shoesFirst of two days at home, for half term.
Most welcome, and again turning my thoughts towards the objective (three of four years from now) when I will be only going into the office three times a week.
Simple enough day, and though I enjoy work immensely it seems to have made such a difference not going in, and knowing that I'm here tomorrow as well.
Weekly grocery run this morning and then some quiet time at home doing odds and ends of jobs (I don't clean shoes and cut firewood nearly enough!) until Trx took F, A and S out to the cinema to see Charlott'es Web. For S, his first experience of the Big Screen, and he was suitably in awe! Not surprising we don't go much as the afternoon's entertainment set us back over £30!! They enjoyed the film (though A commented that it wasn't as good asxthe book and so-and-so "didn't really seem like that" etc...) and got back in perfect time for me to serve up dinner around six.
Spent a great couple of hours alone with LC while N slept - something else I don't get nearly enough time to do. She's such a bundle of silliness, I love her to bits. We played 'barbies' for ages, and I fixed the lift in the house (which makes SUCH a horrible noise, put lightbulbs in things that flash, arrnaged furniture and put-on and took-off-again SO many clothes. read afew stories and then she played with her lego while I built up a fire, got the meal ready and… aaaagh, checked the office emails.

HOW MANY TIMES do I have to remind everyone that the ship is called the 'QE2(number two) and not QE 11 or II.
It's quite ridiculous. The later denomination ALWAYS refers to monarchs, not ships, as P&) and Cunard have both pointed out more than once!
We can't send out media packs and make presentations to London based media agencies with that kind of ignorance going on....

Anyway, babbling on. Like I said, a very low-key, modest and ordinary day - but all the better for that.

Also had a good session last night catching up with the Timeline, having sorted all the bookcovers and worked through adding in significant punk dates from this month's Mojo diary. First Clash and Damned albums etc, and Nwer Mind the Bollocks in 77 - all happening alongside Ultravox!, but in some kind of parallel universe. This contextual stuff is very important and makes the whole biog. so much more interesting.
Found a great website too, describing itself as the Encyclopedia of Britsh neo-Romanticism which makes fascinating reading.
Foxx fits in there too and has a major entry alongside Eno.
he's also very big in the whole development of the Goth culture which I will try and develop as well. Perhaps. One day.
Priority now, having transcribed the lyrics to Sideways this weekend is to work on 1982 and try to complete the linking narrative between the release of The Garden and the first version of Endlessly.
Email today from JWB is very exciting. Seems he welcomed the introductory message I sent him some weeks ago but has been busy moving house and ortganising events relating the recent funeral of an aunt. Intends to respond "more fully in a couple of weeks", and has hinted that he might give an interview if he cannot find the link I am looking for. It will be fascinating to get his take on the first album…

I recently opened a thread at a couple of forums with the philosophical gambit:

"The mechanism of contemporary society seems intent, by whatever means, on encouraging us, in every way, to be other than we are."
I ranted about this earlier in my posting about infertility.
But it covers our appearance, our tastes, our finance, our relationships with each other etc. Self-evasion generally.
Not surprsingly, few people have responded so far :-(