Into the Void

Here's a thought for you, prompted by a phone call from my brother about a sign in a shop window near where he lives which said:-

"What if the hokey-cokey is what it's all about?"

That's worrying.

Well now, here I am again. My cold/flu thingy has gone, no more gut problems, so now all I have to deal with is yet another ear infection. I've seen the doctor and have taken another pointless seven day course of antibiotics (why do doctors bother prescribing Amoxicilin when everyone knows it doesn't do anything) and am going to phone for another appointment tomorrow to see if he can give me anything that will actually help. During the meanwhilst, I am getting more and more fed up with it.

We've been having a few problems with Pete and his sleeping over the last week or so, this has meant that neither Nic or I have slept very well and have both been feeling a bit tired and rough, still these are the joys of parenthood I suppose

I've done another rehersal with the band (and in answer to Old Nicks question it's Jeff - Sandy's boyfriend) which went well-ish. We are having another on in a couple of weeks and I'm taking some songs along to see if they want to do them, could be interesting. I am enjoying doing the singing thing again, even if the last two times I have had a throat problem and have ended up the following day sounding a bit like Barry White when ever I speak.

I had a great time last week going to Camden with Mr Kelly to see Kings X at the Electric Ballroom. I've heard some of their stuff before and liked it but live they are great and since the gig I have downloaded a few of their albums to listen to and I really like their stuff.

Anyway, we have a fairly full weekend and week ahead so I'm off now.
See ya!

So, it appears I am now in a band. I did this audition and they were really happy with the way I sang and everything, which I am a bit suprised at because I didn't think I did that well. I suppose it helps that I know the drummer (he is a guitarist friend of mine) and that none of the rest of the band think they have good enough voices or want to sing, but hey I'm not knocking the fact that I seem to be a singer once again (if I ever was one before that is). So I sang some good classic rock songs, and a couple of Def Leppard numbers, and really enjoyed myself. They have some of their own songs that they've been working on as well which don't sound bad but need a bit of polishing up, so all in all it could be good fun. The band are called MLC, at the moment (it stands for Mid Life Crisis) but I don't know if that will be the final name or not. Anyway I'll try to keep anyone who's interested posted as to our progression.

On the home front, we are all gradually getting better but we still have sore throats, coughing and stuff going on within the house, although nowhere near as bad as it has been.

I'm going to finish with a little comment on something I heard earlier tonight on Newsnight. They were asking if this country still has a 'Rolls Royce' Civil Service. I think that firstly it really depends if you thought we ever had one to start with, but the thing that I thought straight away was 'Why do we need one when we've got a Ford Cortina Government and a Reliant Robin society?'

See ya!