Dolly and Lazarus
Working on diabetes concepts today, all day. Briefly went out to breathe air, and score sparkling water and bread. Brilliant though not to have to travel anywhere to do it.
Off with Lorraine this evening to a Dolly Parton tribute night down in the Latest Music Bar (which used to be Joogleberrys) to meet her pal Wayne, and go to a splendid Dolly Parton Theme night. Essentially lots of unrehearsed but wonderful acts such as Trudi Styles, Miss Treated and Spice doing warped versions of Dolly Parton songs. My favourite was a woman described as "the lady with the ironing board" who played a Dolly song with a strange j-shaped instrument I think was a Crumhorn, and a Casio keyboard on an ironing board, and involved all the audience as if it were some kind of weird workshop. Just brilliant.
Wayne turned out to be a really nice guy. We three had a lovely night, and walked back through town with Lorraine feeling very cheery. Also realising that Dolly's got some really robust songs which can survive all kinds of treatments too.
The evening was connected to a charity to do with sudden death syndrome, and there was a guy who sold us some raffle tickets, and then told us his story of finishing a half marathon and then collapsing. He was 'dead' for seven minutes. Fortunately as this happened just after he crossed the finishing line there were medical people around and he was rescusitatated. He showed us the big lump under his skin where his pacemaker was. He was 27 or 28.
Working on diabetes concepts today, all day. Briefly went out to breathe air, and score sparkling water and bread. Brilliant though not to have to travel anywhere to do it.
Off with Lorraine this evening to a Dolly Parton tribute night down in the Latest Music Bar (which used to be Joogleberrys) to meet her pal Wayne, and go to a splendid Dolly Parton Theme night. Essentially lots of unrehearsed but wonderful acts such as Trudi Styles, Miss Treated and Spice doing warped versions of Dolly Parton songs. My favourite was a woman described as "the lady with the ironing board" who played a Dolly song with a strange j-shaped instrument I think was a Crumhorn, and a Casio keyboard on an ironing board, and involved all the audience as if it were some kind of weird workshop. Just brilliant.
Wayne turned out to be a really nice guy. We three had a lovely night, and walked back through town with Lorraine feeling very cheery. Also realising that Dolly's got some really robust songs which can survive all kinds of treatments too.
The evening was connected to a charity to do with sudden death syndrome, and there was a guy who sold us some raffle tickets, and then told us his story of finishing a half marathon and then collapsing. He was 'dead' for seven minutes. Fortunately as this happened just after he crossed the finishing line there were medical people around and he was rescusitatated. He showed us the big lump under his skin where his pacemaker was. He was 27 or 28.
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