And in other Philip-related news:

• the cold has re-surfaced. We'll see if I can keep fighting this bugger off.
  
• finished composition. Page 18 still sucks, but I probably won't bother reharmonising it before the concert.
  
• rehearsed the thing with ROCS last night. There was only one bass and one tenor present, so a good thing my piece was originally ( Read more... )

Urgh. I have a cold; it came as a sore throat on Monday afternoon, was probably not helped by the orchestral rehearsal in the evening, and I spent half of yesterday in bed. I'm at work today, so I've gotten some stuff done, but otherwise I'M NOT HAPPY, JAN ( Read more... )

ironicshell put me up to this, but I was probably going to have a bit of a ranting outlet at some point. I might go on banging for a while, so it's best if I put everything behind an ( Read more... )

And in other wonderful news from the far reaches of Camberwell, I discovered why two different real estate companies were trying to contact me yesterday afternoon...

Our unit is going on the market. ( The gory details. )

After dining with my belle at the cramped Block Place café named after the Spanish guitarist, I wandered down a Melburnian equivalent of Knockturn Alley in search of Mr Ollivander's Wand Shop. After announcing my intention to purchase one, I was presented with several to try, which I expectantly pulled from their tubes, and waved them around the ( Read more... )

It seems I haven't updated my journal in nearly two months. However, most of February was spent in exile from the Internet; I tried as best as possible to remain in holiday mode whilst away in Western Australia, and mostly succeeded. However I did get rather twitchy and irritable with Emma, which was not good ( Read more... )

The second episode of The Daleks' Master Plan (entitled Day of Armageddon) has been returned to the BBC by a former TV engineer who saved two film cans (the other can contained an episode which already existed, The Expedition from the first Dalek story).

Clips were shown on BBC1's 7 o'clock news last night, one of which can be found hereOf course ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to me... I've booked a good local Chinese restaurant for tonight, and already I can't get the thought of Peking Duck out of my head (sorry to the vego's who might read these witterings). Evidently my inner carnivore is acting up.

Eh. Work. Eh.

( Alack! My Heart Is Sore With Pain )

How can you get a cold in January I ask you? (Probably by talking to some of the people at work who should have stayed at home, grr...)

( I don't normally do quizzes, but for this I made an exception. )