The building has left Elvis...

Blimey, Elvis is dead! When did that happen?

So it’s thirty years today since he waddled into his favourite khazi in Graceland and failed to come out again. Three decades on, medical science has reached a point where we know that eating deep-fried peanut butter and jam sandwiches made with an entire loaf and a couple of pounds of butter is not likely to do much for your long-term health. The 1970s were a much simpler time, though, and only weirdy-beardies went near tofu and bean sprouts.¹ Thus it was that the King of Rock’n’Roll died with his trousers around his ankles and butter on his chin; an ignominious end to the man who stole Carl Perkins’ thunder and went on to become the greatest exponent of popular music of all time²

Seriously, folks. Thirty years. Get over it.


¹I am joking, of course. The situation has not changed a great deal except that the weirdy-beardies now only rarely wear kaftans in the street.

²Except for the Beatles. And Bob Dylan. And Roy Orbison. And The Everleys. And the Rolling Stones. And The Clash. And The Police. And The Bay City Rollers<sup>3

3</sup>Bay City Rollers? Where’d they come from?

The building has left Elvis...

Blimey, Elvis is dead! When did that happen?

So it’s thirty years today since he waddled into his favourite khazi in Graceland and failed to come out again. Three decades on, medical science has reached a point where we know that eating deep-fried peanut butter and jam sandwiches made with an entire loaf and a couple of pounds of butter is not likely to do much for your long-term health. The 1970s were a much simpler time, though, and only weirdy-beardies went near tofu and bean sprouts.¹ Thus it was that the King of Rock’n’Roll died with his trousers around his ankles and butter on his chin; an ignominious end to the man who stole Carl Perkins’ thunder and went on to become the greatest exponent of popular music of all time²

Seriously, folks. Thirty years. Get over it.


¹I am joking, of course. The situation has not changed a great deal except that the weirdy-beardies now only rarely wear kaftans in the street.

²Except for the Beatles. And Bob Dylan. And Roy Orbison. And The Everleys. And the Rolling Stones. And The Clash. And The Police. And The Bay City Rollers<sup>3

3</sup>Bay City Rollers? Where’d they come from?

Bunged

I have a cold. In the middle of summer, I have a cold. Typical.

To begin with I thought it might be hay fever, or dust irritation when I started sneezing yesterday, but a night and a morning of blocked nose and clogged sinus have decided me that it’s a cold. Not a heavy one, just an annoying one.

Heavy sinuses in warm weather seem to be far more antagonising than the same in cool weather.

On a plus note, we move back to the main office over the weekend of 1-2 September. We have been told that we are to vacate the building by noon on 31st. That'll be a two hour day, then.

Fantastic.

Bunged

I have a cold. In the middle of summer, I have a cold. Typical.

To begin with I thought it might be hay fever, or dust irritation when I started sneezing yesterday, but a night and a morning of blocked nose and clogged sinus have decided me that it’s a cold. Not a heavy one, just an annoying one.

Heavy sinuses in warm weather seem to be far more antagonising than the same in cool weather.

On a plus note, we move back to the main office over the weekend of 1-2 September. We have been told that we are to vacate the building by noon on 31st. That'll be a two hour day, then.

Fantastic.