2012 — 2 January: Monday
I spent the rest of yesterday evening listening to some incredibly crackly vinyl record choices played by Guy Garvey and just puttering gently around.1
Prompted in part by a text message that I deduce I'd received while my phone was in my jacket pocket in a distant cloakroom, but which I was unable to persuade the damned gadget to let me respond to, I've also dug out another of the small set of photos Leigh passed on to me a couple of weeks ago. They were taken on 4th August 2007 when she and Ann called in for the day...
... to say 'farewell' to Christa, basically, and because her deteriorating health by then had already meant we couldn't attend their then-pending civil partnership ceremony.
I must say, the weather back then was in stark contrast to the last few hours. I need hardly add that I consider myself a very lucky chap to have, and to have had, such a delightful2 trio of women (inter alia) in my life.
Stamp of approval
All I'd say is "about bloody time". (Link.)
And now (09:56) it's time I wasn't here, as I need to be there for a walk in this morning's glorious sunshine (which, if the BBC can be believed, is about the last we'll see of it for the rest of this week at least).
[Pause]
And back, after 6.2 miles or so of often rather muddy, squishy terrain. It's good for us. The sun never got very high, the wind was distinctly chilly, but we found a log carved into seating for our lunch at the 5 mile point, and watched several flocks of geese honk past overhead as we ate.
My strange memory...
When I downloaded the Adam Freeland remix of the Sarah Vaughan track "Fever" the other evening (the music used at one point during a chase sequence in The Adjustment Bureau) I had a nagging feeling I'd seen his name before. Turns out to be him doing his re-mixing thing on the first track of that eye-strainingly odd little compilation CD I bought quite a while ago called "Annie Nightingale presents Y4K".
Dead Kennedys
Not being a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy theorist, I was blissfully unaware of "The Umbrella Man". Errol Morris has made a nice little video you can find here. I, for one, would never have come up with the 'true' explanation.