Discretion is the better part of valour...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Riverleaves
Nin-Culmell - Tonadas Volumes I-IV
Fuchs - Piano Sonatas 1 & 2
Various - Denovalo Swingfest Sampler
Mozart - Piano Concerto 12 arr. for Piano Quintet

A Saturday kind of split in three...

Part One - from 6am till around 2pm - spent uploading albums to Bandcamp - left me with two to do...

Part Two - over to Creek cohort Craig's for three, for our first physical meet up in around three years - his daughter Lucie is two and a half and this was our first meeting...

We were there ostensibly to reimburse his outlay for Depeche Mode tickets for a gig in November at a venue yet to be built...

Yesterday on the BBC website, there was a debate about the incessant filming of gigs on camera phones...

Reading the responses there gave me buyer's regret as I remembered the experience at the last DM gig I attended...

Truly, Hell is other people (at a concert or in the cinema anyway)...

Good to see Craig again and fun was had and chat was chatted, accompanied by some play dough stuff creation...



Mr Crocodile received much throwing about to the delight of a small child...

Annie the Cat remained unimpressed...

Home around 5:30 and finished off today's work before setting off into town...

Part Three - drinks and a meal...

To Ecco Vino...

...for half an hour or so before moving next door to The Gurkha Cafe - where Gurkha refreshment was enjoyed by your correspondent - probably too much Gurkha refreshment, truth be known...

Since we were last here, it seems the menu has changed and there is a new chef...

However, it was still tip top...

The Exec Producer proclaimed her chicken-based starter to have been one of the best starters since time began...

I was enjoying the food so much, it proved impossible to document matters...

...although this may have been down to the imbibing of Gurkha refreshment...

For those of you sensing a contradiction between my spouting above re gig behaviour and my incessant recording of everyday life, the difference is discretion... 

A bus home after an excellent night out, this tree catching my eye on the walk down the hill from the terminus to Crispycat Towers...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : All of it...