under another sun

Up and looking at my poem for a while, then breakfast with my lovely wife, and a spot of recording with Robin. Shortly before I started, I heard workmen replaced the entire streetlight outside. I looked out at one point, and saw one of them leaning into the side of the lorry, having a crafty wee. His doing this dressed head to toe in hi-vis clothing made me laugh. Had to record on Lorraine's dressing table due to the noise in my office, but all was fine. Then Lorraine and I drove through the glorious morning to Marchants Hardy Plants, which was having a closing down sale. We selected ten pots of things, several interesting grasses, a fern and other delights for the garden. Very nice to be there mooching around, such was the glory of the day, bright sun, blue skies, autumn in full flow. We stoped off at Alfriston on the way home, fuelled by talk of being spontaneous. We went into the first pub we passed, called The Star. We were expecting pub grub, but found ourselves in what has th...

A mellow thundery Thursday. In the afternoon Lorraine zoomed us to the village of Alfriston, where we parked up and visited Much Ado books, a lovely bookshop with old and vintage books, rubbing shoulders with new ones. Lovely inviting space. I bought a hardback copy of The Wind in the Willows which was about 40 years old, Toby straying happily among the books. Somewhere new to lurk in repeatedly. Then we popped across the road to The Singing Kettle cafe, where we ate all unbelievably healthy salads. On the way back to the car, the thunder started and we drove back in wild rain and thunder over Seaford. Absolutely hosing it down when we arrived again. An hour or so later, Toby and I trained off to Brighton to lurk in The Batty with Anton. Toby and Anton not seen each other for quite a while. Had a few beers, and put the world to rights. Later we rain-dodged down to the Shahi, which although a bit chaotic and slow --was fun. Then up the hill to the Signalman pub for an absolute bloody f...

Two turkeys Another good night's sleep, this time without drugs. Weighed myself this morning, on Lorraine's prompting, and pleased to learn that I have now lost the equivalent of two turkeys - 9 kilos (almost 20lbs) this year. Quite pleased to learn this as I worried that I had simply put weight back on during the play and so on. My target is 20 kilos for the year, and I seem to be on track. In the afternoon off with Lorraine driving up into the Downs. It was a foggy day, and the horizon disappeared and isolating the trees against a depthless grey. We went to Alfriston, a perfect little Sussex Village with many flint walls, and visited the Clergy House which dates back to the 1350s. Lovely little building with nice gardens. Rainy and misty while we were there, but fun. Lorraine drove me back home and I went to the Twitten meeting. Lots of chatting about poos (canine and human), nocturnal micturators, drug dealers, forming a reading group and generally having a laugh, which see...