Mindy in the North Laine Mindy and I off for breakfast at the Nia cafe, which is nia-by, and a walk around The North Laine area . This are catnip for women, and I've yet who find one who isn't drawn into shops to look at new age crystals, notebooks made of circuit boards, graphic novels, music shops, vulgar giftshops or be beguiled by clothes made from skull and rose print material, by vegetarian shoes and all the cafes offering organic flapjacks and a thousand other biteables. Mindy purchased tights, and cases to house your car CDs, and talked to herself sternly about lack of funds as she fingered dresses in rust and green and purple to go with her red hair. I dabbed intermittently my face, expecting a shopping induced nosebleed at any moment. Eventually there were fond farewells as I dropped her off with Adrian, where she'd parked her car. I was joking that the police wanted me to ensure that Mindy left Brighton, and Adrian half believed me for a moment. Home determined t...
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Mindy and a tofu pocket Pottering again today. More stuff with Amazon, and now have an amazon page for the book. Amazon are unwieldy when it comes to selling books. Also working on the In Praise of Music piece for Matt during the day. Mindy was having her photo taken by Adrian Turner, for a project he is doing for a charity on breast cancer, and so came to stay. She attended the shoot, came back to my place and cried, as she had found confronting her new self image difficult. Her last reconstruction surgery was only a few weeks ago. However after a hug, a chamomile tea and a mooch about in town she was much more cheerful. Had a tasty vegetarian meal in Food for Friends (tofu pockets, and some indian vegetarian platter) and then a slow drink in the Basketmakers talking about drama both real dramas (which her life is currently chock full of) and the writing for theatre course she is about to embark on. Home for more virtuous chamomile and then bed. Some rogue vegetable lodged in a tofu p...
Found Matt sent through the midi file for Found today, the piece we wrote for The Rainbow Chorus, the choir Matt is MD of. Sounded like a sure fire hit to me, very singable and catchy, with a just enough complexity to give it depth and longevity. Looking forward to hearing the choir sing it. Meanwhile today I have been working on the words for the In Praise of Music piece we are doing for a competition. This is the first time we've worked where the music is pre-existing and I have to supply words. Bit of a bizarre experience: I sat listening to the midi on repeat until my brain started splurging out words, which to my surprise were based loosely on the Creation, and were full of Biblical imagery. Talked to Matt this evening and explained that my drivel detector was on the blink, so he should treat the results with caution. Otherwise a bitty day. Went to the gym, chased payments, went through the latest Amazon hoop to try to sort the page out for our book, added a sentence to one ...
A discovery Lorraine slightly under the weather and glum, while I was just tired. After breakfast, however, we took ourselves for a walk by the overcast sea, and felt better for the fresh air and a long chat. I had worked first thing, however, on the new 'In Praise of Music' piece Matt sent through. Ended up writing some obscure and vaguely religious words for it. Anna and Anton off to Jersey today to mingle with crapauds. Lorraine and I may meet them in Sark in a couple of weeks, at the end of their holiday and the beginning of ours. Sark, of course, is in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Better yet, returning from our walk, Lorraine played about with the movie camera and found some film of the This concert will fall in love with you which I was convinced had not been saved. Absolutely delighted to have some record of these first events. I will post something here later. Called Matt with the happy news, who said there had been a parade gathering in the street outside his house maki...