random acts of senseless beauty

… is the time it says in the top right hand corner.
Drinking Magners in Putney with Marky & Hamish & Anthea & Clare & Shirley/Sheila, leads to laughing, leads to singing show tunes at the bus stop, leads to Mark’s flat and three bottle of champagne and dancing and giggling and wonderful wonderful saturday night.
There [...]

Closer…

Originally uploaded by Jude Adam.

Pics from last night on Flickr… not that ace but if you’re interested!
(I’d love to just add them to the post below, but the strange thing about this version of my bloggy-maker (wordpress to those interested) is a bit rubbish [...]

It was our monthly gig with Club Fandango tonight at the Water Rats. I’ve got a few photos but I’m too tired to upload them. sorry. they’ll be here tomorrow
Black Ramps were first. Their demo and single are o.k. but they far exceeded my expectations live. Oli got it right when he said that their [...]

A photo Op too far

Originally uploaded by Jude Adam.

I never thought I’d feel sorry for Danny McNamara, or be scathing about anything to do with Samaritans, but…
Good Grief! The reason for the photo is great, a fantastic new service aimed at a demographic who [...]

Emma & Medal

Originally uploaded by Jude Adam.

Cath and I headed up to town to watch some of our more plucky friends run 26.2 miles in the cool and drizzle.
I nearly missed Ems at Canary Wharf, whilst I was standing on top of a crash barrier [...]

After lovely Sarah’s leaving do I headed up to Camden with Lammo & Ruth to do some Gig Crawling.  The Camden Crawl has been going for about 12 years now; every year pretty much every venue in Camden has a line-up of 4 or 5 bands, and the idea is that you head from one [...]

According to the font of all truth, The Sun newspaper, U.S. Passports are now being sent out with a little booklet advising citizens on acceptable behaviour when travelling abroad.

Think as big as you like but talk and act smaller. In many countries, any form of boasting is considered very rude.
Listen at least as much [...]

Met up with Mum, Dad & Cath after work and went for a curry.
My first beer in 6 weeks tasted and smelt better than I could have possibly imagined.

Blogging from my parent’s house is always strange, but this room is lovely to write in.  Originally my sister’s bedroom, it became mum’s office when Cath moved up into the loft (she’d been very naughty.  she needed to be punished. kidding.).  It’s at the back of the house and the sound of the garden come [...]

I love the way cherry blossom hangs so heavily on the branches.  It looks fecund.  which is exactly what it is I guess.
It’d be so nice to have four days off… but working Friday and Monday isn’t the end of the world.
It’s great to get a few crazy days out of the way.  Early starts [...]

Excuse the link to Pip twice in a few days… but there’s a quote on his site that really hit home this evening:  “Our character is revealed by how we treat those who cannot help us or hurt us.”
So true, and the more I think about it the more I realise how I notice how [...]

It’s always a day that’s less than productive, but today it felt like sombody was standing on my coat-tails while I ran very fast and got nowhere at all – very Wile E Coyote…
There were good things: A few lovely records caught my attention. We booked a brilliant guest for a show in May. My [...]

Sorry for the long pause. I was mainly excercising.
Sometimes it’s weird to blog. This place that carries so much of my brain and my heart… so much hot air… yet when there’s really important stuff what’s the first defence mechanism to kick in? Don’t Blog.
It’s not because I don’t want to be honest. It’s [...]

Caroline’s comment on yesterday’s entry got me looking back in to the archives… it’s 2 years since we made the offer on the flat and got the mortgage, also 2 years since I changed jobs, and 2 years since I had a camera on my phone.  2 years ago I also went to see Cathy [...]

I took today and tomorrow off work to sort my life out.
You could say that’s a bit of a mammoth task in 48 hours, but I don’t expect to wake up on Friday morning with a fabulous body, a hot man and a job that pays more than my age… I mean that I’ve devoted [...]

I’ve given up alcohol for Lent. I didn’t do any kind of January detox and wanted to do a Lentern action that I’d truly notice – that would actually be some kind of sacrifice – but I didn’t realise that I would notice it quite this much.
The first surprise was how often I actually drink. [...]

There’s not much better than sitting around talking till all hours… Late Night Level 5 if you’re down with that lingo…the only problem, of course, is that it leaves no time for overdue blogging.
I guess we’ll have to wait.