First day..

Today was Kaydence's first day at her new nursary, which is attached to a pre-school, which makes it a big school.

Crazy blue font.

Well this is... colourful.

Hmmm.

Does the music travel?

From the middle of January to the middle of March this year, I was sailing with my Dad. This is the music we listened to on the boat.

Nina Simone
Verve Jazz Masters - Stan Getz
Astrud Gilberto - Verve Autour de Minuit
Bob Dylan - Good as I been to You / Desire
Manu Chao - Radio Bemba Sound System
John Holt
Desmond Dekker
Jimmy Cliff - The Art of Segovia
Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 1951-64
The Rolling Stones - Black & Blue
Etta James - Chess
Eric Clapton - Me and Mr Johnson
Cassandra Wilson
Norah Jones
Jacques Loussier

This is what I missed.

A tragi-comedy rendered in facebook.

Graham Moore thinks you wouldn't believe him if he said he went to a gig and experienced the lead singer singing along to his slideshow of 'A Complete History of Communism vol. 5', drawn in crayon. And then giving out his mobile numer to see who in the crowd would call first! :) 22 hours ago

Bethan Hopkins at 12:20am April 23
dude, who did you see?

Bethan Hopkins gutted, gutted, gutted. Some sort of time machine? Me not forgetting about the Jeffrey Lewis gig? That would be nice. 41 minutes ago

Graham Moore at 10:40pm April 24
Very sorry to hear, twas a gooood gig last night...

Bethan Hopkins Are you serious? I'm so jealous I could die
3 minutes ago

Graham Moore at 1:02am April 23
Jeffrey Lewis, at Scala, Kings Cross, goooood times. Supported by some guys I've never heard of; Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit". _Very_ pleasantly surprised by those guys....

This makes no sense, but its the order that it all was revealed to me, despite its noted timings. Its two separate conversations that ultimatly add up to form something that could be expressed thus;

Beth - I missed a good gig.

Graham - Yeah? I didn't. I was there, and Jeffrey Lewis sang along to his slideshow of 'A Complete History of Communism vol. 5', drawn in crayon.

Beth - Rubbish.

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I also note that I have been spelling the word 'goooood' incorrectly. I was under the impression that 2 "o's" were all that were required.
People who type like that should not be allowed to go to awesome gigs that I forget to go to. Factus.

Literally hundreds of words rhyme with 'Dougherty'

It's not often boys get songs written about them. I guess it's nice when they do, even if/ especially when it's a song written by other boys. Hark at the 'bromance. What is a band to do when it's drummer jets of to Japan for a year?

This is 'Panda' by Kimmy Yeah, performed by Kimmy Doyle, Kimmy Armstrong and Kimmy Linskill, at the Shakespear Hotel, in sunny Sheffield.

Vicky would say it was boss, but in this case it's mostly bass.

Books Update.

I am so out of date and months behind in typing up my "Books I Have Recently Read" lists. The last time I did it was before Christmas, and I can't even remember what colour scheme I settled on. Also, since then I have been in a number of different countries and updating the list in several different notebooks (including one which I am trying to ignore the fact that I have probaly lost).

Anyway, the best I can, and in no particular order, salvaged from bits of paper...

Books

Modern Ranch Living - Mark Poirier

Mulliner Nights - P.G Wodehouse

With A Strange Device - Eric Frank Russell

The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov

Living, Loving, Party Going (Three Stories) - Henry Greene

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances - Alexander McCall Smith

The Eve of St Venus - Anthony Burgess

O-Zone - Paul Theroux

Maurice - E.M Forster

Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M Forster

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov

The Crack-Up (and Other Stories) - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Him With His Foot in His Mouth (and Other Stories) - Saul Bellow

The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux

Brick Lane - Monica Ali

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Forty Stories - Dave Eggers

Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen

The Darling Buds of May - H.E Bates

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall

Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader - Edited by John Morthland.

No title for Vicky.