LLAMA festival all sorted. Song written and sent. Barbecue was a success.
And I have planted some seeds. Glory vines. They've been sitting in a paper bag for two years so they might not germinate.
And the pink fir apple potatoes that I planted in two big flowerpots have all sprouted. Definitely a growing day today.
Why are baby stinging nettles so vicious? Eh? and ouch!
I should have mowed the lawn..... but I played the piano instead.
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Spring Saturday
A beautiful morning. I walked the Tig around the not-quite-so-baby woodland and tried to fix the words of a song into my brain. One I hope to be singing with the Conspirators at the Lynton & Lynmouth Festival. Providing we get a chance to practice it somehow, them being up in Yorkshire and me being in Oxfordshire. Let alone the logistics of getting to Devon. I am sure it will sort itself out....hopefully..
Right this minute I am waiting for my daughter to possibly arrive. My son and his wife are having a farewell barbecue before they set off on their travels around the canals of England for as long as it takes them..... So theNeff and I will be joining them and their friends in glorious Cropredy. And it looks like they've picked the nicest day for a barbecue.
So I wait...... and delete all those emails from the lovely people who want me to help them move money around or buy shoes or watches or drugs......
Think I'll have a biscuit.
Jude
P.S I said these would be 'witterings'. Was I right? Yes.
Right this minute I am waiting for my daughter to possibly arrive. My son and his wife are having a farewell barbecue before they set off on their travels around the canals of England for as long as it takes them..... So theNeff and I will be joining them and their friends in glorious Cropredy. And it looks like they've picked the nicest day for a barbecue.
So I wait...... and delete all those emails from the lovely people who want me to help them move money around or buy shoes or watches or drugs......
Think I'll have a biscuit.
Jude
P.S I said these would be 'witterings'. Was I right? Yes.
Friday, 25 April 2008
Friday morning
The piano tuner came yesterday. My poor old piano that I love and have owned for 30 years is about a semitone flat. That's because I didn't have it tuned for (ahem!) 10 years and when it was last tuned six months ago, it was so flat that it couldn't be brought up to concert pitch in one go.
In the last six months it has been gradually de-tuning itself again so it needed to be sorted out quite badly. It's now in tune (still a semitone down though) and will hopefully stay that way for 6 months when hopefully it can be tuned up again.
Well that's fairly boring isn't it?
What is more interesting, is that Enchanted Garden is be issued again soon and I hope that it will be more widely available than it was before.
And even more interesting is that last weekend, I got to meet the two people who will be collaborating with, arranging and producing my next album, Alistair Murphy and Tim Bowness.
Tim Bowness, of course, is half of No-Man with Steven Wilson and they have a new album released next month and has worked with many fine artists including Richard Barbieri, No-Sound and Markus Reuter/Centrezoon.
Alistair Murphy,(Half Life) is a writer, performer and collaborator with Tim and with Terry Stamp (Third World War).
(Hope I've done those blue clicky things right....)
Anyway I plied them with 2 different sorts of tea and jam tarts and recorded some vocals for them to take away. Always very strange meeting people that you've only been talking to by email and even stranger to be singing to them in my house. But it was fine and there were many giggles and jokings and natterings.
Tiggy the ancient greyhound lay around amongst the cables and feet in the contortionist positions that only greyhounds can sleep in. She is old and occaisionally rather pongy, but one has to ignore that kind of thing......
Right. That'll do for now. More later
In the last six months it has been gradually de-tuning itself again so it needed to be sorted out quite badly. It's now in tune (still a semitone down though) and will hopefully stay that way for 6 months when hopefully it can be tuned up again.
Well that's fairly boring isn't it?
What is more interesting, is that Enchanted Garden is be issued again soon and I hope that it will be more widely available than it was before.
And even more interesting is that last weekend, I got to meet the two people who will be collaborating with, arranging and producing my next album, Alistair Murphy and Tim Bowness.
Tim Bowness, of course, is half of No-Man with Steven Wilson and they have a new album released next month and has worked with many fine artists including Richard Barbieri, No-Sound and Markus Reuter/Centrezoon.
Alistair Murphy,(Half Life) is a writer, performer and collaborator with Tim and with Terry Stamp (Third World War).
(Hope I've done those blue clicky things right....)
Anyway I plied them with 2 different sorts of tea and jam tarts and recorded some vocals for them to take away. Always very strange meeting people that you've only been talking to by email and even stranger to be singing to them in my house. But it was fine and there were many giggles and jokings and natterings.
Tiggy the ancient greyhound lay around amongst the cables and feet in the contortionist positions that only greyhounds can sleep in. She is old and occaisionally rather pongy, but one has to ignore that kind of thing......
Right. That'll do for now. More later
Monday, 21 April 2008
Right then, what have I gone and done now...?
It's 7.45 pm and I have just decided to start writing my own blog.
Whether this is a good idea or not, remains to be seen...
Whether this is a good idea or not, remains to be seen...
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