A decent afternoon at the races…
Fun and games, although the betting was going very badly until the very last race.
A last ditch bet on the rank outsider (at 43-1 lol!) in the final run, and – following a 15 minute photo finish analysis by the powers that be – a result that meant we went home in a positive mood and with a beautifully positive bank balance.
Nice.
It’s what? Friday? Oh. Oh dear.
But, here’s your latest music news, and there’s lots of it.
THE CURE released their first album for 16 years, Songs Of A Lost World. True fans (you know who you are) have been expecting this for a while now, but I’m really enjoying the new stuff, mainly because a lot of it sound like their old stuff. And that, as we’ve mentioned before, is absolutely fine, thank you very much.
And they also did that Halloween gig for the BBC. Only available for 29 days here on Sounds, or here on iPlayer, but hopefully on Youtube for a longer time real soon now.
Good news: THE LATHUMS announced a new album and a tour.
Bad news: Djibouti misses out again.
Matter Does Not Define is out in March, but at least we have something new to keep us going in the meantime:
And finally, MAGNE FURUHOLMEN has released the first of his new songs – on his birthday, nogal (62, in case you were wondering) – and it’s all gravelly and piano-y and gentle and lovely.
And there’s obviously more to come:
first out is the title-track ‘living with ourselves’, and then one song will be added every friday until all songs on the album is out – or you’re exhausted, whichever comes first).
And a podcast to go with each release.
This has been a good Friday. Not like, the Easter one, but know what I mean.
Please remember that if you fail to keep up your payments to your exorcist…
…your home may be at risk of being repossessed.
I’m so sorry.
Spoiler: It’s not.
But there are some loons out there who still believe that it might be. Like these two:
“Concerned Citizen” – if that is his real name – shares a 12 second video of Devon, UK, with the caption:
What part of this looks ******** normal to you?
Honestly, the only bit that looks a bit weird is the sunshine in October, but even in the UK, that can happen from time to time.
But he’s going on about the aircraft contrails in the sky (best place for them, by the way).
And as ScottFree – if that is his real name – adds:
First they gave us disease, next its famine. The West is clearly under attack by dark forces. These are not contrails, this is geo-engineering.
Either that or Devon finds itself right underneath the main trans-Atlantic route from Europe to the Americas. I wonder which it could be?
I guess the only sure fire way to know is to see what the geo-engineering boffins of the “dark forces” have geo-engineered for Devon. Tornadoes? Hurricanes? Hail? Locusts?
Ugh. It’s worse than that.
My god. It’s going to be vaguely mild and partly cloudy for the foreseeable future.
The absolute bastards! How could they?
I mean, if you did have the power to geo-engineer the weather everywhere, firstly, why would you do it over Devon, which is pretty, but is also pretty inconsequential?
And secondly, is that really the best that you can manage? A variation of two degrees and some sunny spells over a 8 day period? Is the apprentice in charge this week or something? Start with the basics and then maybe add a shower or two next Wednesday?
Honestly, sometimes it feels like these twitter people just make shit up because they’re morons.
I finally got out and about yesterday morning, because my knee was feeling better and it was the last chance for the foreseeable future to get any sort of precipitation on my new jacket.
Things went… ok.
Look, the knee stood up to the challenge much better than I expected. And I avoided making any judgement on it yesterday, because I was waiting for whatever this morning threw at me after not going easy on it at all. But it’s all fine. It’s still purple, but it’s survived the run yesterday and the gym this morning and things are certainly improving.
The jacket did all that it could, but it didn’t have much to do. One brief shower was all that it got, but it did handle that very nicely. Its windproofing qualities were extremely good, and because of that, I can’t see myself wearing it too much over the summer months, when all you want is the cooling breeze on your skin. Maybe down on the coast in the early mornings, there might be some more use with the cool Atlantic air. And come winter… well, I can’t wait to get out and about in it.
There is a suggestion in the forecast that next Monday might be cool and damp. Maybe another test drive might be in the offing. But I do need to keep my proverbial powder dry, because it looks like the new 5-a-side season might be starting again next week.
Gone are the days where I could just do any and all of the exercise and not worry about there being any consequences the following day.
But I am still standing.