saturday 1 – do parkrun here at westpark
sunday 2 – stepping in to help out with service
monday 3 – do parkrun and get PB at 27:16 – building up to 10km next weekend.
go for meal the four of us to Lazzat-e-Hind on oberländerstr. / 089 7677 6208
wednesday 5 – eve leaves to go back and i tell her she inspires me with her approach to life: to lean fully into it and embrace it
thursday 6 – going shoppping since katie is positive with covid, pickup the alverde magazin for october from dm with a buchtipp:
“kleine Schritte mit großer Wirkung” – Miriam Junge – recommends minor changes to basic routines like teeth brushing with left hand or going different ways to certain places and watching yourself, being less critical and more attentive and perceiving differences with old behaviours, also:
- writing out the new habit in concrete terms eg. am going running on xyz day(s) to reduce stress and feel better
- then make the goal visible eg. taking out sports stuff earlier to prepare
- habits are like muscles which need to be trained and strengthened not left unused
- to break strong automatism which can easily set in like checking emails and messages first thing
- expect setbacks and stays positive with yourself via praise.
also another book recommendation: “Depression Überwinden”, Sonja Unger, sabs very down at the moment and it transfers over to us all
had started swimmimg again but missed this evening using the excuse of katie’s covid – she gives the tip that it shouldn’t be negotiable and should just be, then by default i would simply go
monday 10 – blues lesson restarts
tuesday 11 – go to muffathalle with my quick review:
Jose Gonzalez – pastoral folk – he did an interesting triptych of Void – Horizons and Head On in exactly the same order as his latest album ‘Local Valley’ representing sense of loss – the vastness of possibilities still remaining and the energy available to achieve anything .. at least that’s how I understand what he was saying or meaning :-). Just a lone guitarist .. SAT down to perform on a classical guitar with singing with background visuals .. have to admit I had never heard of him before a few listens on spotify, am surprised his song “Swing” with ‘move your body, body’ refrain which he wrote watching for his two year old daughter isn’t massive, as it lodged in my sub-conscious as if it was generally known – have to check just how much airplay this has had since he packed the venue 2/3rd full with largely young trendy 20 and 30 somethings. He more or less played same as this:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/jose-gonzalez/2022/altes-hallenbad-feldkirch-austria-73b24a9d.html
support was jordan prince who was backed up by another guitarist also doing mainly folk – he was quite good
thursday 20 – setting off to uk via lufthansa to heathrow the both of us for uk trip
friday 21 – go for breakfast at pret’s in harrow, supposed to be meeting john but he’d forgotten to meet us
go into town and look round soho, find out the record shops above through china town including sister ray, have beer at the ship inn near here
travel down to get food on whitehall, the clarence inn, a youngs pub:
https://www.theclarencewhitehall.com/
beer was ok, food was poorish and katie ordered trout but got salmon but the staff were insistent it was trout
had plant burger which was not bad – one of these juicy american imports that I’d tried in the us
we went to see a concert at st martins titled “the lark ascending” by the london mozart players under simon blendis’ leadership and playing the pieces:
– Mozart – eine kleine Nachtmusik
– Barber – Adagio for strings
– Grieg – Holberg suite – starts quite somber but gets more joyous
– Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending – it’s this 150 birthday this year and simon mentioned how the soaring violins mirror the lark’s ascent into the sky so high and soft you can hardly hear the note
saturday 22 – go into town with john and walk around trafalgar square taking refuge in our home from home, the crypt cafe at st martins in the field – we go up to foyles then wander back to the embankment where john nearly gets knocked over by a cyclist on the fast cycleway – we check out the views to the south bank then briefly try the coal hole and even muscle in on a table but it is so busy we decide not to order as we’d be late so we head off for the restaurant opposite our theatre on st martins lane to have a decent meal at
la-roche-london.co.uk
they have quite a lot of vegetarian options and the prices are reasonable
we then go the performance of “The Doctor” with Juliet Stevenson
sunday 23 – we go with john to his church then have day working on his flat
https://www.camrosebc.org.uk/findus.htm
monday 24 – working on john’s flat and taking broken suitcase with junk upto the tip
we were thinking of going to a lecture on this our last night in london but decided to keep it simple and just stayed in harrow clearing up
tuesday 25 – take train to preston from euston then bus to clitheroe
wednesday 26 – half-day’s work and katie gets the plumber round to look at the boiler which is losing pressure quickly
thursday 27 – another half-days’s work – katie notices a leak in the front room the plumber comes round to find the leak in the front bedroom, which is in a pipe on the t-junction where a rubber seal has not been put over correctly
friday 28 – go to rose and crown to watch lowriderz a rock group doing covers performing
they do some trex, bowie, stones, tom petty and even cast’s “alright”
saturday 29 – do parkrun and then to trinity coffee morning
we watch a rugby match, clitheroe beating blackpool 62 v 0 but so much swearing at the bar and from the players on the pitch
sunday 30 – go to trinity for the service then for a walk over edisford bridge and along to waddington – rain clouds are forming but we press on instead of breaking for a pint to see how things develop – get thoroughly drenched on that long waddinton road
get back, get warm and laze at bright street until the evening when we go with pam and simon to the inn at whitewell for a slap-up meal – simon had been very busy with tours and they wanted to chill out a little so it was a perfect get together – had the landlord and black sheep with meal being black pudding starter (big enough as a small main) then the cheese and onion pie which was fortunately smallish)
had a great evening chatting and laughing
some good letters in the observer from today:
https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters/2022/oct/30/all
about US healthcare:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/30/money-is-the-lifeblood-of-healthcare-in-the-us
and the treatment of nurses and early years and taxing the rich etc
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/30/letters-nurses-need-a-little-nurturing
getting together a collection of interesting/disturbing articles and quotes from recent days:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/27/rishi-sunak-city-british-politics-investment-banker-prime-minister
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/
quotes:
David Dimbleby on Broadcasting House at 9.20am saying that Brexit and the lack of a plan to recover all that was lost is still the defining issue affecting Britain’s woes
Lord Mervyn King – “if we want European levels of welfare payments and public spending, you cannot finance that with American levels of tax rates. So we may need to confront the need to have significantly higher taxes on the average person …”
source:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/23/austerity-more-difficult-this-time-round-lord-king-bank-england
Mark Carney – “… in 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany’s, but now it is less than 70%.”
original source is FT referenced:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/21/truss-british-politics-brexit-public-trust
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