Tuesday 29 December 2009

It's just possible that what sounded quite like a CD last week could become one, so plans to post our Edinburgh Festival recordings online are on hold for a wee while yet.

After over a week, white Christmas included, it's still all white and slippery outside, so I've been indulging in hibernation. I have an unprecedented collection of eye diseases at the moment, so I don't feel much like going anywhere anyway, other than in the direction of a good ophthalmologist.

Tidying up for visitors has made me aggregate all the piles of undone paperwork around my desk into two main collections while the other pile on my desk remains untouched.  I might make myself deal with at least some of this before doing anything more enjoyable. After getting attached to Martyn Jaques's Yamaha APXT-1 guitar a few weeks ago, I tracked a similar one down and successfully bid for it on eBay, so its imminent arrival is one incentive to get the paper off the floor. Also, a message came in from Sushil yesterday that he's recording an album next week, so that could make for an entertaining afternoon or two.  

Assorted medications mean that I can't always focus well enough to read, but recently I've made it to the end of 1960 in the complete Peanuts, read Innumeracy (I was trying to be ironic by spelling it wrong but got it right by mistake), and got halfway through David Rizzio & Mary Queen of Scots before my eyes packed up, while browsing the Beatles Anthology book and stealing my son's copy of TV Burp, which reminds me of the Goodies books of my youth. Oh, and Kim Deitch's enthralling Alias the Cat (thanks to Marie F).