Down in the blowy south, Barton on Sea, rain overnight and a good wind shaking the trees. Dogs are convinced that e are going to leave them behind and follow us around the house and won't let us out of their sight. Well - last time we brought them here we went off for two weeks to Crete, so they may have a point.
A quick stroll through Milton and checking out the old second hand and antique / junk shop on the highway. Not the time to be adding more stuff to our collections. Can hardly see most of the house at the moment anyway.
Updated the Crimson Moon website picture for a fine witch flying over the moon, and put together some posters for the forthcoming show at Crosshands Cinema - "Solstice at the Cinema" for 21st December 2012.
Seems I am now on the lineup so will have to do some practising.!!!
Also provided some blank versions and this now has the full line up ... will be playing with some really good artists..
No pressure then !!!
Cheese sandwiches and grapes for lunch - can't fault it....
What a lovely practise it is to change the clocks twice a year and confuse everybody's body clock. Strangely the dogs seem to take it in their stride- not wanting to get up any earlier this morning - but that could be because they take after their owners and are fundamentally lazy!
Had fun on the Book of Faces telling everyone to put their clocks back to a quarter to eleven - the official time inside the Crimson Moon every day...
"The time in the Crimson Moon is Quarter to eleven, Five minutes before drinking up time, time for one more drink.. Morning noon evening and night - always a Quarter to Eleven in the Crimson Moon .. always time for one more drink..."
Managed to upload another video from the Renewal festivities. this time Phil Wallace and Calum Forsythe who came back in their old characters as Tamarlaine as Mongols and Sang Nancy's song or "Rann's Song" "And Swallow!!" the song about the Mongols and the aftershock Challenge. Is not too bad a version considering the amount of noise at the party at the time..
Click to Play
Living room is manly clear now - the canvass is stacked upon the settee ready to be examined and checked for annual repairs. Clothes boxes are still stacked up but I think that we will have to sort all the costumes - after all I have a basement full of hanging costumes that will have to be stored away sometime - possibly a truck load of dress covers will do the job. Once the canvass is checked we should be able to get the carpets cleaned and perhaps put some furniture back into the room ...
Got the guitar out again yesterday and started working upon the old songs and possible new ones. Have the Solstice at the Cinema to think about for the 21st December at Crosshands - have to be original songs and most of mine are re-workings of familiar tunes. Am thinking Tapestry, Dance For me and seeing if I can sneak "Race you to Valhalla" in as it is still the most popular and rousing song I have.
Have a quirky little number that I started in Crete - well actually I think I was on the plane as the first lines came to me ... "Like a late night Kebab she'll be bad for you..." Not exactly a Romantic song this time - well - we will see where it goes !!!
So - A Sunday to finish household accounts. Business stuff up to date - well other than tax returns for last year - I should probably start work on that soon. Normally would not touch it till December - but this year it will make it easier to get more figures together for the business. But there is a box here full of bills and records for the last three months or so - everything on standing order sop no real problems - but you have to watch and check where the money is going sometimes - particularly as I am now moving out of the cash economy - that will be a shock to the system !!!.
May get out with the dogs as well. Sadly the Van is in the Van hospital this week. The fan belt rotting away was caused by a fuel leak which was spraying diesel onto the belt and the leak has to be found. Wondering if it is caused by using Bio- may have got through a pipe somewhere. But as a result - the Dogs were fairly peeved with me yesterday for not taking them out. May have to take a trip down to Burry Port and let them have a run on the way.
So to the end of the day and into the evening . The rain came in about lunchtime and it all got very miserable. Went out and bought two new curtain rails - have to keep the cold away somehow - and managed to put them up without them falling down - which is a bonus...
Didn't get around to the accounts .. so no change there.
Managed to edit another video form the August Period - will post that tomorrow - The Erin Navy singing outside the Tavern. Made me feel quite nostalgic!!
Smells like Sunday Dinner downstairs - a good old fashioned roast - so better go and get the G&T out...
Sunday dinner was good .. Got a picture from America
Beware the evils of drink.....
Up this morning surprisingly chipper - but had to clear a half eaten cheese and peanut butter sandwich from in front of the computer which had obviously seemed lie a good idea last night - or a vain attempt to absorb some units of alcohol - not much chance methinks.
Clothes neatly folded on the landing - didn't trust myself to wake the household,. Seems that I was convinced it was half past twelve not half past 2 - strange - I knew it was half past two when I left to come home... so must have been a little self deception.
But managed to maintain my unbroken record of "nil hangover" so can't have imbibed that much - much more the good company and conversation... though goodness knows whether the conversation actually included sentences by that time!
Just glad that I was only 40 yards away and the journey home was simple!!
So 10.47am and my second glass of diet coke and sitting at the blog before looking at Facebook and emails - which may be the way forward - having been a little remiss in the last few days in keeping a daily record.
Weather still holding fairly well. Van is in the garage - had the worrying symptoms of ignition light on and no power assisted steering - which really sounded as though it would be expensive - turns out that a small oil leak had managed to rot the fan belt away over the last 4 years - and the fan belt had disappeared - meaning that the first thing not to have charge was the power assisted steering - so not a large job after all!! Hasn't stopped the garage having the van for two days while they sort it out - but then I did just take it in and ask them to fix it between the vehicles that were properly booked in. When I said I was not in a hurry - i think that they took me at my word.....
Living room now 80% cleared - have only a few more boxes to sort and we can start on the examination of the canvass and repair where required. Normally a job scheduled for January and put off until March. But this year we can look at each section and then pack it away in its original covers which have not been used for years. It will be another stage of the packing procedure for the sale of the business.
Ho Hum ... lets see what is happening in the world ...
So - another Thursday comes around and not a lot of progress really other than catching up on some sleep.
The Living Room floor can be seen in places as I slowly re-box and re-stack all the accumulated contents of the Crimson Moon - forming an asset list as we go along.
Clearing the basement was a biggy - finding enough room to get everything stored.
Canvas that was already stored in the living room is now neatly stacked on the settees - awaiting checking and repair before being packed away for the last time.
Sadly - our option for a house swap for a farm has fallen through. The other parties are not yet ready to consider moving - so we have the uphill task of getting the house ready for sale now. Probably need to find somewhere for storage to get the place ready for a good house doctoring. Property is not moving very fast in this area and certainly not for substantial town houses - though maybe someone will look at it for conversion into flats...
Starting to seriously look for a smallholding now - seems to be a buyers market - but then we wil have to sell to be a buyer.
First pass at Tapestry as a video completed - need to redo the soundtrack and get the guitar work recorded in a better fashion. Hoping to call on friends to help me get the sound balanced properly.
Click to watch.... not a public link - so only accessible from this blog. Quite like the first attempt at storyboard for the video though.
May go and have a look at some property today - Rusty is whining again - getting bored. Not used to this sedentary life style I reckon...
So it is Friday evening and I somehow have managed to lose three days on the blog.
How did that happen?
well - alcohol for one - yes I accept that I went out Wednesday to a meeting and had rather a few ...
but I did dry the canvass and do some accounts and get some figures sent to interested parties...
well - exhaustion for one - I do seem to need a little more sleep at the moment - and it is not just old age !!
well - not being able to see the living room floor for accumulated rubbish which is the Crimson Moon ...
well - doing some video work to get something from the walk together...
This is for the ladies (advisory on language and sexual content..)
So the canvass has all been nicely washed.
Well - not intentionally
Yesterday it was a lovely morning and so I hung all the canvass from the Hadrian's Wall Walk out in the back hard-standing so that it could dry after being in the wet trailer since the deluge on the mountains on Friday...
And so it was that by lunchtime the skies had opened again and all was getting wet...
A brilliant idea - I used the ;large green Tarpaulin to cover the lot up - allowing most to stay relatively dry - or so I had hoped....
What actually happened was that it managed to catch about 2 feet of water in the middle - and then the canvass that was looped managed to create a small swimming pool and a small aquarium and water tank of pools...
But the weather this morning is bright and sunny so having managed to drag all the green away and soak myself in the meantime - nothing like a fresh shower first thing in the morning!! and re-hang the canvass - there is a chance to dry them all today ...
Looking at devastation in the living room - the main contents of the Crimson Moon spread over the carpet to 5ft high. Garage full and needing sorting. Accounts need to be done and an asset list ...
Ho Hum...
Where to start - hmm - if in doubt - sort everything into piles and it at least looks as though your achieving something... Start with the laptop I think..
Well .. I can see the floor now at any rate ...
It is a little like having a hangover I have decided!!.
You wake up early and you are stiff all over your body - with the fatigue of over used muscles. Sort of Flu without the illness! In this case it is to try to run the gauntlet of the Doctor Surgery Phone Lottery at 8.30am - trying to get an appointment to see someone. Not for me - Susie seems to have got herself a hernia by the symptoms.
Manage to do a little accounts work - starting the asset listing for the sale of the Moon.
10am - the sun is shining - though the energy levels are still running very low.
Time to get the canvass out of the trailer and do something with it.
Managed to get them all hanging in the sun - thought still a little cold - and went in for breakfast.
Susie back form the doctors by now - midday - and heading off to the hospital to make appointments for scans and stuff.
And then of course - it starts to rain !!!!
Would take too long to take down again so I pull the large green tarpaulin over the lot and hope for the best!!!
