Lunchtime ramblings
When we visited Leeds castle the other week, we were wondering what sort of convention they have there these days. The answer, of course, is that they have this sort of convention. Very nice. Hopefully.
I just had a bite to eat in KBU (or whatever it's called these days since the effective dismantling of the Union) and there were videos on. It's interesting watching VH1 at that time of day, because for some reason it's all Eighties stuff. A lot of the time it's dreadful old shite that I hated both at the time and to this day (Come in "We Built This City" - nothing is forgiven). Every so often, though, there's something I rather like that I hadn't realised actually had a video. Some time ago this was Pixies, but today it was the Dream Academy. It took me back in a lot of ways, as obviously Life In A Northern Town at the time involved rather a lot of industrial decline, urban dereliction and unemployment. I think it was shot in Manchester and Salford, as there was a shot that looked like the club the Smiths famously posed in front of. Apparently the song's about Nick Drake (who, oddly, I think has a single out currently), although he was apparently from Warwick, which isn't Manchester and isn't even Northern. Most strange.
Another interesting point is that I know know what Kate St John looks like. She was playing oboe in that production of the Black Rider, but we couldn't see into the orchestra pit from where we were sitting.
I just had a bite to eat in KBU (or whatever it's called these days since the effective dismantling of the Union) and there were videos on. It's interesting watching VH1 at that time of day, because for some reason it's all Eighties stuff. A lot of the time it's dreadful old shite that I hated both at the time and to this day (Come in "We Built This City" - nothing is forgiven). Every so often, though, there's something I rather like that I hadn't realised actually had a video. Some time ago this was Pixies, but today it was the Dream Academy. It took me back in a lot of ways, as obviously Life In A Northern Town at the time involved rather a lot of industrial decline, urban dereliction and unemployment. I think it was shot in Manchester and Salford, as there was a shot that looked like the club the Smiths famously posed in front of. Apparently the song's about Nick Drake (who, oddly, I think has a single out currently), although he was apparently from Warwick, which isn't Manchester and isn't even Northern. Most strange.
Another interesting point is that I know know what Kate St John looks like. She was playing oboe in that production of the Black Rider, but we couldn't see into the orchestra pit from where we were sitting.
I thought they were just upgrading it? *curses lack of a union in final year!!* (i haven't seen it since)
how poop!
.. I'd Better call Spectrum.
Now, I thought that they could tell through national insurance payments whether or not you were working/signing on/unemployed and all that, but actually they had absolutely no idea. I had to tell them what I was doing with something as high-tech as a telephone. It also occurs to me that I don't know anybody who has been caught committing benefit fraud.
Hmmmmm...
Braaaaaaazil...
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