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just watched and drank wole bottle of white burgundy in less than an hour.

i liek.

oh what a beautiful m... checks time, it is still morning MORNING!

Lovely. Have a bump.

To be fair, I am going to run in the rain, but I like running in the rain. Cycling, not so much.

Heard good things about the latest doc. That's saturday's breakfast/hangover viewing sorted then.

Don't use the shoe repair guy on Lower Marsh. He was well offish with me when I dropped in a pair of boots for new heels and rubber sole guards last week. Against my better judgement I paid him £34 (which I thought was well steep but reasoned I was doing the thrifty thing compared to splurging on new boots).

He insisted on me paying up front and was weirdly aggresive throughout the whole transaction. He then said he couldn't do them till Monday. On Monday he pleaded "waiting for materials", same on Wednesday and today when I ran down there in the p*ssing rain at lunchtime he was shut, the dodgy f*cker!

Asked the guys in Greensmiths over the road what the deal was with him and they laughed and told me a raft of similar stories all of which featured him being weird, flaking out, and generally not turning up to open the shop.

Elected to walkeneger today. Wise move I feel.

white tie, tails, spats, monocle

I like tortoiseshell on sunburst too...

*ninja edit

Could have my arm twisted if it wasn't miles away.

Oooh, that's awkward.

My contribution is a predictable "Get some flatwounds on it" and "Jam a sponge under those strings".

*Nothing if not consistant.

I like brown rice with piri-piri. It's got a nutty thing happening that I dig.

*soup residue high five

I have come here to admit a weakness for Pret A Manger mushroom risotto soup.

bless your "ruthless german efficiency"(TM)

luckily my skin's waterproof so I don't need them.

I "invented" a tuning recently. Got a song coming along in it. It's basically open D so:
DAGF# but then you leave the top two strings as normal B and E. It's really easy to make a big booming open D sound and fuck about with little riffs on the top two strings and when you barre all the strings (barre ALL the strings!) at the 5th fret for the 4 you get this weirdly retro-jazzy major 6th sounding things going on which immediately puts me in mind of M. Ward channeling Merle Travis. Figured out a couple of simple fingerings for the 5 and 6m and I'm away.

Must get back in the pool. Am turning to flab.

Fancy a wetsuited dip at Brockwell. Is it open after dark?

Man, I feel better after that little vent.

I'm off to burn some tyres in a nature reserve.

Can I have a little rant? I'm getting sick of smuggo bandwaggon jumping ignorami (including several people I really otherwise like) banging on about individual instances of weather as definitive evidence of climate change. Or worse, sarcastically mocking those who don't constantly make these spurious links as being "frogs in boiling water" or just generally backwards climate change deniers.

I am not a climate change denier. Given the available evidence and current scientific consensus it does rather look as if man's contribution to climate change is undeniable and potentially rather worrying.

I will admit however that I still have several lingering questions about the solidity of current predictions over tens and hundreds of years in the context of pre-existing cycles of tens of thousands and millions of years. But given the scientific consensus and lack of evidence to the contrary I have decided to take a rational approach which says: the apparent lack of disbenefit from doing what we can to limit our impact says to me, even if we turn out to be wrong we might as well do everything we can to limit our impact. That's the scientific, rational, logical, morally best approach right? Do least harm to ourselves, other people, the planet and everything on it. Or at least Do whatever it is that is most likely to minimize harm? That's where I've landed up after years of wanting to jump whole-heartedly on the climate change train but having niggling, lingering questions that I've never had an entirely satisfactory answer to.

But what gets on my tits is people who purport to be on the side of the planet in the name of science all that's enlightened, altruistic and great who go about laughing at informed and well meaning people who say things like "you can't link the current bad weather directly to climate change". Or earlier this week, Cameron's bold statement "flooding is linked to climate change" statement was greeted on twitter by thousands of fucking irritating twats responding "Duhhhh! You think?!" etc. These dullards do their cause no good at all.

^^nae worries Ed. I'm mildly obsessed with it at the mo'.

Few force 12s "hurricanes" on the forecast a couple of weeks ago. I can't recall ever hearing one before. Was a mark of quite how weird the weather's been of late that it passed almost unremarked upon.

Yup

*Fuck Datchet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26117416

*having been involved in railway works in the area for a few years, I've been amusing myself with childish Datchet puns for a good while now.

Datchet is funny.

Been reading all this with a heavy heart. Didn't know him but an awful business nonethless. Be excellent to each other.