Category: old blogging

Right: let’s deal with all the questions you want answered:

• What did you cook for Charlie and Peeet, Graybo?
• Lime and chilli trout fillets. Strikingly simply and very tasty, using a Waitrose recipe. Served with new potatoes, and chocolate mousse for dessert. And, of course, much wine was consumed, with lots of conversation and Jenga.
• What did you buy in Brighton?
• Stupidly, not the one thing I really needed – a new shower curtain. The one I bought recently isn’t quite long enough, so water trickles down the side of the bath and onto the floor. So I need a slightly longer one, which I was going to get in Habitat, but forgot. So I’ll look in A&N later. But what I did buy was some cheese at the food fair by the Pavilion, some shoes and five CDs, as well as a beer in a pub and some bread and olives to go with the cheese for a late lunch at Kate’s new flat.
• What CDs did you buy?
• Susumu Yokota – The Boy and The Tree
• Susumu Yokota – Sakura
• Appliance – Six Modular Pieces
• Animals That Swim – The Moon And The Mothership
• Amon Tobin – Bricolage
• Any amusing anecdotes or observations for us, Graybo?
• Not many. Has to be said that Brighton has a real attitude, and I’m not sure it is entirely good. Yes, it is an amazingly interesting and exciting and vibrant place, which I love visiting and walking around, with a real cosmopolitan and slightly continental flavour. But it also has a strident arrogance that is all-pervasive – there are people there who firmly believe that they are cool just by being in the city, and have a real "look at me" mentality. If you’re not cool, there must be something wrong with you. Unless you’re being deliberately retro or something. That whole attitude strikes me as a little unhealthy, and is one of (several) reasons why I love Brighton, but wouldn’t want to live there.
• What are your plans for today?
• In spite of it being Fathers’ Day, I won’t be seeing Dad today. I do need to go and buy him a gift, so I suspect a trip to the off-licence is in order. I also need to buy a shower curtain, as I’ve already discussed. And I need to go to Waitrose for some provisions. Other than that, I may take the laptop down to Priory Park, as I need to do some work, but it is much too fine today to stay inside.

Beer with DA, DA (as I said I’d mention him twice for failing to mention him last time), Kearn, Jeremy, Simon, Stein, James, Paul F, Helen, Hamish, Ruth, Al, Lyn, Arron, Matt, Cat and various other usual suspects.

Charlie and Peeet over for dinner last night.
Poked about the shops in Brighton today with Kate.
Full report later. Now pooped.
Sometimes text messages at 1am are an annoyance. Sometimes they are almost exactly what you want.

Furniture construction completed. Now to nip out and break the law with some illegal signs. Again.

A tartan of old ladies.

It took the whole of the day yesterday to construct the shelf unit and desk for my office. All I have left now is a four-drawer pedestal unit, and I get the feeling that it could take another whole day to do.

Gah! I could play this all night, and I haven’t finished tidying yet!

Charlie and Peeeeet are coming over for dinner tomorrow evening. So I’ve made sure the flat is ready for them – a fresh crate of beer and two bottles of wine in the fridge. Oh, and I have bought the food too. I’ve also packed a whole load of stuff into the car to take over the office – it’ll be good to finally have PFE all in one place.

I’ve just taken delivery of the new Ulrich Schnauss album, A Strangely Isolated Place (on City Centre Offices records). I think it’s brilliant. Pitchfork review here.

Today’s main task: assembly of flat-packed office furniture. So far, I’ve done the shelf unit, which took ages. It has so many nuts and bolts and screws, I can’t imagine it will ever fall apart. Looks good though, so well pleased.
Next: the desk.