the beat goes on

more wednesday wfh...thursday have to skip out of a 50th for home time... friday getting busy wfhing again... gave an armful of blood... whisked the boy to leeds united academy... zipped back to meet mrs d to see jason manford at the lawrence batley... very funny... saturday and more footy... 16-0, a hat-trick and man of the match for the boy, footy birthday party at the zone then off to see town go down 3-2 to leicester... sunday it's the streets at manchester academy...very good... skinner is loved... mcr mon and tues... trip to the smoke weds for visit to favourite numeeja buds... thurs it's mcr again... back down to london friday then over to lufc academy again immediately followed by trip over the pennines to see css at the academy with eldest girl... saturday off to manic party down south... all wigs flares and platforms... sunday to france for the wine i don't drink...

hold steady...

a monday gym session and wfh and get up to speed... tues hit manchester ready to work and stay out to see the hold steady... a few less choice meetings... found out the hold steady cancelled... not too down... not home enough atm... pick up the boston spaceships and ladyhawke at piccadilly records in the rain... more shonky meetings and away... weds early gym gone wrong... felt ill after 30 mins... gave up and had to lie down... feeling better... get some work done... ripped old hard drive out of desktop... cradled it and usbed into lappy... rebuilding itunes...

an ordinary sort of week

it all started in geneva... flew from leeds/bradford... £1.41 to offset the carbon... met by buddy at geneva airport... bag-drop then a scoo round nyon... whizzed past uefa... strong coffee and photo op... loal restaurant for family meal... many many fantastic prawns... sunday and we hit lausanne.. festival in progress... classical, neo-drone, nudity, chocolate, fondue, churches and castles... later on, into geneva on the train see r.e.m... great show... re-energised band... we are scientists good and skinny... monday missed my flight to gatwick... spent ages chasing a missing bag round the airport... got a later flight... three trains later got into ramada near excel... tuesday went to agile business conference... evening boat trip up the thames for speakers and sponsors... weds delivered keynote address... more comedy than content... more trains, more planes... got home late... thursday meetings over manchester... friday evening at leeds united academy with the boy... saturday junior footy v gomersall for the boy then off to blackpool... sat eve through the illuminations... sunday afternoon... the boy plays for blackburn rovers... wins and draws... sunday eve... off to halifax to see kate rusby... lovely as ever.