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Yesterday, father-in-law and I went on our helicopter flight from Lothian Helicopters, given as a Christmas present last year but much postponed due to other commitments and inclement weather. We gathered at the appointed time in a bleak field near...
June 17, 2008: Mercatplace blues
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Local (to me) musician Graeme E Pearson (a great character, and surely one of the tallest men in Scotland) is causing a stir in the Royal Mile. He wants to run musical walking tours but Mercat Tours, one of several...
May 27, 2008: London, Lenny and Tom
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Just back from a weekend in London where I went to see venerable Incredible String Band founder Clive Palmer - a cross between Clive Dunn and Catweazle - perform at the Twelve Bar club with a rather nifty five-piece band....
May 19, 2008: Gigs and Tinariwen
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Three performances in four days, that's what I call living. First was with Ms Fi and the Misfits at OOTB on Thursday which had a nice groove to it, and we did her songs justice. Then on Saturday Secret CDs...
May 12, 2008: How to distinguish wrestlers
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I was channelhopping tonight and came across Bushido - Way of the Warrior. Thinking it might be a documentary about Samurai, I turned it on and found a live match taking place in Tokyo. This was 'real' in that it...
May 11, 2008: Loops win out
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After an enjoyable gig at the Dalriada, I am reassured that a set containing loop & guitar synth may be quite acceptable to an 'average' non-muso audience after all. Ms Fi joined in on backing vox and stomping some kind...
April 14, 2008: Mid April blues
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Our switch to O2 for our internet service took up most of Friday. The result, after some adjustment by Plague, is faster speeds on all the PCs in the house except mine, which refuses to rise above the speed of...
April 2, 2008: Terminal 5 live(ish)
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Well it's not full of people sleeping or complaining, that much is good. And Wagamama is good. And it's an impressive building, if a little characterless. But my flight home after a two day course is delayed by 50 minutes...
March 14, 2008: Old timers
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Doing my bit for Help the Aged - bought tickets today for Leonard Cohen (73) and Clive Palmer (65)!
February 21, 2008: Brum Brum
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(Hmm, I've reminded myself of the programme my kids used to watch about a little car, narrated by Toyah. That wasn't wise.) A day in Birmingham at a long but productive meeting, followed by a night in a hotel that,...
February 15, 2008: WaveForms rediscovered
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Browsing my folders in order to put together a demo, I found a lot of WaveForm instrumentals I'd ignored for a year or more. I also discovered the secret of how I can enjoy them - wait until so many...
February 13, 2008: Caught up
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.. in many senses. I've caught up with my time in Barcelona for the blog, and I seem to be caught up in a lot of things, at work and at home. In no particular order, new projects at work,...
February 3, 2008: 'This Moment' is gone
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On going through my inbox last night, I learned of the death of Alan Edwards, the photographer whose images I used for the two Romantic Fiction CDs, and whose blog (This Moment) was a regular source of surprise and pleasure....
January 31, 2008: Barcelona Day 4
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I left the Monastery after breakfast, saying goodbye to those who were still around, feeling privileged to have spent a week with these people. I felt reluctant to give it up, but it was over, and I walked, trundling my...
January 30, 2008: Guitar Craft day 6
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The group challenge over, I have a slight tension headache. Talking about applause and the need for approval, Fripp says he doesn't look for approval or liking, just someone who'll tell him honestly if a performance made it or sucked....
January 29, 2008: Guitar Craft day 5
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Most of the day is spent working towards the evening's performance. Our trio (Trio el Reporter) ditches last night's idea and brew up a short piece that's about 80% improvised, which is Ben and Roberto's preference. I play as little...
January 28, 2008: Guitar Craft day 4
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At the end of the day we got our 'challenge' - a performance tomorrow night by our group for the rest of the House. To entail composing, arranging and performing a piece for the large group, plus several sextets, quintets,...
January 24, 2008: Barcelona day 3
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I had half the day before I had to head up to San Cugat for Guitar Craft. I went up Montjuic partly for the views and partly because one of my tourist maps said there was a Museum of Comic...
January 23, 2008: Barcelona day 2
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After a leisurely breakfast, took the metro to Catalunya Square to pick up the tourist bus for its northern route. First stop I got off at was Sagrada Familia. If you've heard of Barcelona for anything but football, you've probably...
January 22, 2008: Barcelona day 1
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Slept till 7:30. Bath, sit and leisurely breakfast and reading. Near the hotel is an open air escalator which crosses several streets to take you to Parc Guell. I can't show you any photos as my camera kept disgorging its...
January 21, 2008: To Barcelona
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Trains to Prestwick, a childhood haunt, Ryanair to Girona and bus to Barcelona. My neighbour on the plane was a Scottish girl who lives in a caravan in Barcelona. She's been a trapeze artist for seven years. Booked into my...
January 20, 2008: To Barcelona
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After a day skipping between packing and getting car insurance quotes, I'm off to Barcelona tomorrow for the better part of two weeks - four days as a tourist and a week on a Guitar Craft course in a monastery...
January 17, 2008: Breakdowns
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Everyone in the business division in which I work was told to attend a meeting today or, if you couldn't attend, dial in, for an important 'restructure' announcement. You always know what that means. The smell of management consultants hung...
January 3, 2008: Darker than you, deeper than me
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Met Sam Barber the other day and we were talking about the albums we're both in the process of recording. Both, it turns out, will be philosophical in intent. '... and my CD cover will be blacker than yours.' '......
December 31, 2007: Dec 31 2007
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Thanks for listening and being friends !Happy 2008!
December 30, 2007: Considering MySpaceicide
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Don't give me the Samaritans' number, I don't need it. For some time, I've been asking myself what the point is of being in sites like MySpace and Facebook. Specifically, every time I get an email telling me that there's...
December 29, 2007: Christmas and post-Christmasism
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Immediately pre-Christmas was a period of stress in the family, occasioned by one member, unparalleled since, er, last Christmas. That was settled in time for Christmas day, although the repercussions will repercuss for some time yet. The Day went off...
December 17, 2007: Chick weekend
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A busy weekend starting with a drive to Aberdeen to pick up Pest and transport her and her pet goldfish home for Christmas. They ought to include driving with fish on board on the driving test. Or at least have...
December 13, 2007: Favourites of 2007
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A friend sent me his list of best albums of 2007. I thought I'd reciprocate, but I can't remember which of the albums or whatever I've been listening to actually came out, or came into my posession, during 2007. So...
December 13, 2007: Recollection
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A time now to regroup and re-collect what has become a scatter of energies, due to work pressure, family issues, and sleeplessness among other things. It's not that I'm some uber-disciplined monkish person, but some regular practices like meditation and...
December 10, 2007: Challenge of the New Reality
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... in more ways than one. A busy day off work in which I coached, cajoled and chauffeured Plague to an interview for a new job, which he got. A big new start for him and all happening very fast....
December 8, 2007: 8 December
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Always etched in my mind as 'John Lennon day', I went to an enjoyable party at Indigo Rose Karen's with lots of my muso friends with nice food and extended jamming. Played ukelele and bouzouki for the first time and...
December 5, 2007: Travellin' man
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Flight to Birmingham for an end-of-year review with my manager, followed by a train to London to meet my friend Andy. (Why do station announcers speak so strangely? 'Kerrstomers ON platform 4 waiting for the 13:40 TEW London Euston ARE...
December 2, 2007: Queensferry Winter Festival
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Today's festival went ahead quite nicely - street market, open air shows and the switching on of the lights. We in the Ferry Fringe arts festival team had a small role, compering a little and then a few songs by...
November 29, 2007: Kyle McEwan
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A few days ago I mentioned Kyle McEwan, the missing son of one of my friends. I learned tonight, just before setting out for the gig that was to be held to publicise the search, that he was found dead...
November 26, 2007: Another space grab
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Hmmm - now that I'm thinking about The Wolf Who Snared the Moon in advance of next week's Secret CDs gig, I discover there's a songwriter in the Isle of Lewis callled The Boy Who Trapped the Sun ! Connected?...
November 23, 2007: Completions
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Today will be, I hope, a day of completions and endings. The completion of a website I've been working on for someone else; still to be resolved is that having moved it from one server to another it looks all...
November 9, 2007: Queensferry open mic/ rainstick
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Last time we (Tommy MacKay, the Impossibles and I) held an open mic here nobody turned up. This time we thought nobody was going to turn up until ten past nine, when six or seven people, including the great Confushian,...
November 1, 2007: Norman oo oo oo oo oo oo ...
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Rosie Bell sent me this link to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOTyiy5KNVk asking me if I knew this song. What a thing to inflict. This song was the bane of my childhood, kids would encircle me in the playground chanting it, and adults...
October 31, 2007: Short poems
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A few short ones: HAIKU My room is silent Knocking round the house downstairs Your October cough (by me!) THINK THAT YOU'RE GLIDING Think that you're gliding out from the face of a cliff like an eagle. Think you're walking...
October 29, 2007: 30-day trial
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Today is the end of my 30-day trial of the practice of getting up at 5:45 with the first ring of the alarm. It's not always been easy but I've kept it up pretty consistently, and it's certainly given me...
October 28, 2007: Update 28/10/07
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Most of my non-work time has been spent helping out with a website and editing the track Nelson and I put down on Tuesday. On Friday night I added some synth and percussion, decided they were rubbish and removed them....
October 14, 2007: New PC
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I've got a new PC (Nhaaah to Flowers for Algernon!). Most of the weekend has been taken up with buying the bits, assembling them (or rather gazing in awe as Plague assembled them for me with casual skill) and copying...
October 12, 2007: Nuts
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The label on this packet of Tesco Pine Nut Kernels declares 'Ingredients: cannot guarantee nut free. Factory: products made in nut free area but nuts used elsewhere'
October 8, 2007: Drawing
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Over the last few months I've been living with a kind of internal 'skills audit' going on in the mental background - what am I any good at? what could I do more with? what do I need to learn...
October 3, 2007: Procedural daftness
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At Madame's work a colleague with crippling arthritis applied for voice recognition technology because it had become too painful for her to use the keyboard. She was told by the Health and Safety dept that she had to complete an...
October 1, 2007: Ayr
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Went to my hometown of Ayr yesterday, to lay flowers on my parents' and gran's graves, and to see some places I love. The visit to the cemetry was fine - I don't feel sadness when I do it, just...
September 27, 2007: Back from Algarve
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Madame and I got back last night from the Algarve. We found when we arrived our hotel was full and we'd been upgraded (free) to a five-star establishment not far away. It was certainly luxurious, although a bit isolated. Getting...
September 18, 2007: Windows crash continued
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A ridiculous and disproportionate part of the last few days has been spent rebuilding my PC after the last Windows crash. I still can't do things like upload files to my site - I'd prepared a whole new jukebox but...
September 16, 2007: Windows crash
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Windows died tonight - due, I strongly suspect, to Groove Agent given that the PC seemed to struggling to cope with opening it, and then completely fell apart when trying to close it. Why does a simple evening doing music...
September 2, 2007: Website and email problems
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Sorry but I'm unable to send email and much of this site is down due to problems with my domain name. I'm trying to get it sorted out but it may have to wait till Monday.
August 28, 2007: Counting blessings
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After the happy gigs at the weekend, some more blessings to count: Robert Fripp At The End of Time (Churchscapes live in England and Estonia 2006) : an album of heartbreaking beauty OOTB's megamic at Linsay's last night - 30...
August 24, 2007: Comedy
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Went down to the Stag's Head in Queensferry for the heats of Scottish Comedian of the Year, in which The Great Tommy MacKay was performing. Tommy didn't win, which I think was a source of relief to him. But he...
August 22, 2007: Rehearsal fever
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In the last few years whenever I've had any musical collaboration we've tended to aim for a short open mic spot as a debut/tryout. That thought has returned a few times to haunt me as Normanello prepares for its debut...
August 13, 2007: Elemental
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On Friday I drove a hired Fiat Punto across Scotland to Ardfern for the Elemental Arts Festival. The B-road to Ardfern is indicated from the Inverary-Oban road by a giant wooden pointing finger. First impressions are that it's boat city...
August 8, 2007: Leezure time
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Off work today for a week, with a view to clearing up my shambles of an office practising for the Elemental Arts festival at the weekend: a long set of acoustic songs on Friday and if the weather's good WaveForms...
August 5, 2007: 8 random facts
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Clive Shepherd has invited me to take on this meme of eight random facts. Post these rules before you give your facts. List 8 random facts about yourself. At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list...
July 29, 2007: Arran (2)
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Just back from a fabby weekend in sunny Arran. More jamming than I've ever done, with four human jukeboxes covering everything from Lenny Cohen to T.Rex with acoustics, electric, glockenspiel, mandolin, flute and djembe. We managed to collaboratively write and...
July 27, 2007: To Arran
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This weekend I'm off to Arran with - what's the collective noun? - a soundcheck of singer-songwriters, namely Nelson Wright, Lyndsay Sugden, Karen Austin and Fiona Thom. The idea is that some collaborative output might come from it, and if...
July 26, 2007: Marc - my words
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While leafing through some old notebooks I came across something written in the mid-90s about my young admiration for Marc Bolan. It struck me as quite nice, not remembering writing it at all. Here it is.
July 25, 2007: The Failed Astronomer
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THE FAILED ASTRONOMER They named a star after me But that's no constellation.
July 23, 2007: DIY/WIF
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A weekend of house-clearing and DIY involving self, Madame and Plague. DIY in our house equates often to WIF (Well-Intentioned Foolishness). My intention in giving up the whole of Sunday to this ordeal was that Sunday evening would be free...
July 18, 2007: You ask, I answer
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A couple of comments on my recent posts have asked one-word questions. How strange that people read this stuff at all, never mind ask for elucidation. But here is elucidation: 'a blindfold?' asks Tommy, noting its presence in the list...
July 17, 2007: Sleeper supplies & lightning
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Contents of courtesy bag in sleeper: Face cloth Soap Razor Toothbrush Toothpaste Shoe polish Shaving cream Deodorant Blindfold Moisturiser Cotton buds
July 16, 2007: Sleeper Awake (I hope not)
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Clearing my desk for an overnight trip to London on the sleeper train. I did it once before as an alternative to a cramped early flight and found it quite agreeable, except for the start, in a cold and bleak...
July 14, 2007: Adrenalin
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Just back from a couple of days in Birmingham. The return flight was delayed by two hours, then three, then four. Every now and then we were told this was due to 'technical reasons', which is tantamount to saying 'this...
July 11, 2007: Various dawnings
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Mental time spent considering various current currents. Moving house may be on the cards; possibly just round the corner. Suddenly the talk is of hundreds of thousands of pounds, as casually as the price of a pint. I must not...
July 3, 2007: Video video
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One of the tasks I've had to defer for months is the capturing and editing of some videos of myself, the Innocents and the Houdini Box. Stage one of the task was remembering how to do it - it seems...
July 2, 2007: Declutter(2)
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The reorganisation of my study went on till late on Saturday, causing me to miss a party (sorry F); continued into Sunday as Plague very efficiently and effectively helped me put up shelves (well, I helped him) but by the...
June 30, 2007: Declutter and clutter
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Today, an attempt to restructure my small study/office/dreaming space. The aim of the day was to buy more re-arrangable shelving than that currently installed, which are essentially bookcases. But the opportunity seemed to present itself to declutter. This meant going...
June 30, 2007: A letterful of grass ...
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I remember a friend of mine who had worked in Zambia used to receive every month a rolled-up copy of the Zambia Times containing, in its pages, enough grass for a large number of fat joints. This week I received,...
June 25, 2007: 25/6/07 it's the thought that counts
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Final meeting of the Ferry Fringe committee last night, to which I brought a box of chocolates for the staff of the hotel in which we've been meeting all year. On the way there I thought 'it's a bit mean...
June 11, 2007: 11/6/07 The Fringe is over
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... and very successful it was too. Full workshops, large audiences, good weather. Brilliant. On Sunday evening, home after a poetry workshop on Inchcolm Island, I sat down with a glass of red wine; my mind must have been 'prepared'...
June 9, 2007: 9/6/07 Fringe benefit
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Yesterday was a good day for the Ferry Fringe, with the two main concert events - XCite Youth Theatre and Jojo Sutherland's comedy night - full houses and a steady interest in the Priory exhibition, where I sat most of...
June 8, 2007: 8/6/07 Opening with Ivor
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Thursday night saw the opening night of the Ferry Fringe. All the usual last-minute changes and setbacks, all admirably dealt with by the team. The performances were very good, and there was a wave of love and pride for a...
June 5, 2007: 5/6/07 Festival
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Fairly ebullient Festival meeting last night. I note that both individually and as a group, we feel better because we have abandoned the parts of the programme which we did not control, and for which we depended on others outside...
June 3, 2007: 3/6/07 Let's have a festival
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Sometimes this week I've thought 'Let's not!'. It's been a roller-coaster of a week, with maximum stress for all concerned. The irony is that none of the stress-inducing stuff has been to do with the Arts Festival we're organising, but...
May 29, 2007: 28/5/07 the still point
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Tonight's meeting of the Fringe committee was very stressful as we worked to overcome some major setbacks. We had to absorb some bad news and think creatively to start from where we now are, while dealing with the emotions of...
May 22, 2007: 22/5/07
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Constant stream of correspondence about the Ferry Fringe. It's only a couple of weeks away, and three weeks from now is becoming an increasingly attractive horizon. Finished work today boggled by revelations about a customer, albeit an indirect one, of...
May 11, 2007: 11/5/07
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A day in Edinburgh with visitors from New Zealand. Among other places, the Royal Yacht Britannia. My visitors are of a generation and inclination to whom the Queen really means something, but I didn't need to share that to find...
May 11, 2007: 11/5/07
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Burning the midnight coffee to get the Ferry Fringe programme sent to the designer and put up on the Ferry Fringe site. It's been one of those head-down-keep-on-keeping-on jobs, which I made tougher for myself by trying to integrate non-blog...
May 8, 2007: 8/5/073
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The Ferry Fringe (arts festival) is getting close and the work's getting urgent, but fortunately we have a committee of do-ers with lots of contacts and energy. I was more impressed than ever tonight by the way they think of...
May 7, 2007: 7/5/07
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I'm working on the revamp of my site so you might find some audio samples and other links don't work for the next few days as I move stuff around. I'm sure most people in both the developed and developing...
May 5, 2007: 5/5/07
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T and S invited me to go to Spiderman 3 with their 7-year-old so off I went this morning. While waiting for them, spent some birthday money on Tony Visconti's autobiography. Enjoyed the film on the whole, but it was...
April 30, 2007: 30/4/07
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Musing about my lack of TV addiction the other day I omitted to mention that more and more of my time is spent reading blogs - lots of them to do with my work - and watching YouTube (among other...
April 26, 2007: 26/4/07
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Last few days have been a flurry of work, catching up on the day job and pitching in with the Ferry Fringe as we near the actual dates - just over a month away! Fortunately this year we have a...
April 23, 2007: 23/4/07
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Whoah! Time for bed - just realised I've spent an hour surfing stuff about Marvel superheroes on Wikipedia and superherohype.com! Sad, bad and not good for you!
April 22, 2007: 22/4/2007 Back from Holy Island
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Back last night from retreat on Holy Island; these things are never easy (John Crook, during a discussion on making retreats less intense and more accessible, said firmly 'Zen is not easy - there's no point pretending it is!') but...
April 15, 2007: 15/04/07
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Thanks to John and Ali for a great housewarming party last night, which I'm sure will crop up in various people's blogs - I counted at least six bloggers round the bonfire! I'll be offline now for a week on...
April 12, 2007: 12/4/07 Movable Typecast
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I haven't been blogging as much because I've been, er, building blogs. I decided to try a local installation of Movable Type in my own webspace to see if I could have a little more design flexibility than with TypePad,...
April 7, 2007: 7/4/07
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Been out and about in a very atypical fashion. Played Out of the Bedroom last night: quite a mixed night, the only standout for me being a woman who accompanied herself on plucked blues violin. As part of my current...
March 31, 2007: 31/3/07
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More war stuff. Funny little exchange over on CBQ's blog about the Johnny Seven gun. I remember asking my parents for one and being refused, probably on cost grounds rather than ethical. If I had one now, I'd hide in...
March 26, 2007: 26/3/2007
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The Arts Festival, now called the Ferry Fringe, is stirring into action in quite a powerful way; it's now combined with a beer festival and a continental street market, and as a chairman who knows nobody and nothing about the...
March 12, 2007: 12/3/07
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How did I ever let myself be talked into chairing a festival committee? It's the sort of role that makes me think 'they need me to be dynamic, they need me to be decisive, they need me to be ..'...
March 5, 2007: 5/3/2007
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Just before midday my neighbour asked if I could help with his PC, which was displaying the 'blue screen of death'. Four hours, a sandwich, two cups of tea, several chocolate biscuits and a flying visit from Plague later, his...
March 1, 2007: 1/3/07
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Last night I chaired the Arts Festival meeting - it was like herding cats. Most of the committee had sent their apologies, some others came but were late, a local well-known-person whom I was meeting for the first time turned...
February 16, 2007: 16/2/07
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One result of a lot of 'mindfulness' effort I've been putting in recently, what with my normal practice and Guitar Craft, is the realisation that Norman Lamont isn't the Mr Laid Back for which he has the reputation, at least...
February 14, 2007: 14/2/07
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On Sunday did a solo set at the Full Moon Club. Noticed how I sing better when I’m unrehearsed. Pulled out of nowhere a cover of ’Tears of a Clown’. Two days away in Birmingham, followed by a day struggling...
February 10, 2007: 10/2/07
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Pest is home for the weekend, lightening the house with her usual sense of fun. Plague has finally let one of his friends hear a little of the music he's been working on in his room, in strict secrecy, for...
February 7, 2007: 7/2/07
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Our on-off jujutsu class is off again tonight. I'm going to hurt when I go back. Spent a little attention on my MySpace page tonight, just because it needed it. At the back of my mind is a major revision...
February 1, 2007: 1/2/07
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January 28, 2007: 28/1/06
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Most of the weekend spent on maintenance tasks - tidying, dealing with accumulated and neglected mail: the rest spent helping Plague with a website he is developing for a local charity. As usual a 'quick job' in CSS turns out...
January 26, 2007: 25/1/07
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A 'quick job' in the afternoon turned into a struggle as I stumbled across one of those Javascript techniques that works in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox. I found a way round that only to find I was getting...
January 25, 2007: 24/1/07
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A day of missed opportunities and techno-frustration at work. Most of these were outside my control but one missed opportunity was caused by my trusting my memory about the time of an event rather than looking in my diary, where...
January 23, 2007: 23/1/07
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A great deal of the day spent in computer-rage, typical I suppose for someone who sits in front of three of the things for the better part of the day. My job has improved in many ways over the last...
January 15, 2007: 15/1/07
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Work - a carefully planned day went nothing like the plan, but I responded to others' needs at the right time. At lunchtime, took the artwork for the CD to a printer friend of a friend, who'll do it for...
January 14, 2007: 14/1/07
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Madame, her Dad and Sister have spent all of Friday evening, all of Saturday and most of this morning online researching flights to and hotels in Barcelona for an Easter break. I won't be going as I'll be going on...
January 12, 2007: 11/1/07
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To Birmingham for a planning day for the wider team of which my team is a part. Due to what BA always call 'operational reasons' (in other words, none of your business) I arrived late, but in time to cut...
January 8, 2007: 8/1/07
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The masters for Romantic Fiction 2 are here and it sounds good to me. Just need to get printing sorted and I'll be ready to nudge the public with the elbow and with a subtle twitch of the chin try...
January 5, 2007: 5/1/07
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Trip to Birmingham for a three-hour meeting kicking off a new project. Long wait at the airport for the plane home, reading Mojo magazine and Derren Brown's book. Getting home about 9, caught up with email including the introductory email...
December 31, 2006: 31/12/06
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May 2007 be your special year.
December 27, 2006: 26/12/06
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While Madame and Pest made a first assault on the Boxing Day sales, I tidied my study and sat down to address a long list of outstanding jobs for the Out of the Bedroom website. It all went well until...
December 27, 2006: 25/12/06
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A quiet family Christmas with Madame's dad and sister. Watched a film he had been sent called The Gods Are Crazy which was quite wacky and very amusing.
December 24, 2006: 24/12/06
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Various seasonal events like exhausting shopping and a pleasant evening out with The Two Daves at Kushi's. Nicole's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3QNWV3Gug . Previews of Romantic Fiction 2 are beginning to appear at http://www.normanlamont.com/rf_2.htm Wishing you all a good one!
December 21, 2006: 21/12/06
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To Birmingham early for my work's annual conference and Christmas party. Except that due to the Heathrow fog all planes were delayed, mine by nearly two hours. The conference had its amusing moments but was largely unedifying - every year...
December 17, 2006: 17/12/06
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Yesterday morning, a massive house-clearing exercise began. While Plague's been working on his room and getting a new carpet the contents of the room have been spread throughout the whole house, making it an obstacle course worthy of the Royal...
December 15, 2006: 15/12/06 Listening and speaking
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Chaired the Arts Festival meeting last night. Some anxiety about the role, until it hit me (afterwards) that that's what it is: a role that needs to be done. It doesn't mean I'm personally responsible for the existence and quality...
