Friday 27th December 2013 – AND STARTING AS I MEAN TO GO ON …

… I’ve had another day of rest today. And quite right too. I owe myself several from my exertions early in the year.

So even though it was still not light when I woke up, it was 10:00 when I heaved myself out of the stinking pit and into the land of the living. And while I was breakfasting, I watched an episode of The Saint where he is in Haiti with the zombies and the undead – and didn’t that bring back many happy memories of my time with the Open University Students Association?

It’s not really true to say that I had a day of rest though. In fact I attacked the database that I’ve been making and now that’s finished completely. And I’m astonished at what it’s thrown up. Quite clearly, I’ve not been keeping track of what I’ve been playing, and anyone can tell that Hawkwind has been my most favourite group during this whole series of radio programmes.

I need to shuffle the pack quite a lot, that’s for sure. But at least, doing these twice-weekly rock shows is giving me a good excuse to expand my CD collextion, so I’m not complaining.

And after that, I did the studio show for the next month’s programmes. As for the live concert, that’s tomorrow’s task. And I’m not even quite sure what concet I’m going to pick. Whatever it might be, it won’t be as stunning as the last three concerts that I’ve produced. They have been outstanding.

Tea wasn’t so successful tonight. I didn’t get the fire hot enough and so it took ages to cook the spuds. I consequently put the sprouts in too early and so they were overcooked. Cooking with this woodstove is a bit hit-and-miss, that’s for sure, but it’s doing the business here and saving on the bottled gas. If I can put these three extra solar panels up some time soon, I’ll have enough electricity in the summer to cook electric with the steamer and the slow cooker – won’t that be progress?

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