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Today is the last day of January abstinence...
Not sure why my weekly chart that I'm getting from the http://last.fm api is not the same as the chart showing on my last.fm page right now (Smiths, Pixies, Cure, Suede, Beatles, Joy Division, Beach Boys, Eagles, Pulp, Blur) - must be because that chart is only updated once a week and this chart is a rolling seven days or something. Anyway, not really that interesting. Not as interesting as the fact that tomorrow is Stewart Lee day, which means a trip up to London and a trip to the pub for the first time this month! A first time drinking in a pub this month anyway, not counting sat at the quiz with one orange juice all evening. Looking forward to it, but also it will be a shame to be back off the wagon again. I think I have lost my christmas belly, but Clare is not so sure I have. Should have weighed and measured myself at the beginning of the month.
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Went for my regular lunchtime walk today (4000 steps, 2600 aerobic) without a coat today as it looked lovely. It started to turn when I was nearly at the half way point so I turned it in to a bit of a run. Still got absolutely drenched on the way back, though I did see a rainbow over the Holiday Extras building.
I've only missed one day of walking so far this year, which was Tuesday when I was too busy.
Starting to think about our "summer" holiday as it's actually only three months away now. And, just found out I have six days holiday left to take, in the next two months. It's use it or lose it so I can schedule some nice bonus days...
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Got a surprise cheque in the post today, I had forgotten that the solicitor dealing with the flat sale held back some money. When the buyer's solicitor asked the management company (my old neighbours, we jointly owned the freehold) if there were any extra expenses likely to come up they said "oh yes we're definitely going to replace the drive soon"... I didn't think it likely, one person kept bringing it up and everyoen else kept shouting it down all the time I lived there. As a gesture of goodwill we said we'd contribute if it came up any time soon, and the solicitor held this money in trust. It's now been logn enough, and surprise surprise no sign of the new drive, so the solicitor returned the money to me. Kerching! This will be about cleared at the same time as this month's pay, maybe time for a massive spend up! Or more likely, just bank it. It's only £250, not like I'm going to buy a new telly with it, but still a nice bonus amount of cash.
I did some more work on my mp3 chart, I realised auto tagginthe genres of artists was no good, I need the genres of tracks - no sense in tagging Smashing Pumpkins with "session" just because I listen to some session version of some track a lot. Here's my artist chart of the week, plus my track chart... Hmm I think I left it playing Megadeth while I went out of the room:
Chart of the week
And top tracks of the week
- Hell's Motel
- A Secret Place
- I'll Get Even
- Sin
- Have Cool, Will Travel
- The Creed (Bonus Megadeth Demo)
- Fight Hate
- Mastermind
- Hello America
- Segue (Bonus Instrumental)
VENN!
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Supposedly Blue Monday today, or was it last Monday? Anyway today Holiday Extras gave us all a scratchcard, I'm guessing to cheer us up. And won a fiver! To the pie shop!
Blue Monday, back on the music themed subject lines...
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Thinking about going to this southseafest.com will probably buy tickets on pay day just in case... We went last year and it was great. Particularly the beer in The Wine Vaults.
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Oh dear Harry was ill at the weekend. Sick on the way to Canterbury in the car, and then when we got to Strada he had a juice and sicked that up too :-( As it was justs juice was not really all that messy, not sure anyone else really noticed, the waitress possibly thought he'd just knocked the juice over. He was fine after that and was OK for the rest of the evening. He didn't eat his dinner, but then did have some crackers and some jelly beans later so I think that means he's healthy again...
Apart from that the rest of the weekend was good. I did a bundle of coding for fun, which I have not done in a while. As well as the music pie that I made, I wrote a script that runs on Media Monkey every time I play a track that sends the genre details I have in there to last.fm. Still needs a bit of tweaking but soon my music pie will be accurate... This involved writing some vbscript which I don't think I've done before. Not sure how valuable or transferrable these skills are though.
We got our food to take away from Strada, and had it for tea, it was nice, we will go back again.
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No connection to our family as far as I can see but posting this in case you can help... email me, pauly@clarkeology.com and I will pass your info on...
Hi Pauly,
I see you have Bakers in your family tree, so here goes...
My grandmother's step-sister was Ada Florence "Florrie' Baker*. she married Walter Henry Clarke
in 1912. They lived for decades at 85 Shakespeare Walk, Stoke Newington and raised 7 children:
Harry CLARKE m. Joyce - 2 girls
Ethel CLARKE m. Bob
Ted CLARKE
Elsie CLARKE m. _____ - children Sandra & John
Ron CLARKE m. Ruby - 2 girls
Florrie CLARKE m. Tom - son Jim
Ruby CLARKE m. _____ - son Tony
The marriages & children are what I can put together from Elsie's travel diary in 1962 when she
and her sister Edie went to visit Florrie in London.
Florrie's sister Ethel and step-siblings Walter May, Leslie, Edith, Leonard, Elsie and Ivy Baker
emigrated to Canada around 1912 with their parents Emma and Henry Baker. My father (Elsie's son)
remembered playing cribbage with Florrie's youngest son Ted while on leave during WW2 and thought
he might have moved to Brighton but eventually lost touch with the family altogether.
Walter Henry Clarke was an egg merchant living at 21 Churchill Rd. Hackney at the time of his marriage to Florrie.
His father was Thomas CLARKE (deceased), fishmonger.
If you have any information about this branch of the Clarkes I'd appreciate hearing from you.
Regards,
Jan, in Ontario Canada
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Paul Clarke's blog - I live and work near Folkestone. Married to Clare and father to Harry, I am a web dev, and I like javascript, PHP, Folkestone Gerald, pubs, restaurants, history, genealogy, TV, music, popbitch, squirrels, pirates ☠, time travel, stained glass...
