Staff training day: today we learnt how to teach kids who are gifted and or talented. The baked potatoes were nice, and I had two puddings.
9°C, N-wind, overcast. C=61 miles
Rode under E. Midlands airport flightpath, the jets were making the Stuka sound.
London: a trip to the theatre. Entirely performed in Japanese, with minimal sets that seemed to combine stage design of Brecht and traditional Japanese music
(Nõ). The first 40 mins took a bit of work to plough through for me, but after that, I was in. It became an intimate emotional experience, the language was no problem- taken care of by translations displayed on the wall. Would that I knew even basic Japanese. Anyway, full stars or whatever accolades you like, stuff like this makes cinema seem weak.
9°C, brighter, no frost.
And the cat wonders why he is put outside at night.
5°C, light cloud, some stars.
The Curious case of Benjamin Button Was that a long film? It touched on some raw nerves that film. The poignant themes were carried on concept of an odd man who grew younger as those around him aged. The power laid in the big life issues that we all often have to deal with: love, loss, longing and the clash between life-long desires and moving our lives onwards. Even though it was nearing 3 hours (incl. adverts) I thought some parts could have been longer, it seemed a big heavily cut in parts. That’s Hollywood I suppose.
List of things to do: get bike wheel rebuilt, frame some photos; finish “reader” portrait; home decorate,
More A6 time passing.
I have more CDs: The Eels, Johan Johannssen. and one that is so relentlessly poor that I shalln’t name it.
A reliable source (PixieJojo) tells me that these ridges were cut by farmers during the 1940s. They were under instructions from the Govt. ministry who hoped for an increase in yield. I can see their thinking.
The rest of the ride was in sleet which changed its mind and became proper snow.
4°C, clear, sunny, snow lingers.
Warwick Arts Centre, film:initially I thought this would be like a documentary, but it turned out to be a very powerful story that wove politics, sexuality, personal tragedy into a compelling story. It wasn’t all that long ago, significant events happened in the mid-seventies, years I can recall.
Please someone suggest what the thinking was behind this apostrophe. Not possessive, so it’s the missing letter game.
Can any scrabble experts suggest a word for thr_o. Anyone…?
Whiteout sky and ground is now fading towards bland slushy grey. It’s blandly heading towards lake black. 
Normally, the little green characters would be running about in this view, maybe they are getting tired of the snow. Maybe they aren’t coming to school today.
Micycle 