under another sun

A lazy Saturday morning with Lorraine, breakfast in bed and lengthy chats. In the afternoon Lorraine and Beth went to look at laptops. I however remember that I had promised Richard and Silvana to take some photos of them as Bossa Love. Nipped down to the Peace statue where I had arranged to meet them. Low cloud and very cold in the wind. Bloody freezing it was, and they stripped off to look summery. Faked some sunny photos, and then took some snaps in a nearby hotel and back at Silvana's flat. The photoshoot prompted by Richard having the wrong guitar in the previous snaps I had taken which they had used last year. Nice chat with them, and then I walked back home. In the evening Lorraine, Beth and I off in an Uber to have some grub with Rosie and Innis. Innis had cooked and we brought some beer and just hung out all night drinking a few drinks, and eating chicken stew and cheese and having a really good laugh. Below  a couple of my snaps of Richard and Silvana freezing for the...

Another foggy damp day. Lorraine up and more independent now that her arm is no longer in the heavy cast. I had no urgent tasks and I had the luxury of doing some thinking, and catching up with a few blog posts, and fiddling about with some writing. An old pal Chris Amies got in touch via Instagram to say he had read and liked The Inheritor in Supernatural Tales. Out with the so called Beer Monsters this evening, in our usual Evening Star haunt. Nick was there when I arrived, he is a mine of information about beer and brewing. We were soon joined by Steve and Richard, then two musician pals of Steve's discussing an upcoming Sumerian Kyngs gig. Later we were joined by Claudius, and who had with him a young rapper called Harrison who goes by the name of Aitch  who I asked to find himself on Spotify for me as he was leaving. He was a nice guy and very talented. Later we were joined by Monty Oxymoron  currently keyboard player with The Damned. When I grow up I want to be a wiki...

Up with Lorraine and the larks and doing some ideas for my French clients for several hours this morning. This all sent off, I walked over to Richard's new flat, phoned en route by Val to discuss the concepts. Arrived at and found him and Silvana ready to be photographed. Fortunately it was a glorious day. We went into St Ann's Well gardens, right by where Richard now is, but there were no good places. We went down to the sea, and I was able to take a few snaps of them. Richard not in his happy place being photographed but he relaxed eventually. As I was doing this, the new clients called asking for some copy tweaks in the middle of this, so had to nip home fairly smartly afterwards to get that work done and returned. Star Trek tonight, with Lorraine, who was somewhat bushed having started a sore throat yesterday. An early night. Below some snaps I took of Richard and Silvana -- aka Bossa Love.