(no subject)

Hello to mezzogiornouno.

I am having difficulty - strike that - finding it impossible to identify you via your nom de guerre...

ETA: Hey up, Tarps.

(no subject)

Hello to mezzogiornouno.

I am having difficulty - strike that - finding it impossible to identify you via your nom de guerre...

ETA: Hey up, Tarps.

Bo Diddley

Good night and God Bless to Bo Diddley. The light from another music legend winks out.

His live act, a meeting of blues and rock 'n' roll, featured Jerome Green, Otis Spann, Billy Boy Arnold, Frank Kirkland, and, later, his half-sister "The Duchess".

Though his songs influenced Buddy Holly in the 1950s, it was in the following decade that his songs permeated the repertoires of the so-called British invasion bands like The Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Who, Pretty Things and The Animals.

Bo Diddley toured extensively throughout the 1960s and 70s. By supporting The Clash in 1979, he introduced his sound to a new generation.

Bo Diddley: December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008

Bo Diddley

Good night and God Bless to Bo Diddley. The light from another music legend winks out.

His live act, a meeting of blues and rock 'n' roll, featured Jerome Green, Otis Spann, Billy Boy Arnold, Frank Kirkland, and, later, his half-sister "The Duchess".

Though his songs influenced Buddy Holly in the 1950s, it was in the following decade that his songs permeated the repertoires of the so-called British invasion bands like The Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Who, Pretty Things and The Animals.

Bo Diddley toured extensively throughout the 1960s and 70s. By supporting The Clash in 1979, he introduced his sound to a new generation.

Bo Diddley: December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008

The weather

Today I shall be talking about the weather. It is what we English do, you know: grumble about it being too hot, or too cold; too wet, or too dry. It is a fine tradition of some years standing and far be it for me to break such an august national characteristic.

I think I may safely say that we have dispensed with the traditional summer. We have the long hours of daylight certainly. We have the warmth of summer, too, though not the heat. We seem to be importing US style humidity and Indian subcontinent monsoon, however, and I feel that something has gone awry with the climate of the country that gave us Constable’s Hay Wain and Dedham Vale. We have, instead, that of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. It is dull, overcast, warm and humid with near-constant if light, rain during the day. At night it is just too warm to sleep comfortably until about 3.30am when it becomes just too cool to sleep comfortably, after which we have sunrise, which makes it just too light to sleep comfortably.

I think I want my money back. This isn’t quite what I signed up for. Where is my equable climate, the one I remember from my youth?

The weather

Today I shall be talking about the weather. It is what we English do, you know: grumble about it being too hot, or too cold; too wet, or too dry. It is a fine tradition of some years standing and far be it for me to break such an august national characteristic.

I think I may safely say that we have dispensed with the traditional summer. We have the long hours of daylight certainly. We have the warmth of summer, too, though not the heat. We seem to be importing US style humidity and Indian subcontinent monsoon, however, and I feel that something has gone awry with the climate of the country that gave us Constable’s Hay Wain and Dedham Vale. We have, instead, that of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. It is dull, overcast, warm and humid with near-constant if light, rain during the day. At night it is just too warm to sleep comfortably until about 3.30am when it becomes just too cool to sleep comfortably, after which we have sunrise, which makes it just too light to sleep comfortably.

I think I want my money back. This isn’t quite what I signed up for. Where is my equable climate, the one I remember from my youth?

(no subject)

Hello also to jennifervescent.

I know ye not, but welcome aboard for as long as you wish to stay. I know your info page says that you don't expect to be added back, but I have done so anyway. Balance in all things, I say.

(no subject)

Hello also to jennifervescent.

I know ye not, but welcome aboard for as long as you wish to stay. I know your info page says that you don't expect to be added back, but I have done so anyway. Balance in all things, I say.

It just upped and died...

At lunchtime the Management Agents emailed me the draft tenancy agreements for the new flat.

Both ellefurtle and I are relieved that we are apparently not liable for the well-being or otherwise of any pot plants the landlords choose to leave in our keeping when we take over the flat.

It is a small, but important mercy for a couple where the concept of the “green finger” (or “green thumb”, if you live over The Pond) is more likely to indicate circulatory problems than it is any acuity with plant husbandry.

It just upped and died...

At lunchtime the Management Agents emailed me the draft tenancy agreements for the new flat.

Both ellefurtle and I are relieved that we are apparently not liable for the well-being or otherwise of any pot plants the landlords choose to leave in our keeping when we take over the flat.

It is a small, but important mercy for a couple where the concept of the “green finger” (or “green thumb”, if you live over The Pond) is more likely to indicate circulatory problems than it is any acuity with plant husbandry.