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Crash Landings / September 20 2007
Nelson rang last night. He asked how I was.
‘I’m feeling lonely,’ I told him.
‘Think yourself lucky,’ he said. ‘At least you got rid of that mad French woman you were married to. She was anybody’s for a tin of beans and a Martini. Small price to pay, being lonesome, if you ask me. You got [...]
A Village Defined / September 19 2007
Following on from yesterday’s post, I have been thinking a lot about where Audrey and I live and work.
I quite liked this unassuming, little, ex-mining village when we first moved here. It made a change from the tourist hustle and bustle of Newark where we used to live. It made me very sad when I [...]
Love of the Common People / September 18 2007
I beg your indulgence while I vent my spleen. I have mentioned before that rudeness is my bête noire, and I have just encountered an inbred idiot of a man who probably invented it.
There are many people around here who are ignorant, ill-mannered and demonstrably backward, but this person was so rude and objectionable that [...]
Foxes / September 17 2007
When Audrey and I were out in the frosty and deserted Derbyshire fields that border the village at 6:30am today enjoying a particularly early morning walk, we happened upon a family of foxes.
It was an amazing and inspiring thing to see. We sometimes see individual foxes when we are out and about around Townend Farm, [...]
Smell the Gloves / September 16 2007
Work began in earnest yesterday on the new Enormous album which is provisionally titled Give the Boys a Great Big Hand.
We began the session by recording the backing tracks to That Girl Again and My Type – the latter being a well-loved, classic Enormous song, an earlier version of which appeared on our second album [...]
Unexpected Landscape Feature / September 14 2007
I was searching last night for some technical information regarding dynamic microphones and valve compressors, when, after being online for about seven hours, I came to the end of the internet.
There is nothing there except a blank page that bears the legend: ‘You have reached the End of the Internet. You can now either: 1/Go [...]
Sombrero Fallout / September 13 2007
I think it must be dressing-up day at the local infants school because Audrey and I passed scores of children this morning who were filing into the playground carrying bundles of colourful shirts, hats, spangled sandals and boots.
Our attention was drawn in particular to a pair of 5 or 6 year-old girls who were involved [...]
Fruit / September 12 2007
I do not watch much television, but I must say that seeing Dannii Minogue on The X-Factor on Saturday evening didn’t half make me feel fruity.
I used to quite fancy Kylie, but my attention has now been drawn to her dark-haired sibling. She reminds me somewhat of my ex-wife who, if the truth be told, [...]
Fowl Language / September 11 2007
Even though I am a vegetarian, I think that within the next few days I may kill a chicken.
There is a cockerel that has been installed in the back garden of a house a few doors down the street and he has bravely taken it upon himself to try to awaken the whole village at [...]
Dogs? They Stink! / September 10 2007
Whilst we were enjoying a peaceful countryside amble yesterday, Audrey decided that it would be jolly good fun to roll around excitedly in some freshly-produced, bright green horse shit.
‘Oh my!’ I declared when she caught up with me. (Those were not my exact words.)
She looked up at me rather sheepishly with her big, brown eyes [...]
