random acts of senseless beauty

… in the pouring rain. Going where the weather suits my clothes.
Having just got back online I’m now off.
I’m going on holiday. To Sri Lanka. For Two Whole Weeks! Going to stay with my friends Jo & Duv who moved there about 8 weeks ago (click back for photos of leaving [...]

We’re back!
more later…

Today be National Talk Like A Pirate Day me hearty’s. Get yerselves to this here shwash-buckling websoit, and find thee a pirate name! Garr!
Mad Anne Flint: Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like [...]

… that I get such a kick out of days like yesterday.
Ken’s Festival, or to give it it’s proper title The Thames Festival has got so much bigger over the 5 or so years that it’s been running. I remember going to the first one with Karen, getting corn-on-the-cob stuck (for days) in our [...]

why am I so tired?
answer on a postcard to…

This morning at Clapham Junction station I was accosted by a very friendly, giant pig and handed a rather cute squishy version of himself.

I haven’t had time to check out the webstite it was promoting!
According to the wonderful Penny, last week sometime there were two 8ft meercats in Hallam St reception at Broadcasting House [...]

I’m so sleepy and I’m not really sure why. I haven’t had that little sleep, certainly not an enormous amount less than usual, yet the ache in my bones increases with each day. Here’s to a holiday in 10 days time.
Monday was all about cricket. Screens on in every room in the [...]

I can’t stop listening to Elbow.
I’m also blown away by Guy’s lyrics… they’re so clever and rhytmically tight they could be poetry. Or Eminem.
Here’s Forget Myself.
They’re pacing Piccadilly in packs again
And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain
The suns had enough and the simmering sky
Has the heave and the hue of a [...]

Come on fellas.

There’s nothing that sums up the wonderful silliness of the British than the Last Night Of The Proms… and more-so Proms In The Park.
20,000 idiots standing in Hyde Park, waving flags and singing patriotic songs at the top of our voices, whilst drinking wine and eating Sainsbury’s chicken wings IN THE POURING RAIN!

Dad and my [...]

It’s been an interesting couple of days…
Elbow in the Hub at work. Blinding. Even with the biggest hangovers of their career. Their new album Leaders Of The Free World is a MUST. Gar? Geoffy? GET IT! You can wallow in it.
Lammo’s still sick so we’ve had a couple of [...]

I know this has done the rounds… but I love it so…

For only the second time since April… tonight I ran. I’m not sure how far, as our A-Z with the measured piece of string by which we judge distances has gone walkies, but I was out for about 50 minutes. I guess at my unfit-pace that it’ll be between 3.5 and 4 miles.
I
Feel
Gooood

I was going to come straight after work tonight and chill; have an early night.
Then Steve played a track on the show by a new band called Umlaut. Another young Sheffield band, who’ve played only a handful of gigs – but the single Wintercoat is coming out on Fantastic Plastic and is really very [...]

All summer on the show we’ve had the totally lovely Will Champion and Guy Berryman from Coldplay acting as our reporters; calling in each week from their tour and letting us know what they’ve been up to.
Guy has been charged with buying us tack from service stations/tourist traps, and Will has been sent record shopping, [...]

Monday was a great day.
Nice things happened that made me smile.
The cold was pretty much gone by Sunday night, which was a big relief, and it looks like I got off lightly as Lammo’s still suffering big time.
I’ve spent some time adding a bunch of Greenbelt photos into the hard drive, but won’t have time [...]

Damnb dat Labbo wid his pesky gerbs.
Dose bunged. Head spidding. Te’prature up. Bed.
*sniff*
but for your edtertainbet here’s sompting dice about Gree’belt frob the Local Paper.
**edit – link dow sorted. thanks Johd**

Up in Sheffield with work… We’ve just finished the show from Backstage at the Leadmill and as I type I can hear Lammo downstairs introduing the first band, The Long Blondes.
Still to come The Kills and, my top band of the year Arcade Fire, who seem on pretty good form (i.e. more than mono-syllabic, and [...]