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Dancing Up A Storm
Posted Jun 28, 2005
Mmm. I'm sitting typing this at my bedroom window, and it's absolutely chucking it down outside. Thunder, lightning, rain coming down like stair-rods, you name it.
I haven't seen a storm like this since, ooh, Glastonbury Festival last Friday... and that time, I went to sleep and woke up to find a 15-foot wide river had suddenly sprung up on the hillside between me and all the amenities. I wonder if it could be the same one? Maybe I've caused this one by having accidentally performed some pagan ritual during all the dancing I did at the frestival.
Looking out of my window at the roof of the Kurdish Community Centre and the trees behind it next to the railway line, there's a warm red glow in the sky somewhere in the general direction of Sainsbury's. Maybe something's been struck by lightning and caught fire.
The Glastonbury storm lasted for about five hours of constant torrential rain. If this is going to be anything like it, it's a good job I've already taken my washing in and aren't planning to go anywhere tonight. Or tomorrow - in fact I'm off work until next Tuesday, and I'm going to Prague this Friday night for a stag weekend.
Time to rest and regenerate, I think. 
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Right - let's Glastonburize!
Posted Jun 22, 2005
Off to the West Country after work tonight - desperately trying to concentrate on the day job with mixed success...
Bring it on!
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Ten Guitars
Posted Jun 13, 2005
I only heard of the song in the first place in an old Billy Connolly sketch, where he was sick of playing folk clubs and being asked to play 'Ten Guitars' so he re-wrote the lyrics satirically.
Then I read reports that it was played when the NZ Maori beat the British & Irish Lions, did a little research and here we are.
I think it's brilliant how an Englebert Humperdinck B-side can become an
anthem for disenfranchised Maori in New Zealand.
http://folksong.org.nz/tenguitars/
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Something odd happened to me on Friday night
Posted Jun 12, 2005
At the very least, it's taken my mind off the '!' situation that's been getting me down. It was with another of my friend's workmates, who I've fancied ever since I met her last August.
Back then in August on the night I was first introduced to her, it was in a club and we just said hello and didn't really see each other again that night - and she met the bloke that became her boyfriend for several months. But we always got on very well whenever we encountered each other and I thought there was a bit of a spark between us, and for a while I hung on in hope that it wouldn't last with her bloke and I'd be able to leap in.
But by October (F106404?thread=475471&skip=24&show=26) I'd decided to leave the whole business as they seemed to be pretty established as a couple.
Then in January I bumped into her again, and they'd split up. Great, I thought - maybe something can happen now. Trouble was, it was him that had dumped her, and she was still really into him so no chance. I've been out a few times since then with a group of people including her, and last time she seemed a lot better and to have got over him.
In the meantime though, I'd concluded that she probably doesn't fancy me and it wasn't really likely that anything would happen between us, so it was best that I forget about her anything other than a friend. And, a couple of weeks ago, while we were all out we bumped into her ex in Shoreditch. Apparently since then she's seen him a few times.
Anyway, to get to the point. Went to a pub on Friday night where one of my mates was DJ-ing, and she was there. I'm going to Glastonbury with her and another of her friends (who I've become very good mates with because she fancies my DJ-ing mate) and a whole bunch of other people in a couple of weeks time. So we had a really nice chat about that - we both wondered about it might be a bit full-on going there with a group of 20 hardened party animals (we're no slouches ourselves, but sometimes you just need to chill out) and arranged a code word to use if we need to get away from the group and just go and hang out in the Stone Circle or something.
So, the end of the night came as it does at closing time - and it was time for the usual round of goodbyes, I said to her I was heading off with the boys (she lives in South London, me in North) and, as per usual in these situations, gave her a hug and went to kiss her on both cheeks.
And this is the thing. Having kissed her once on the left cheek, I was aiming for her right - accurately, too, I'd not had too much to drink - when she moved her head and kissed me on the lips. It happened so quickly and I was so surprised that by the time I realised it was happening it was over, so I didn't respond like I usually would. I mean, it was just a peck. But it seems like extremely unusual behaviour in this sort of situation.
And here's the really odd thing. Her friend told me on the way to the bus stop that she's just got properly back together with her ex, and she wasn't going home from the pub but was going to stay with him - in North London. But she hadn't mentioned any of this.
Anyway, both judging from the situation itself and also from the last few months, I'm sure it doesn't mean the thing I would like it to - i.e. that she fancies me, for one thing her friend doesn't think she does and she likes the idea of the two of us getting together. But equally I'm sure it ought to mean *something*. It's just I've no idea what. Maybe she just had a bit of a rush of blood to the head, or something.
Anyone got any idea? Frankly, I'm baffled.
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It's official, snooker is more popular than politics
Posted Jun 10, 2005
According to BBC data, 7.8 million people stayed up to watch the final of the Embassy Snooker World Championships whilst 6.8 million stayed up to watch the General Election result.
Well, there you go.
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Latest reply: Jun 10, 2005
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