radio grayblog: fifteen tracks added, ten removed. The playlist is now wildly inaccurate, so I’ll update that at some point in the next 24 hours, but we are now at full capacity: 99 MB of music equating to 121 tracks. And, especially for Brian, I’ve added The Tornados’ classic hit Telstar and the Equals’ Baby Come Back from (?)1968. I’ve also made a belated tribute to Joe Strummer, by adding The Clash’s London Calling. The majority of the remaining 12 tracks are downtempo in style, although there is a little drum n bass in there for bouncing around your office to.
UPDATE: Playlist now up-to-date.
Month: January 2003
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radio grayblog: fifteen tracks added,
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On Robert Fortune, the great
On Robert Fortune, the great Scottish plant hunter:
The 1848 expedition [to China] was not merely to collect specimens but was one of the early instances of industrial espionage. Fortune had been charged with the task of learning the art of tea growing and then obtaining samples of the shrubs. The gardener who had arrived in China in 1843 unable to speak the language returned five years later, learned the secrets of tea making and disguised as a Chinese peasant smuggled tea plants from China into India and in so doing established the tea industry in India and Ceylon.You just don’t get people like that these days, do you? Biography here.
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Added Discogs to the list
Added Discogs to the list of music links in the sidebar. Very useful.
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Coventry 0 – Brighton 0
Coventry 0 – Brighton 0 – and Brighton seemed to be all over the Coventry goal according to the text commentary on the Beeb. But since other teams at the sharp end of Division 1 either won or drew, the point earned hasn’t really helped us. So, it looks like Division 2 for Brighton next season, miracles notwithstanding.
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Done items one to four
Done items one to four on the list below. Struggling with item 5, although I’ve done some laundry – might push the hoover around in a minute, then have dinner before tackling item 6.
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A bright sunny morning with
A bright sunny morning with clear blue skies – perfect for producing the positive and forward-looking mood that I need. On today’s agenda:
- purchasing some new smart PJs
- a visit to the bank to make a deposit and obtain some dollars ready for next week’s trip to Santa Barbara (where, apparently, my hosts are picking oranges from the tree in their back garden or "yard")
- lunch from the cornish pastie shoppe (this is turning into a dangerous addicition)
- a stroll around the city, perhaps including some time on my favourite bench in Priory Park if I am warm enough
- some tidying of the flat
- drinks with Lord Percy and Lady Bren tonight.
Sounds like a reasonably good day to me.
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Beer tonight with Paul F,
Beer tonight with Paul F, Arron, Kearn, Guy and Nicky, with sightings of Hamish, Terry, Sasha, DJ and several other familiar folk. Home again, home again, jiggity-jig.
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Tonight, I shall be spending
Tonight, I shall be spending the evening with friends.
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Not a good morning this
Not a good morning this morning. Joanna and I have decided that we really don’t have the right stuff to make our relationship work, which is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It’s difficult, because we both love one another and have shedloads in common, but we’re just not strong enough, either of us, to provide what the other needs.
I think it is the first time in my life that a decision to stop a relationship has been truly mutual. In a way it is easier, as the hurt is more evenly shared than in a dumper/dumpee scenario. And because we both feel it, hopefully it will be for the best in the long run.
Still, I feel pretty pants right now.