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Posted Apr 16, 2016
I have now shifted out to K, and the flat in A is getting repaired/done up with a view to sale or ... whatever.
The move took a morning. There is a room full of boxes full of LPs CDs and books.
The two cats are now in the same house with the doors open. They will learn to get on.
Ditto, I suppose, me and S.
It's the end of week 2 of Spring hols. One more week off for the students, then the revision week, then exam fortnight.
I seem to have been nominated for a teaching excellence award. (!)
I doubt that I'll win but I'll look our a posh frock nevertheless.
Not much of a holiday - boxing things up and marking and going up and down stairs carrying stuff. It's awful but I find that my first thought on the first day of any holiday is generally 'I'm so behind.'
K is quite nice. A has gone down the pan. Everything that made it good - my place of employment excluded(but I have to say that) - has been closed or knocked down or turned into a pound shop/bookie/mobile phones unlocked...
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1st Jan
Posted Jan 1, 2016
I was in bed by the back of ten and slept through midnight pretty much about as well as one can sleep through a 30-minute fireworks barrage, which was actually well enough indeed. Miah was out in it but close inspection this morning does not disclose any damage, physical or mental.
I went to K y/day via Inv. The Inv was for shopping. S caught the bus through and we stocked up. There are no buses today so she is in K and I am in A. I have taken some work to do. Will I do it? I have just had eggs and toast for breakfast and there is a big load of washing in the machine. I am reading Hunter S Thompson's letters. HST had some good stuff in him but he had no quality control mechanism. No facility for self-criticism. He is repetitive and clearly believes that what he writes is pure gold, and that he is wonderful for having written it, and everyone must love it therefore him. He writes from an irritating position of 'I have the inside dope on what's really going down'. Sure, this gave us Fear and Loathing but it also gave us a long fag-end career of shorter and shorter crapper and crapper recycling of F&L.
Stockhausen on R3 tonight. Michty! A throwback to the 70s. Hymnen. I shall probs listen.
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Another year
Posted Sep 5, 2015
Freshers week kicks off on Monday. Another year.
S and I went to see The Beaux Stratagem at the Belmont on Thursday.
We visited a solar'd to the eyeballs house out in the country today.
I am still in A while S is in K. I'll still be here for the winter break and beyond.
Miah doesn't mind. She has not taken to K.
I'm sitting listening to Yo Yo.
I have a cold coming on. I probably picked up an infection from Peet on Thursday.
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I got the speakers then I got an Arcam CD player
Posted Aug 11, 2015
... and I'm thinking about shifting out the good Marantz amp this weekend.
Introducing Miah to Kemnay and to Emmy is proving challenging. Miah has taken to hiding in the allotments of a morning and ignoring my puss puss solicitations - she things she's going to be nabbed and boxed and driven to ane ither catt's domain for a few days.
The thing is, once Emmy realises that she has a visitor, she avoids the house 'til the all-clear gets sounded.
Teaching resumes in a month.
I am reading Rebus and Whisky Galore. Listening to whatever I fancy - it all sounds great on the new set-up. I had my six-monthly haircut this morning. I will spend the night reading and listening to the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
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