Bird noises anyway. Up earlyish, wife off to London, I was putting the bins out and could hear a sort of cuckooing sound. Surely pigeons, but a nice sound anyway, among the other tweeting. It has the sound of going to be a nice day out there, going to warm up I think.
The birdsong does sound sweeter of course when I have won £225 on the premium bonds. I'm the only winner this month I think. In our house I mean, I expect there were other winners.
We will start looking at holidays in about two weeks. I said to wife I had looked at Cornwall, checking out what difference it made getting the train and hiring a car down there or driving all the way, and she said why?? We're going abroad apparently, whatever it takes. This war being on might affect that though surely?
Those gigs I said I was going to are coming up this week, that's come around fast, think I'm not going to any of them then. David Devant are playing Ramsgate and St Leonard's and Bloodworm are playing London. Keen to go to something though, I wish there was a Glastonbury. I'd be getting excited and packing for that about now.
Day out in Rochester was great yesterday. Bit of a pain to get to, no easy trains, had to drive. The drive itself OK but as we got close we saw signs for a park and ride for the festival, and realised our original plan to park in the centre (not really knowing about the festiva) was probably not a goer. We parked at the park and ride, a temporary thing at the university campus by Chatham Dockyard and got the free bus in Rochester.
Rochester very busy, looks an interesting place anyway, much nicer than expected. The sweeps festival is a thing they do every May Day bank holiday. Lots of live music everywhere, lots of morris dancers, a fair, a record fair, all sorts. We had a bimble around and headed into the castle, our original plan. English Heritage see, so free for us. Doesn't take long to do the castle keep.
I found the record fair too intimidating, too much choice, so didn't look properly.
We went to a micropub looking place that looked great, The Wolfe and Castle.
Wife liked it a lot, lots of choice of craft beers. But not so much for me, no actual real ale, all cans and keg. We did find another one just out of town that was good, The Nag's Head, it had beer and a pool table, we played lots of pool. The one beer they had was so so, an Iron Pier hazy IPA, I did not love it. It was not a beer day for me luckily as I had to drive anyway. Then back to the centre of Rochester for a restaurant we had booked, Amore, Italian.
Best rated place in Rochester, and it was very nice indeed. Pasta and bread and olives and salad for everyone, very good, very tasty. Then back to the bus, to the car, the long drive home, and a bit of TV. A great bank holiday.
We canned our trip to London and instead changed to Rochester as T1 had to be back to go out this evening. But now that's off and we could have gone to London after all... Still sticking with Rochester though, we're not very good with last minute changes of plans.
225 feels like a milestone of sorts! It would be celebrated on Duolingo anyway, every quarter century like that. Anyway, nice day for it, surprisingly so. Not too warm though, just right. Was a popular day, look at that, over 500 runners. And I was on time, and I did a little sprint finish. But still not a great time. Could be connected to a full evening in the Potting Shed the night before.
Folkestone parkrun results for event #536. Your time was 00:26:40.
Congratulations on completing your 225th parkrun and your 204th at Folkestone parkrun today. You finished in 184th place out of a field of 501 parkrunners. You were the 145th male and came 13th in your age category VM50-54. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Folkestone parkrun remains 00:20:50. Your best time this year remains 00:24:35.
Spontaneously went to The Ship for dinner yesterday, and while we were there I booked tickets for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust at Festival Hall in July. Both boys want to come to this one!
David Bowie’s defiant fifth album is reimagined in incandescent fashion by David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O’Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah.
And after that wife started looking at some improvised theatre thing with surprise special guests in that we might book today. She's hoping it will have Ian McKellan in it but I think he is one guest confirmed for one day over the two week run... We'll look again later and hope it is still available.
Before our spontaneous meal out I had a nice parkrun and then some record shopping. Went to Vintage And Vinyl and bought the Geese album and took a chance on an EP by Zombie Killers, they're playing in the old Chambers next week. I have officially put my Misfits album up for sale, without opening it.
🚶 13:12 Shepway Walking 24'13 - Very brief lunch walk, more later. I did see more movement at the Sandgate Hotel, and several motorised surfboards showing off at sea.
Just lining up to get tickets to see Suede and The Manics, and I spotted at the last minute we have a clash and can't go! Good job I did that before forking out hundreds of pounds. I would go and see them again for sure, but was already in two minds about the O2. Now it is out of my hands.
Does seem to be a step up in venue size for them too. Now the Leas Cliff Hall and Portsmouth Guildhall were lovely, and we saw these two together in Margate. Why you have to ruin it with this enormodome anyway?
Now to explain to my friend in the pub who did get a ticket and I said I would go with...
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