Wrapped up in time

So I took some time off.....go sue me, hey I helped Scotland remain part of the union! I'm bound to be
tired, ok so I did a short blog and that was that, I got wrapped up in other stuff but basically proved three blogs in one day was way too much as apathy ruled amongst my readers it barely made double figures initially and although its catching up it may take a while to hit the heights I have come to expect for my little cherubs that I publish..

Then life just over took me, lots of spinning plates at work and while I had tons of ideas to post I really couldn't be arsed after work to blog, so I left it and then my holidays were upon us, there was me thinking that I was in charge of my own life and it ran past me slapping me on the back of the napper laughing at the old fat man!

Fish had been going to play earlier in the year but he lost a guitarist due to illness and the gig was put back, I spat my dummy out ( I was in the middle of my treatment) and got a refund swearing I wasn't going to the rescheduled gig, thankfully SMOR turned up and talked me into going, we met up at The Bishops Mill pub in Durham not after a climb up to the top of K2, this getting old malarkey is really crap, firmly fixed into place I actually saw a few people who I knew from "The Company" and after some brief hello's we settled down to generally taking the piss we headed across to the venue after a few (ahem) drinks only to see Fish himself dashing up the road away from the venue, oooh was this a good start, as it turns out there was nothing to worry about, we found out what the time the start of the gig was and promptly headed back to the pub, were by I was pounced upon by people asking me what time the gig started, must have been my fish heads fleece , my public duty done we had a few more drinks before we headed back to the venue.

Am I going to review the gig hell no all I will say is that it was a fantastic gig apart from the flash light gestapo who nearly set the wife off on a killing spree, our original tickets where way up in the balcony and although they would have been great we ended up three rows from the front, my only gripe was that there wasn't a lot of banter (first night teething problems) but it easily goes into my top ten Fish gigs (that was my 52nd time seeing him solo) the set list I enjoyed although I knew what it was I didn't particularly look forward to  it, but it worked and I honestly had no complaints. gig ended back to the pub, with a slight diversion, we couldn't get to the pub we wanted to get to as it was fresher's week, we ended up in the slug and lettuce (crap name crap pub with a five pound hike in prices for the same drinks!) and then when we discovered it was closing, so we headed back to base camp (the car) thankfully via a flatter route. upon arrival we discovered that some of the shopping that "I" had left in the car had upended and partially emptied into the well for the spare wheel, oh dear at least the car smelt clean (it was clothes conditioner for the washing machine) we did a good deed and threw SMOR and his good lady out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, we then headed home and made it within 30 minutes (ye gods pray for me) and soon headed up the wooden hill for some well deserved sleep.

Tuesday was great just me and the missus doing things we very rarely get to do, I even took the good lady wife out to dinner, bless me I had to make the most of it, Wednesday the house erupted with Ebola or some other such disease, ok it was flu and thankfully I wasn't affected but everybody else was, so the rest of the week was really me looking after the corpses that roamed the house, it did hit me in the tonsils (still suffering but soldering on) but we kept going as a unit and we didn't leave anybody behind.

Illness scuppered our plans to go and visit E as we certainly didn't want her to get our illness, but she did escape and I as I type she has  headed out for lunch so hopefully this will turn into good times (they both deserve them), last night we headed into town to hook up with peeps who we hadn't seen in a while, and a jolly good night was had by all and a huge discussion about music bands gigs etc between myself and Mr G was greatly appreciated, however as I sit typing this trying desperately getting into Marillion albums without Fish, I have to admit I just can't, they are great and atmospheric but where are the hooks, the memorable lyrics and most of all the songs! I like them but they are not what I want good luck to them but nah sorry I think not!

Did we do everything that we intended to do with the time I was off don't be silly, but we did make some cunning plans on what we intend to do in the coming months good times hopefully. the book was one thing that took a back seat again rest assured it is finished but I think I'm going to need a hand (the wife) from my I.T department! An early night tonight as  I'm back to the grind tomorrow with some odd hours in this coming week and worry not there will be more regular blogs coming along the track, the numbers of the blogs have chugged along, with a few new readers in Italy welcome Mario and Lucas keep spreading the disease and I will be back soon so until then Toodles!