostfox
The Trafalgar Square fourth plinth (One and Other) project http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ has a special guest star on Thursday 3rd September 13:00 to 14:00. A certain Ms Sue M (frostfox ) will be instructing us all in belly-dancing. Now, I've been to a great number of conventions where frostfox was doing a belly-dancing tutorial, but never managed to attend. I'm ( Read more... ) -
A fortnight
A frackin' fortnight since the PC died. Slow, painful recovery - helped by good friends with good advice - now appears resolved. Normal service will be resumed once I've recovered. -
Eclipse of the Century report - Days 3 & 4
We woke early on Wednesday morning to a leisurly breakfast at the hotel and a read of the newspapers. After checking we'd got everything, we checked out of the hotel and caught the hoppa to terminal 4 at Heathrow and joined the check-in queue. While queueing, we asked after possible upgrades and decided that, for a 12 hour flight, it was worth the ( Read more... ) -
Eclipse of the Century - Days 1 & 2 of holiday
Monday was a day of finalising the packing, taking The Bloke's car for a check-up, me going for a relaxing facial and spending the evening with a meal and glass of wine. Everything had been checked and double checked. The bags had been weighed by the simple expediancy of weighing The Bloke on the bathroom scales then asking him to pick up each case ( Read more... ) -
Eclipse of The Century
This entry is to create a marker for my reports on the Eclipse of the Century trip of the last fortnight. I plan to write a number of small entries with pictures (with and without cut-tags). This series is not friends-locked.
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X factor in "woman sings" shocker! - News at ten
Just in case no-one else on your flist has already mentioned it, a lady from oop north was entertaining. And I *liked* it.
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Is WIN
The Bloke is win,
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night CD SPV 085-72932 CD
Excuse me if I digress....