Plans for gigs are beginning to shape finally. Went to a cinema last night and saw a documentary on Nick Drake’s life and a duo performing some of his songs, odd place for a gig but the chairs were so comfortable I contemplated stealing them all. A great way to spend a Sunday [...]
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Visited a couple of friends in Dundee this weekend, went to an awesome ceilidh and have the bruises to show for it. If Edinburgh is English then Dundee seems to be where the Northern Irish head. Scary number of medics there too. Visited a friend’s church and had the pleasure of listening [...]
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
More of the same, I have a cold, lectures have started, nothing is particularly eventful just yet but I have some wonderful new headphones .. Grado SR80s .. gorgeousness in my ears. Plan of joining frisbee has gone slightly askew, for a term at least. Jazz band at the freshers ball fused Use [...]
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Friday, September 16, 2005
We need to storm Edinburgh castle and claim the city back for the English. I’d guess at something between two-thirds and three-quarters of the people here are from South of the border. There’s rather a large American contingent too. Not much room left for the Scots it seems. Catered food is [...]
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Friday, September 2, 2005
I suppose I should add some thoughts of Reading. First off I should win an award for the number of trips made to the bogs in twenty-four hours, the fact my stomach was everywhere was no advantage. But after Saturday morning I managed not to go for another four days. Silly random [...]
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Went out for a leaving do last night. New kid, almost twenty-one and down from Manchester, spent the entire evening talking himself up and explained several times over how he regularly goes out til three each morning and still wakes afresh the next day. After six and a half hours in various quiet [...]
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Insightful lyrics of the moment from Victory at Sea -
All good things come to those who wait they say and you have waited.
You waited and watched yourself, you watched yourself, you turned into a rock.
In a good way, in a good way, in a good way, turned into a rock.
In a good way, in a [...]
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