under another sun

Tetchily working on various bits of freelance today. Felt like eating bread. Ate bread. Did lots of stuff about Chad. Lorraine home late due to pilates, so I sauntered down to The World's End to watch The Shakespeare Heptet . Sat with Steve Cartwright and Maria Grazia and enjoyed seeing the Shakies do their normal pearls before swine business in the pub. Lots of lovely new music. I had a vision of Richard's material being used as a musical stage play woven around some of the threads that go through the Sonnets. Talked to him about this a bit. Had a nice time catching up with them, chatting to Dipak too. Steve told me how he was responsible for the death of legendary singer songwriter Nick Drake. Apparently Steve was watching him play in Leicester, Drake was the support act and there were few people to see him. Drake mumbled something about one more song and then he's going, and Steve who loved Nick Drake applauded enthusiastically. This was misinterpreted by the fragile D...

Much needed slow, water sipping kind of day, and it was cooler too in Brighton. Spot of work first thing, followed by quite a bit of free-range lounging about and spending time simply chatting. Lorraine and I off in the evening to see The World's End movie at an early-evening showing at the Duke of York's. Had a nice cup of tea and really enjoyed this comedy with a poignant undertone, and I think I preferred it to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz both of which were good fun too, had a few laugh out loud moments too, which is always a good thing in a comedy. Based around a bunch of middle aged guys attempting again a pub crawl they failed to complete when they were 18, and the evening going horribly wrong due to an alien invasion. Loved the sense of things getting completely out of hand which of course may happen during a pub crawl. Below  still from The World's End.