Sunday, August 17, 2008

Hiatus Over

I'm back. Been a while, been busy, very busy. Since that post below, we went to Paris for a weekend, stripped out a kitchen, built a kitchen, got a new motor, went to London for a week, had Rediski and boy up for a few days although we had to go camping in the rain and therefore left them to their own devices, and am now preparing to go to Spain next Saturday for a week on account of I'm going to be old(ish). We also caught that gig below with Reidski which greatly exceeded my meagre expectations. We thought we were going to get the entirety of Surrealistic Pillow, which in fact we didn't we did however get a marvellous night of entertainment where they played huge chunks of it and also huge chunks of loads of my other favourite Jefferson stuff. We had the most amazing vantage point standing just next to the monitors directly in front of Paul Kantner. thewife thought he was shorter than he used to be, I dunno though. The last time I saw them was an eternity ago at Knebworth and I was so far back I have no idea how big he was. Anyways him and David Freiberg and indeed the rest of the band were absolutely spot on. Still politically sound as fuck. Loved it.

I loved to the rest of our London sojourn which included much dining out and in. We had a marvellous 5 course meal at the Tate Britain "Late at the Tate" night with Father Bell, partner Jo and their incredibly convivial and funny Brazillian and Czech friends. 5 Courses, 5 different wines, great night indeed. We also went to Thomasina Miers' Wahacca which was both incredibly inexpensive and incredibly good, with Jane and Reidski. All that and a couple of trips to Borough Market thrown in for good measure.

Also there's been the start of the football season and a last minute season ticket purchase, which on evidence of the first game may prove to be a sound investment.

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