At last I have time in the office to catch up on some of the work that piled up in my abscence last week. Sorted out the Hythe Ferry locator yesterday and spent a coupleof hours this morning up on the Common trying to redraw a lake! The Hawthorns send back our proof, which they are basically happy with, but one of the comments suggested that the Ornamental lake was the wrong shape! No other direction, just that. Best thing to do as always is to get up there and draw it from fieldnoted, so I took the camera and made a pleasant break out of it. They are right of course, we have drawn it wrong, but not badly enough to get too upset about. Two bus maps waiting for edits too, and a cost to put together for a new plan of the University campus.
it seems that Student Service have fallen out with their internal cartography unit who seem unable to produce a map of the site that is useful for prospectuses and websites! Crazy, but true, so they are looking at external suppliers. And they have their own aerial photography so i think we should be able to put together something more appropriate.
Wandered round the city with D yesterday putting up pageone and the response to this poster has been phenomenal. Everyone is cleanng it, keeping it clear of clutter, moving furniture etc etc and we have been promised another six sites this month. trouble is that we can't afford the frames! Our credit witht he supplier is right down the toilet and getting worse while we negotiate this cashflow deficit that threatens to last into the new year.
Spoke to Kink earlier, she thinks she may have left her bank card at the house. That probably means its in one of her collection of handbags. I think she bought another two during her four days here - not to mention another half dozen Tshirts.

And last night I rang Tara, but of course there was no-one in! trying to decide what to give her when we meet up on Saturday. The fotos from the Voxgate have gone online and it looks as if there were perhaps only a dozen or so people turned up. feel weird and nervous about meeting her and Andrew now, and it is becoming rather a Big Deal.
I think I will do a copy of the Hollywood gig from 1979, and maybe the new Metamatics album "3 Jak and Dive" which the office supplies account bought for me this morning. Its a little on the trance side of things for my immediate taste and I need to listen to it more carefully. The NildraHain EP at least, although this does include the original version of 4am on Spectre Canal. Most people I speak to seem to prefer John's remix - I haven't played the two back to back yet.
A copy of this album will also go in a package to ShadowMan before the weekend, setting him up to copy all the recent 12" vinyl remixes onto CD for me. And sometime this week, maybe even today, I should at last get a copy of the CD version of From Brussels With Love. Its been a nightmare sorting out this for the metamatic.com discography because there are so many different versions of it. Initially released on double cassette, then double vinyl, then CD all with different tracklistings. It will be left off for now until RH comes up with a definitive version.
really hope something goes up in the next week or two. Hot irons and all that…