Seems ther's hardly time to breathe these days, especially at the office.
We have taken the decision to move rooms and increase our humble 300 sq ft to 750, sacrificing one of the storage units to help with the increase in rent.
STill cheap as chips and we know it. Any where else in the city remotely suitable would be double that, so we"re grateful the opportunity has come up. November 1st is to be the 'official' move over, but the room's full of our Room Folder remnants so we could really start any time.
If any of us had any time!!
The World Atlas has really kicked off this week and the Indians are supply stuff back at three pages a day as promised. Given that the input data is slow getting to me I'm impressed with their efforts. And I have successfully negotiated another month so the deadline is now 1st December - haven't told them yet to keep the pace up for this week and the next two so we can get well ahead with it.

Done the poster to advertise our forthcoming concert, which I have called 'Catch the Spark'. A couple of people have dropped out of the line-up so its not ready to do a programme yet - and we have to get this 'Fair Trade Fiesta' over first. Seems crazy to me that we have two events on consecutive weekends and the same committee of people organising both!!
How come that was allowed to happen.

And Commitment Week begins on Thursday.
No - tonight - with an evening of pizza and prayer at the vicarage.
I'd like to go to at least two nights this year, but it won't be the one that we are hosting tomorrow because I'm simply too busy. Hopefully Friday and Monday.
No Tx is going on Monday, so I can't do that. It will have to be next Tuesday - the last night.
Over too quickly again.

Kink will be here in half an hour for her weekly fix.
How long I wonder will this go on. It's dark now when she drives here and it all seems rather a lot of faff to me.

Have been willing RH to call me for the last couple of days but it hasn't worked yet.
Had an email today from the Duke of York in Brighton confirming that Foxx is going to premier 'Tiny Colour Movies' there on November 18th.
Passe dthe news on to those that need to know, but it's not up to me to put that kind of information out to fans.

I think also its a couple of weeks since I decided that 'War Games with Katherine' really had to stop.
I wrote that song in 1984 - and that really is a scary thought.
It's very easy to atribute the Dark Mood of Monday and Tuesday to this, but I'm sure that's only one secondary element.
Somewhre I have the song on tape, recorded by Kindred Spirit in Mike's room at Cheny Hall. They performed it at one of only two gigs they ever did - which I suppose counts as a Moment of Pleasure - one that I had completely forgotten.
The second I recall with fondness when Mike and Graeme played 'Mishka' fo rtwo hours. I can see the people walking out now.
Must revist that again and work out how to transfer the 'live' cassette recording onto CD.

I have bundles and bundles of lyrics from this period which I have only added to with one or two pieces a year since.
Three songs I think were 'recorded'
War Games with Katherine
Jane's Green Dress and... what was it?

Shallow

I remember Katherine (of course - how could I forget. She lived in the village where Dave and Kerstie got married earlier this year! Hambledon, is it??. felt so so weird being back in that pub.
Hard to make her out in the shadows, but her laughter still echoed on the water.)
It was the only song they played.
Most of the other lyrics didn't 'scan' properly or some such nonsense.

Of course two weeks is absolutely diddly squit.
I've gone months and months at a time before.
Scott Walker has a beautiful song called 'Always Coming Back To You'.
Mind you - he has many many beautiful songs.
For dark times.
People always say his stuff is depressing - like Morrissey - but I find it emotional, challenging and deeply moving.
Which brings me back to Marc.
There we are - that's a song for me about Marc Almond.

Always Coming Back to You.

Little Rough Rhinestones, Part 2 is finally available, and the cover versions album should be released in January. Hopefully before that I'll ahve some funds to get the CD/DVD package 'All the A's" which come sou tin November. His videos are soooooo good.
Then there's the news that he has just started writing songs for what will be his last album, expected to be available in the autumn of 2008.
That will indeed be a sad day.

Had 'heart on Snow' on again a few times recently.

Is this the Best Album Of All Time?
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So Long the Path
So Hard the Journey
When I will return
I cannot say for sure
Till then the nights will be long
And sleep will be full of dark dreams and sadness
But don't weep for me..."
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