Had no time to enjoy it though. Started work at 8am as I had a queue of things to put live, then only had a half hour lunch break because I'd forgotten about a 1pm meeting. Stopped at five straight into T2's parents evening (all goo). Walked for fifteen minutes before tea, ate tea, now sat down. Clare and T1 gone out to that quiz again, but I don't fancy it, and T2 has got too busy a week for this. We don't really want to watch anything on TV so I will go for a walk round the block now and then we'll see.
I do have my new security camera to unpack, but might leave that for later in the week.
OK, this is not true, but there are not many bands I have a plan in advance to go and see, but two of them are Weezer and Blossoms, and they're both on the Woodsies stage. I think this is what they called the John Peel stage before he got cancelled. They just announced the line up today, and I see Shed Seven are also playing that stage.
I want to see Kneecap too, not because they're all over the news, but because they're the IrishGoldie Lookin' Chain.
That power cut in Spain and Portugal is mad. My friend is out there and he agrees with me, it's definitely Russia.
Lovely day out there today, I did get a bit of a walk at lunch and after work. Plenty of people on the beach.
I didn't get on with those Grind coffee beans I bought from Tesco. I had some new ones delivered, so I vacuumed the rest of the beans out of the hopper in the top of my espresso machine and chucked them. How decadent. I realise I should add that approximately four pounds to my total coffee cost calculation.
As mysteriously as it appeared, that bike that I mentioned yesterday disappeared again just as mysteriously. I can't think where the owner of the bike could have gone, unless it was over the fence of the gardens of the house below us.
I did have washing and drying going nearly all day. I think I've done the same today too, and the electricity costs have just gone up I think. Let's have a little frozen energy graph here, so we can see just what it was when I look back on this in years to come.
This means there will be two energy graphs on the main blog page for a bit. Sorry about that.
Hmm was not going to go pay day crazy this weekend, but now on top of the new security camera, and a home automation extension lead thing for T1's room, I've gone and bought two pairs of gig tickets. A friend suggested going to see The Coal Porters, as my friends are big fans of The Long Ryders, and it's the same guy, and this reunion gig is his birthday, and they're expecting to be a special gig. So I bought tickets for that, and while I was looking I saw David Devant and his Spirit Wife are also playing the same venue. Not until December, but it's a Saturday right before Christmas and it will be great.
Weather has been lovely today, though I have only been out in it briefly. Went to Tesco, my regular Sunday bin food run, and shockingly there was almost no bin food. I did get some free bread, and some chopped onions but that was it. I picked up Clare and T1 who had taken a walk into Folkestone to go to the Pokemon shop, and then I left them with the car and walked back through Sandgate. Loads of people on the beach, it's like summer.
So with non bin food, I could either sensibly have beans on toast or something for my tea, make do with what's in the house, or go get a Chinese takeway. I think I know which one it's going to be.
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