under another sun

Cheek A good day today. Managed to get quite a bit of work done, and my brain reasonably focused, and feeling more energetic and more healthy than I have done for a few weeks. Got a manuscript together for a poetry competition. Also reading some more poems from Richard. Fantastic stuff. Toby sent me a link to the new song by the splendid School Food Punishment. Intense Japanse rock with prog undertones and a babelicious singer. You can't go wrong. In the evening up the road to hang out with Anton, and address a couple of cans of Żywiec that needed drinking. I told him about my new craze for Classical Music (which I have been listening to remorselessly). He put on some Borodin, which I didn't know. Anton likes Russian music, which, as naturally as night follows day, led to Euroman Cometh by JJ Burnel, which wasn't the same thing at all. A song called Crabs, about crabs rather lowered the tone. Below a photo Kate took of me in Guernsey. Captioned cheekily in facebook "...

School food punishment Not working in London today. No lie in, though thanks to Calliope who was misbehaving this morning, springing onto the bed at 5:30, knocking over the little bin in the bedroom and and methodically clawing open a draw like some infernal sock-obsessed poltergeist. Up early then, a beautiful morning. Off to Sainsburys and back before nine, then three bouts of laundry and various small tasks. Finally got paid by my old agency too, which was nice. A typically brief note from Toby with a couple of links to a fantastic Japanese band called School Food Punishment . Went onto iTunes where some of their tunes are available. A revelation. In the late afternoon finally able to give into my cold, and spend a couple of hours on my sofa quietly reading while the cat snoozed next to me. Then listened x10 to School Food Punishment. Lorraine around this evening. To the Batty, which tonight hosted every shouty middle aged man with punch attracting face in this part of Brighton. Des...