Just realised I have been making a mistake for the past year not tagging my gigs and pages correctly, so my "bands I have seen the most" list will change now I have fixed that. Right now it is this:
Going to rerun the system and see what happens... Probably not a lot at the top of the list there. 60ft Dolls and Cooper Temple Clause are unlikely to be going anywhere anyway...
Oh yes, David Devant are still in the same place but the count goes up to thirty times. Suede overtake MJ Hibbett, I've seen them seventeen times, or will have done by the time of the upcoming gigs. Likely I am missing some of Mark's gigs, and also some Devant and Darkness shows. Cooper Temple Clause actually did go up one, I must have miscounted one of theirs. Probably more movement further down the list.
No parkrun today. Knackered and felt sure it would be cancelled. Was that the tail end of a hurricane that hit us last night? Weather was very bad anyway.
Luckily was ok earlier when I went out. Was running very late indeed because of a long running support call at work. Have been on eight hour long calls for the past four days and an issue with an external supplier is still not resolved. It's going to result in us getting alert calls during our busy period now, and I might be on call for that, brilliant 1. Anyway, running late got the bus into Hythe. Nearly failed there, the first bus disappeared from the schedule and then I was walking past another stop when another one came. But made it, to The Three Mariners for a change as the Potting Shed was shut for a holiday. All the usual suspects had also migrated, it was great, like a pub holiday.
Walked back, finished Slow Horses, fell asleep during The Last Frontier and then went to bed.
Some things missing from the graph since September 2023, working on getting them back just kind of hoping someone else will fix it and they'll come back.
Hmm, free energy yesterday from twelve until two. Twelve midnight until two in the morning that is. Hard for me to use, best I could do is time the tumble dryer to come on which might have woken me up. I like to go to bed about nine, especially when I'm working in London, as I was yesterday.
Busy day at work yesterday, but good, I do enjoy going into London at the moment. If it didn't cost me about ninety quid a go I'd really enjoy it. I nearly missed my train in, as I struggled to find a free parking spot, and was running a bit late anyway. Just made it though and got my preferred seat, but oddly there were two free seats at the table opposite me. This rarely happens. Standing room only after the next stop though.
I got presented with cake at the end of the day, for five years long service. Very nice, it was vegan chocolate and raspberry cake and we had it after tea last night.
Happy Halloween. I was at The Darkness this day in 2002, at Highbury Garage. This felt like a big one, was with their new Must Destroy labelmates, so not just them on their own, possibly for the first time. This band are going somewhere, these boys can play!
Light rain showers and a fresh breeze, 12 - 15℃.
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I have seen Darkness probably 36 times; Kings Cross Water Rats ('01), Barfly (2001), Barfly ('01), Kings Cross Water Rats ('01), Barfly (2001), Barfly ('01), The Verge (2001), Camden Underworld (2001), The Cut @ Ocean ('01), Notting Hill Arts Club ('01), Kings Cross Water Rats (2001), Barfly (2001), Barfly (2002), Ocean (2002), Bull + Gate ('02), Metro ('02), Kings Cross Water Rats (2002), Ocean ('02), Camden Underworld (2002), Notting Hill Arts Club (2002), Metro ('02), Kings Cross Water Rats ('02), The Garage ('02), The Libertines @ Islington Academy (2002), Def Leppard @ Brixton Academy (2003), 93 Feet East (2003), London Astoria ('03), Glastonbury ('03), HMV (2003), Darkness album launch @ The Cross (2003), Hammersmith Odeon (2003), The Darkness homecoming gig @ London Astoria (2003), Leas Cliff Hall ('04), The Darkness Passport gig @ Barfly ('04), Leas Cliff Hall ('13), and Portsmouth Guildhall (2025).
Australian authorities are investigating after an 80-year-old woman who was left behind on a Great Barrier Reef island by a cruise ship was found dead.
The woman had been hiking on Lizard Island, 250 km (155 miles) north of Cairns, with fellow passengers from the Coral Adventurer cruise ship on Saturday but is believed to have broken off from the group to have a rest.
No, it's not really why I'm not going on a cruise.
Light rain showers and a moderate breeze, 5 - 14℃.
Our bathroom came with goldie lookin' handles instead of silvery looking. Not sure how it happened I don't remember choosing the cupboard door handles, but those gold ones were not the ones in the show room. They do look nice, but everything else is stainless steel. Wickes have sent new ones now, and we've got the other things that weren't considered at the time now too. Important stuff, a toilet roll holder for example. So now the fitter can come back to sort this, and then we have no more reasons not to sign the job off and actually start paying for it. We've got an interest free loan over two or three years. That will fly by.
Maybe I'll be retired by the time it is paid off? Hoping so today, I have woken up very tired again. This clock changing lark seems to have wiped me out, I'm tired at night by 9pm and I'm tired when I have to get up at 6.30am.
At least I do not have to do the 1am to 5am shift at work this week, someone else has volunteered. I was considering it as it could be extra money. As it was this morning at 1am though a) I would have struggled being this tired and b) that does not really get me out of going to London this week. So, I have no extra money, and I have to pay to go into London on Thursday. And it's not even the day of pay like I thought it was, that is next Friday.
Watched a new TV show that I think I quite like, The Last Frontier. It starts with a plane crash like all good TV shows, but this plane is full of dangerous prisoners and it crashes in Alaska.
Light rain showers and a moderate breeze, 5 - 14℃.
I thought it was cute the other day to see the last apples on the tree had been partly eaten, by birds I thought. But no, it was big mouse, and he shall have no more apples.
That was my one useful task of the day. Work felt hard today. I haven't decided if I will do the overnight work on Wednesday, I'm not quite sure it's worth the pay for the lack of sleep. I'll leave it for someone younger who can recover quicker. It might be out of my hands already, someone might have put their name on it. If not I'll decide tomorrow.
Everyone wants some Black Sabbath since Ozzy died, my copy of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is now my most valuable piece of vinyl. also three Suede albums in the top ten!
Paulʼs blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent. Wed + dad to two, I am a full stack web developr, and I do mostly javascript / node, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, restaurants, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and time travel.