saturday 1 – got up early to feed lizzie, then laze around listening to the radio and reading, ramblings on radio 4 had a walk in plymouth with a group called ‘Start’ – Students And Refugees Together as they took a boat to a nature reserve
went for croissants then a few jobs including loading the Scribus SW for sabs
then out on the bike to marshal at the volkslauf at forstenrieder sc, manning an outpost in the woods, got there with about 20mins to go, chatting with karim about naturell, an outdoor training sport developed 100 years ago in france
was interesting to watch the different styles as the runners filed by, one giving up and wanting to know how to get back quickest to the start, 2 were blind runners with accompanying partners and the very last group of 3 who seemed to be having to best time, jogging and chatting
got back for tea, katie had done her version of burgers
sunday 2 – confirmation sunday, katie playing and full set of 7 songs
waiting for the train saw a quotation:
“einen Wahn zu verlieren macht man weiser als eine Wahrheit zu finden”
Ludwig Börne
losing an illusion makes one wiser than finding a truth
got back at about 2.30pm then spent an hour trying to get avira registered unsuccessfully
finished off some work before tea, then some more work after tea
sabs came down to try out Scribus and check all was working ok
monday 3, hamburg – up 6am to have breakfast with girls then set off to hamburg
tuesday 4, hamburg – didn’t sleep so well and late into work getting started
katie sending details of test:
http://www.bamf.de/DE/Willkommen/Einbuergerung/OnlineTestcenter/online-testcenter-node.html
also reading about danish parenting:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/06/danish-way-of-parenting-review
saw an advert about what i thought were these new hifi cafes, but turned out to be a hifi shop chain, still:
hifiklubben.de
met up with ute and did a whirlwind cycle tour of hamburg, after having a meal in “le bon” near the hotel
had beer in the hotel bar before going to bed at a reasonable time
wednesday 5, hamburg – went to motel one down the road for decent breakfast at 10€ compared to the hotel’s 15€
reading in die welt about pauline skott, a new indie talent and the new music blog/recommendation sites:
hypemachine, soundcloud and stereogum
went for meal with tom near the rathaus:
https://www.ocafe-central.de/
thursday 6, hamburg – early off to airport and through passport control quicker than last time
arrived at rose and crown about 8:45pm, but too late to get anything across the road at the swan and royal, went down to emporium for meal and internet access
friday 7, clitheroe/skipton – working at house to get letter sent to bradford city council for mum and also calling savage crangle, then preparing what information to drop off there in skipton
went to pick up john from station but he was an hour late, not sure what happened
met up with pete and ros on their way to pick up the car from servicing
later looked around uplands, probably for last time, was interesting to see the garden work his dad had done, just how much maintenance still needs doing and the rooms and space
4 of us went for meal at craven heifer, veg curry and treacle sponge and custard, john finishing with christmas pudding, which looked a great choice!
left around 9pm and caught a few songs from the band razorlight uk at the rose and crown, was noticeable how although they didn’t have a lead guitarist, being 2 guitars, bass and drums, how one guitar did pick up on the basic sound of a song through one or two riffs, to keep some melody or resemblance, they were quite good with plenty of backing vocal to thicken things out; made me think we need to put a signature on each song, for a band’s sound
saturday 8, clitheroe/skipton – doing dome work at house then went over to see mum just after she was finishing lunch, then onto auntie jean’s to have tea, although maybe it was too much to put on her, lovely meal, curry, pizza, cheesee and onion pie, which she had made vanilla cakes, and also cake which she had made, then watching the grand national together
drove onto settle for 7pm for the beverley craven concert
then drive back to herriots to check-in and sleep
sunday 9, clitheroe/skipton – went to baptist church with john for service at 9.15am then meal at the usual place in the cattle market car park
finishing off the surround around the bathroom door, then reasonably early to bed
monday 10, hamburg – early start again, 4am and 7.20 flight to hamburg
wanted to work late, but simply too tired, so go to hotel, get falafel sandwich to eat in the room and go to bed
tuesday 11, hamburg – better day getting more done and staying late to complete a few more tests
Brian Marlier from chicago office:
“Find goodness in your heart and contentment in your life. Follow your dreams, there is no hurry to life. Have no fear. Accept risk, failure and success. Are you living or are you existing? Live!!!”
wednesday 12, hamburg – some issues surfacing so had to keep clear and work on test cases to move along and not get distracted, accomplished what i needed to and got off around 4pm and home for just before 8pm, in time to get beers from edeka for watching the match, although only got to watch second half since girls and hannah were watching a film
thursday 13 – working home/office, not ideal but got a few things done which i needed to then katie home around 6pm, sabs went to kebapo for evening meal, shared falafel durum with katie
saturday 15 – relaxing/lazing around and listening to classic fm, katie getting used to new raumfeld app on her phone and both being impressed by the violin in:
Max Bruch Opus 57, Adagio Appassionato played by Chloe Hanslip
sunday 16 – reading about purine in an article about spargel/asparagus – only a problem for people who have a problem in metabolising it, which can lead to gout:
service went ok and we were playing as the band in neue besetzung with joseph and the 3 girls – a few issues with coming in on verses, but went off ok i suppose, even knockin’ on heaven’s door
watched the film “earl, rachel and I” about a girl suffering from leukaemia, after katie and i had spent a good few minutes working out which to watch, coming down to pretty woman or this
monday 17 – reading further and studying the book by joachim corill:
kompositions- und Improvisationsfibel für junge und junggebliebene gitarristen/-innen
https://www.gebrauchtnotenboerse.de
thinking about trip to see ms craven again
went for swim before tea, plenty of young children due to holidays and poor weather, still managed to get 40 lengths done in training lane
felt some hail on the way back on the bike
tuesday 18 – snow had fallen!
girls going to kundl, went for spotify family premium subscription which caused a bit of a last minute panic with them trying to get access before going
wednesday 19 – snowing again today
thursday 20 – angela tilby on thought for the day talking about the book by David Goodhart
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics Hardcover – 17 Mar 2017
by David Goodhart (Author)
and looking to get, after reading some of “Digitale Transformation” by Tim Cole:
Digitale Aufklärung: Warum uns das Internet klüger macht Gebundene Ausgabe – 30. September 2013
von Ossi Urchs (Autor), Tim Cole (Autor)
monday 24 – day at GBR
go to lisa hannigan concert with sabs in the evening, we take the bus and chat about the internet and how it works, she seems fascinated
lishannigan.ie
wonderful, ethereal, delicate quality to her singing
definite picking action, wouldn’t say folk, uses ring and little finger for support, whilst picking with thumb, index and middle – stayed mainly in C with F, G, Em7, Dm, Am to cadence through, and adjusting via capo to suit the key
support band was.
saintsister.bandcamp.com
tuesday 25 – saw eve off, she was walking alone since bike has a puncture, so i guess hannah is cycling alone
“Relax, simplify, and be nice.”
Jacky Dreksler
“work is what you do, not where you do it”
Jaime Garcia
we listened to suzanne vega’s solitude standing album whilst doing some work upstairs on a document next to eve on the sofa after tea and she rested her head on my shoulder since she was so tired from studying, was nice
she had got a 1 for her pressups, after 3 months ago not being to do a single one
she showed katie and me some bieber tracks
wednesday 26 – gave eve the bieber book i was saving for her birthday
working at GBR with tom, sleeting snow still
reading through the guardian and comments from people over here, some thoughts were interesting:
folk are focusing on rhetoric and not on policy, a dangerous precedent, form over substance
why wasn’t the election called before triggering article 50, not after
went to guitar course in the evening, tough but stuck at it
thursday 27 – working at home and hopes of going to swimming dashed by laziness and bad weather
friday 28 – checking some guitar books, was actually searching for:
The Authentic Guitar Style of Suzanne Vega with Tablature by Mark Phillips (1989-08-02)1683
von Mark Phillips
which is out of print, but came across
Rhythmic Lead Guitar – Solo Phrasing, Groove And Timing For All Styles (Buch & CD) (Musician’s Institute Private Lessons) (Englisch) Taschenbuch – 29. Mai 2013
von Barrett Tagliarino (Autor)
saturday 29 – after going to gasteig to register for einbürgerungstest, went on to collect stuff from bauhaus, tyre and inner tube and staples, headphones and speaker
sunday 30 – took older ones into park since it was a nice day, let them play some games, took rackets and a football; ended up playing with a few of the younger asylum seeker children who were curious and wanted to join in. afterwards ruth took the 7 of us for an ice cream on lindwurmstr, was very nice in fact
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