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World HQ.

July 19th. 2003…

Yesterday…

Today…

Ambient Dave & Kevin have been at work.

Kitchen extensions at HQ & next door are being carried out in tandem: the properties were built as a pair. My neighbours are retiring here this Summer & carrying out renovations in preparation for their post-mature years. They have engaged the building firm that takes care of my own structural interests, and incorporating some of our ideas. It seems obvious that HQ’s kitchen be rebuilt at the same time as theirs - a glance at the pic above suggests why.

Carpet fitters are visiting Chez Fripp-Willcox & laying the remaining 25% of carpet that the Italian suppliers overlooked sending for their last visit.

Shortly, off to the Scala, Pentonville Road, to cheer for Robyn Hitchcock & Minus Three.

DGM HQ.                   01.24

Just arrived from London with David, who was a big Soft Boys fan while studying philosophy at Cambridge. David trained up from Salisbury to Kings Cross & met us at the Scala, just across the road from the station.

We met with Bill Rieflin & Frankie at the venue & the four of us set off in search of a coffee establishment. Anyone familiar with Kings Cross knows this to be an unlikely event. The station seems to have removed sitting establishments, other than the pub. We bought platform coffees & teas, standing against the blue wall to drink them.

There were several London-based Crafties at the show, a Clear Channel event…
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Eighteenth Day of May were the deservedly well-received support to a nearly-full house that filled for Robyn Hitchcock. Minus Three were an excellent support trio, plus additional help from Morris Windsor (once a Soft Boy, always a Soft Boy he told me backstage) on vocals & percussion.

An excellent evening with one major bummer: the smoke. It is no longer possible for me to stand in a space where people have the legal entitlement to blow their smoke over my clothes, onto my hair & into my lungs for a period of nearly 3 hours; and where I have no entitlement to disagree. For much of the show I had to listen from the (just offstage) dressing room.

David & I left Kings Cross just after 23.00. One interesting non-arising: we listened to BBC4 midnight news in the car. The main story for BBC4 18.00 news was Google’s entrance to China: major news, big trumpets. The midnight news had not one mention of the word Google. Why?

The floor is calling to me.