tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53071850020863855372024-03-13T10:45:38.449+00:00Fit For NothingA diary of life, alcohol, collies and attempting to keep fit.FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.comBlogger3033125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-55137553823593586912023-12-03T00:00:00.000+00:002024-02-27T16:49:16.019+00:00Paranoid<p>I always try to be sociable on my morning walks but three chaps,
who I see every day and always appear reluctant to return my greeting, now seem
to have changed their route. I assume this is purely so that they don’t have to
say good morning to me anymore or perhaps I'm being paranoid. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Friday has a rare Friday night and that is actually on a Friday with
a home cooked curry and a Leffe. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday we go to Market Bosworth for parkrun where we
both run. Sadly there is nowhere for coffee afterwards as their coffee van is only
opening as we leave. I drop L in Derby and then take my Dad to Asda. After that
excitement my Dad and I recover with lunch in the New Inn. In the evening L goes to the gym
and then we go with the Lad to the Plough. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It snows overnight and so like three overexcited kids L, the
Lad and I go out for a play in it or rather a run because that’s the sort of
thing we do. Then we head to the Wollaton for a sausage cob and coffee for breakfast. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As I sit in the Wollaton I can see that there is a major trauma going on on social media about whether, given
the Baltic conditions, our Dog Club AGM should go ahead. Given it doesn’t start
until 3pm the drama is probably overblown as come 3pm the snow is almost a
distant memory and the meeting goes ahead. I am re-elected as secretary for my
sins. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> (Sunday 3rd December)</p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-30266925145160303512023-11-30T00:01:00.030+00:002024-02-27T16:49:13.725+00:00It's a HIIT<p>Monday is my cycling and for a variety afterwards my
Dad and I go in the Dolphin. In my pub going experiences of the last 35 years,
despite being Grade II and dating from the late 16<sup>th</sup> century, the pub
has never been much good. I pop in once very few years and always find it a bit scruffy
with dubious beer but then that’s just my opinion. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tuesday is dog training with my ever-so-slightly improved
dog while L starts the day, as ever, with her PT but this time she sends me an
Instagram link of her doing her weights. A link I can’t find as I don’t really
do Instagram... and for some reason these things disappear after 24 hours?<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The morning walks have been frosty and pleasant all week, e.g. we didn’t
upset anyone and no one upset us, until Wednesday when we got deer
blocked and had to return back the way we came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday is my first HIIT session with my physio. This is basically cardio with dumbbells but no music. There are limits. It consists of 10
exercises for 30 seconds each with 30 seconds rest in between. Repeated three
times. It is quite taxing and I even take a drink in with me.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday, as I’m snowed under with work, L takes my Dad
to his physio session aka his social event. He does love a trip out.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Thursday 30<sup>th</sup> November) <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-55794682661240858592023-11-30T00:00:00.000+00:002024-02-27T16:49:12.147+00:00Tom Robinson<p>Tonight I am at Nottingham’s Old Cold Store to see Tom
Robinson. The Old Cold Store is part of the Vat and Fiddle pub owned by Castle
Rock Brewery so the audience is at least assured a good pint. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Cold Store is also really cold. This is partly because
it’s late November but also because it appears that the venue is just the pub’s
backyard that they’ve (sort of) put a roof on. This is also (sort of) a seated
gig and they’ve put chairs out for us old folks. Although you
can stand at the back if you’re hardcore and/or you want to jump around to keep
warm. Note to self: bring gloves next time. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWT3aon845uJMvj8IDrWXHHKycN4SHGOmcTS8CJt9Ot6_JLbH9W8BB0lpNspb6PDOrPoPV6AivKvW3VmVicFoL6OF4jTMWZVHUmPJsHFmlDvtBKxHMtK1GKxiZcBhaKctu6bpMPedorJwwc69Ko2f1-WY2uc_mvCyB3ZVnlhRRuK7vA4N74M6M8IdyXsln/s2048/IMG_1761.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWT3aon845uJMvj8IDrWXHHKycN4SHGOmcTS8CJt9Ot6_JLbH9W8BB0lpNspb6PDOrPoPV6AivKvW3VmVicFoL6OF4jTMWZVHUmPJsHFmlDvtBKxHMtK1GKxiZcBhaKctu6bpMPedorJwwc69Ko2f1-WY2uc_mvCyB3ZVnlhRRuK7vA4N74M6M8IdyXsln/s320/IMG_1761.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Support comes from a chap called Rob Green who is originally
from Nottingham. As always with a Tom Robinson show the support artist has been
featured on his 6 Music Show and is introduced by the man himself. Green plays
a short 20 minute set which only consists of three songs, a poem and a medley
of covers but then he is hauled back on stage for one more called ‘I’ll Be Around’ which
is the best one he does. He’s decent and hits some amazingly high notes with
his voice. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After giving us a chance to get another beer, Robinson comes on stage,
rolls his sleeves up, and launches into the first of two 45 minutes sets with a
track I didn’t know ‘You Tattooed Me’ from his 1986 album ‘Still Loving You’.
One of several songs that he plays tonight that I’ve not heard before. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2RTL4iieiclAYdChuRRAjlkTccaqlzG31M1eJWZURC3cdwx3yfG3UZGOf1OtbB3Vg7CE9ZaO4k01hccD82i7rAHz1kQCaeb36F2OzrbnK1KuaDNWKaUE3U9LWDzvd2JdUkcdRAIjQcFW-I-izseJrwjtgmyX5t7M7ws4jlexNazFzrgDIcQGZGxtfQO2e/s2048/IMG_1773.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2RTL4iieiclAYdChuRRAjlkTccaqlzG31M1eJWZURC3cdwx3yfG3UZGOf1OtbB3Vg7CE9ZaO4k01hccD82i7rAHz1kQCaeb36F2OzrbnK1KuaDNWKaUE3U9LWDzvd2JdUkcdRAIjQcFW-I-izseJrwjtgmyX5t7M7ws4jlexNazFzrgDIcQGZGxtfQO2e/s320/IMG_1773.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This evening it is just him, without his band, and 'up close
and personal' is the title of the show and that is what we get. Just Tom, his
guitar and his keyboard. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The two sets will have an intermission in between. This is
presumably another innovation along with the chairs for us oldies and for
himself, a sprightly 73 year old. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During his reworking of ‘Fifty’ as in ‘<i>what if we live to be
fifty</i>’ that he has now called ‘Eighty’ out of necessity as he’s now obviously
way past being fifty, he tells of the three things getting older has changed in his
performances. Firstly that he has to write down any new song lyrics or else he’ll
forget then. Secondly, that having written them down he can’t actually read them. The third thing slips his memory. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">His memory is strong though concerning his former TRB band colleague
Danny Kustow to which he dedicates ‘Too Good To Be True’. A tale about Kustow is just one of his many recollections about his songs he tells tonight.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdEA-H31poYVZ8p5Zh9Usv4w5QBz9nqWPqAYQb1eNCqFL3IENhFHHthJpyOl1AP94sAocI4vRs5SBScS6SWJAXXMQ4U4CEkGqFLRuw74sA4OquE5eCcKSaaNvWjK59Tr-jHU-GatKnJstkHgRtcRX3m1Wb4RZM2KyZo6s55e8tHmDVDAdnTTRFVDLMSz7Z/s2048/IMG_1767.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdEA-H31poYVZ8p5Zh9Usv4w5QBz9nqWPqAYQb1eNCqFL3IENhFHHthJpyOl1AP94sAocI4vRs5SBScS6SWJAXXMQ4U4CEkGqFLRuw74sA4OquE5eCcKSaaNvWjK59Tr-jHU-GatKnJstkHgRtcRX3m1Wb4RZM2KyZo6s55e8tHmDVDAdnTTRFVDLMSz7Z/s320/IMG_1767.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Robinson is also still a vocal critic of everything wrong in the
world and also of abuses of power hence one of his newer songs ‘The Mighty
Sword of Justice’. Then after ‘Atmospherics: Listen to the Radio’ he takes a
break, so that we can all have a lie down. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part two includes such classics as ‘Grey Cortina’, ‘War Baby’,
‘Glad to Be Gay’ and ‘Up Against the Wall’ before he closes with a ‘short
medley of my greatest hit’ i.e. ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He treats us to one more which is the rather poignant ‘Only
the Now’. It’s a personal favourite of his about the reality that the past is the
past but that the future is always unknown and we all have to live in the moment.
Sound advice and an excellent night.</p>FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-79343038394697833912023-11-26T00:00:00.022+00:002024-02-27T16:49:10.179+00:00Ford Capri<p>L has a busy day on Friday. A swim and gym at Lenton and
then the frequently stressful trip to Mickleover. I have a Committee meeting in the evening. Not
really the thing you want on a Friday but finding a mutually convenient date for these
meetings is always hard. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday we take Parkrun on the road to Belton House near Grantham and even I
join in. Then we are both in Derby, L’s in the Derbion and I’m at the match. My
Dad has spent the morning driving an old Ford Capri up at Ambergate which was last
year’s Christmas present from my brother. Now he wants his own Capri, just to
sit on his drive so that he can look at it. That’s a bit indulgent but before thinking about that he
needs a new freezer as his old one has just packed up. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we are out for a curry with friends. L and I
have a drink first in the Good Fellow George then we meet them down at the Laguna
Tandoori. This was once our favourite Indian Restaurant and I’ve been going
here, off and on, since 1992. Unfortunately we haven’t been that impressed the
last few times we’ve been and tonight it is again very average. There is also a
long wait for our main course. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Sunday the Lad and I have one of our vanishingly rare dog
shows. That’s his fault not mine or at least that’s the story I’m sticking to.
This means L again has to do the Sunday run without us. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The show goes a lot better than I expected. ‘We' are still crap obviously but not as crap as I expected ‘we’ would be. His
weaving was good although never at the first attempt and his Steeplechase course was outstanding apart from the extra tunnel he slotted
in when he though no one was looking. The problem was that the judge certainly was looking.
Overall though we’re still speaking and I’m slightly enthused. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Later I do the gym with L and then raise a glass to Terry
Venables who sadly died this weekend. </p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 26th November) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-32629076444208809992023-11-23T00:01:00.001+00:002024-02-27T16:49:08.180+00:00Decorations<p>We are now officially in the Christmas build up because the Christmas
lights are up at the house across the road from us. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Monday night cycling is a bit mad with a full complement of
28 riders on the track and at one point they had to stop the session to tell
everyone to calm down. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I get home, as ever, the Lad refuses to greet me and stays upstairs because I am arm in arm with my trusty steed. Which is otherwise known as the evil bike that hisses at him when
I blow up its tyres. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L is at PT on Tuesday while I also brave the gym. Which was hard work as the day after cycling always is. It's not really the best day to go. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our next door neighbours are having a porch or something similar built. Either that or they are having very permanent Christmas decorations to upstage those across the road. If
it’s a porch it’s going to be a very small one person one. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Wednesday the Lad gets a double training session
at tunnel night. He sleeps well after that. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday L and I do a post-work gym session together at 5pm. It
is busy but not horrific as we thought it might be. Then we head off to a gig
together as I take L to see one of her faves of back in the day - Big Country.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Thursday 23<sup>rd</sup> November) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-49226169373930394762023-11-23T00:00:00.001+00:002024-02-27T16:49:04.302+00:00Big Country<p>Tonight’s
gig with Big Country at the Flowerpot in Derby is
a bit of an odd one. It is part of the band’s 40th anniversary tour for
their 1983 début album ‘The Crossing’. Yet the Flowerpot is not a big
venue and nor does
it have a large stage so tonight’s gig is a semi-acoustic, semi-electric
affair and
there are chairs set up on stage for the band to rest their ageing
limbs. That's a good
idea. Us in the crowd could do with them too. </p><p style="text-align: left;">There is also no support band so a pint from the Flowerpot's real ale bar does the warming up instead. </p><p style="text-align: left;">They
open with an outlier ‘King Of Emotion’ which isn’t from
the record we are here to celebrate and nor is the second track which
their big hit ‘Look
Away’ but then we get down to it with the next five all coming from
their acclaimed first album. Although I'm not been a Big Country
aficionado and a lot of the album's lesser er known tracks were fairly
unfamiliar
to me. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxEja-MrZcZma2aEmcjfh6Q9Az04ukyjWB0XXcSXemenoyD7J-Gpc6fqeS9y3LgPxCIsVbjPuLtSm7FdwD4HqcrDkUhN1tZNf4_0S4ai_RDOfWRM9Fnne04jPoByW9r5mDUEOHHeABQ8Gy9kFOBRpl86OBVOdgvJs7p-xVhChmpsVNp4B5GBOR_OA5q1F/s2048/IMG_1754.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxEja-MrZcZma2aEmcjfh6Q9Az04ukyjWB0XXcSXemenoyD7J-Gpc6fqeS9y3LgPxCIsVbjPuLtSm7FdwD4HqcrDkUhN1tZNf4_0S4ai_RDOfWRM9Fnne04jPoByW9r5mDUEOHHeABQ8Gy9kFOBRpl86OBVOdgvJs7p-xVhChmpsVNp4B5GBOR_OA5q1F/s320/IMG_1754.JPEG" width="320" /></a>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The band, who do indeed stay seated throughout the night,
now consist of founding members Bruce Watson on guitar and Mark Brzezicki on drums.
Simon Hough is the vocalist while Bruce's son Jamie also plays guitar. After a
six year hiatus following original lead singer Stuart Adamson’s death in 2001 the
band have been back on the road ever since. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zJrHPrew8gpRbqHHGvcF2XgSic6mO8TaOvvVKCI8dliwBB4McTfQ8JaBl21OuDy98Xj4VqVSQ0Y2mpJFZYGfK7zO7veC-bQ46ae6WjapeWgh3rLLJgDmciqHopBlB9IzfvJsHvuXGj8UNjj6clriIl0vt-AUdOU8RUYPjaugHjmGJspbcbhxgiX7EmfA/s2048/IMG_1752.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zJrHPrew8gpRbqHHGvcF2XgSic6mO8TaOvvVKCI8dliwBB4McTfQ8JaBl21OuDy98Xj4VqVSQ0Y2mpJFZYGfK7zO7veC-bQ46ae6WjapeWgh3rLLJgDmciqHopBlB9IzfvJsHvuXGj8UNjj6clriIl0vt-AUdOU8RUYPjaugHjmGJspbcbhxgiX7EmfA/s320/IMG_1752.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> A short thirteen song set was rounded off with three songs I was
very much familiar with, the big hits that were ‘Chance’, ‘Wonderland’ and ‘Fields
Of Fire’. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> They do vacate their seats to briefly leave the stage
before returning to close with a rousing ‘In A Big Country’. Now I’m off for a
sit down.</p></div>FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-52578554612390070952023-11-19T00:01:00.046+00:002024-02-16T16:58:47.997+00:00Avoiding All HuskiesApparently we have both a new Home Secretary and a Foreign
Secretary. The latter is someone called Cameron which is seriously weird.
Talk about jobs for the boys. Didn’t he resign in disgrace last time he was in
Government?
<p class="MsoNormal">I skip my Monday cycling as I’m still coughing. Staying at
home with a steak and a glass of red wine is more fun. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tuesday as L rushes home to get half an hour of raking
leaves in which with exercise the Lad, for which she may need floodlights, I
head off to Derby’s FA Cup replay at home to Crewe under floodlights. Which they rather
embarrassingly lose. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lad has a busy Wednesday morning as he got to snarl at
his favourite Husky as well as at the Dalmatian and one of the Labradors.
Although I would say they all started it and we did have a nice social with some
doodles. <br /></p>My Physio offers to let me skip his evil cardio
finale given my poor health but I went for it and then descended into a ten
minute coughing fit. <br />
<p class="MsoNormal">In order to keep extracting money from me he asked, now that my
knees aren’t so bad, if I fancied trying a HIIT workout. So I said I’d give
that a go and then I came home to Google what a HIIT workout was. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L’s work today takes her back to her old office on Regent
Street. Which must have been a bit strange. I’m out in Derby later for a (not
so) wild night out with my friend. We don’t venture far having food in the Brunswick
and then a last drink in the Alexandra. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The husky has the good sense
to hide behind a tree on Thursday which makes the walk a little less confrontational. L swims in
the evening while I manage to get in a lunchtime gym. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously I fail to get Glastonbury coach tickets when they
go on sale that evening and then I completely forget to try for the main release on
Sunday. So we’re not going Glastonbury again. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am at the Hygienist on Friday morning and then in the
evening we’re at Derby Book Festival to see an impressive Wes Streeting telling
us about his life so far. He’s only 40. There is, as always, a very old
demographic in Quad and presumably those attending to see the Shadow Health Secretary are the ones that aren’t going to vote
Tory. We
grab a drink afterwards in the Exeter. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday we skip parkrun because L has a season ticket
for the Book Festival and will be heading back there for the day. We walk the
Lad together instead. Avoiding all huskies. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I join L later for a session with the brilliant Steve
Richards, that's after I’ve squeezed in a game of squash with Daughter. I get the bus
over so that we can have a proper debrief over a few drinks in the Flowerpot. I
meet L in somewhere called Boo Burger. Richards' latest book is about the turning points in political history. He is very informative about Suez and hilarious a point in history known as 'Truss'.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t join L at at the Book Festival on Sunday as I
am meeting an old friend from University who is up to see the Sisters of Mercy
tonight at Rock City. We meet in the Lincolnshire Poacher at 5pm which was one
of our old hang outs and then move to Langtrys. These are two of the few places
that we used to frequent that are still in existence. We return to Langtrys for
a night cap after the gig. </p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 19th November) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-62017107195603804152023-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:002024-02-16T16:58:45.489+00:00Sisters Of Mercy<p>I have seen the VirginMarys a few times live always as a
support band but not for some time, so it's no surprise to learn that it's now ten
years since the guitarist-drummer twosome of Ally Dickaty and Danny Dolan's
first album and they were together a while before that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They are just as I remember. Lively and... loud.
Particularly those drums but they are also hugely impressive as they literally
blow us away with their grunge/punk tunes.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then for those with any eardrums left. It's time for the
Sisters.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It's also been a while since I saw the Sisters of Mercy. Far
too long I think. I stopped going because they seemed to have become almost a
parody of themselves. The last time I saw them at Rock City the sound was really
poor, the best days of Andrew Eldritch's vocal cords seemed well behind him while
the stage was so utterly drenched in dry ice that you were left wondering if
there was actually a band there on stage at all and you had fallen for some elaborate
scam.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So yes, I've been away too long, because tonight was nothing
like that. Tonight the Sisters rocked up at Rock City and rocked out, putting
on an amazing stage show and the assembled masses loved it. The sound was top
notch, Eldritch's voice problems seemed in remission while not only was the dry
ice in moderation but they even have a decent light show going on.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqfe8meRPOkY7tUs_fj_SmIgXZ3P70deQ0CeOX5eMMtItyG898Ks7-y1zvksWq78N_w1HzeVSaMMPQG8TCCHONk0NwUDPr2nuy4TRnEQWQM9hFdLz6D6O3CVkqX-qaP79zataUEZHau5XevPC8dlHTUG3IpAn1kMhgpaO_b755vw7udZopHL1wO9Ey-ST/s2048/IMG_1738.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioqfe8meRPOkY7tUs_fj_SmIgXZ3P70deQ0CeOX5eMMtItyG898Ks7-y1zvksWq78N_w1HzeVSaMMPQG8TCCHONk0NwUDPr2nuy4TRnEQWQM9hFdLz6D6O3CVkqX-qaP79zataUEZHau5XevPC8dlHTUG3IpAn1kMhgpaO_b755vw7udZopHL1wO9Ey-ST/s320/IMG_1738.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Whereas last time I though the band just seemed to be going
through the motions this time that certainly isn't the case. The band’s two
guitarists long-time collaborator Ben Christo and newbie 'Sister' Kai, a
replacement for Dylan Smith who was dispensed with earlier in the tour, are
fully engaged tonight and throwing old skool rock poses all over the stage. While
Chris Catalyst man’s Doktor Avalanche the drum machine, whatever that
involves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6u7ljK1icVcD6mIwOD_ds9KJ_6BgZPu5sfEnp93JsySGU9L5HLTv9wwoje3d_1TYqWTWhn1Q77Pp0wjlRkUQJChyphenhyphenQ1X7m3k_OrBt5xNKUKoEM_GGvY-H8nvHBoDdhQJK-dD5JjDFOltDKqvHvLB0RMvvMlKoxG-NqhUvNqiHHvR5fVLkNtrDiNRQBF4uy/s2048/IMG_1737.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6u7ljK1icVcD6mIwOD_ds9KJ_6BgZPu5sfEnp93JsySGU9L5HLTv9wwoje3d_1TYqWTWhn1Q77Pp0wjlRkUQJChyphenhyphenQ1X7m3k_OrBt5xNKUKoEM_GGvY-H8nvHBoDdhQJK-dD5JjDFOltDKqvHvLB0RMvvMlKoxG-NqhUvNqiHHvR5fVLkNtrDiNRQBF4uy/s320/IMG_1737.JPEG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /> </span>Then there's Eldritch, and yes his voice isn’t what it was but
he more than gets by tonight for a man of 64.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You could be a cynic and say the show involves a lot of karaoke.
Doktor Avalanche the drum machine has, of course, always been a thing for them
but now it's all the keyboard parts and also all the bass lines as the band
have long since dispensed with a bass guitarist. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The band power through a set routed in 1990's 'Vision Thing'
album with 'Doctor Jeep', 'Ribbons', a truly thumping 'More' and 'I Was Wrong'
featuring along with the classic that is 'Alice', 'Marian' and the Sisterhood's
'Giving Ground' which are interspersed with numerous unreleased songs before they
end the main set with another classic in the 'Temple of Love'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx7Yk8Dv2NZE-HROSYh5bGADR8bmNjmSLJxZAnh-tCe-nbrsBQmrJ7xq12n6-8P7C7PjyqPmKX_koDglrc3dAZn-3VecFvVW_B_Eo18W_q9e1JdPTP-EUERhC_6mZ734jRn8z7hwQ-re5veWSAUJPTjftU1nmO5iWor-jNkuUOxwtWjPPh9Qa5TqnA2EBR/s2048/IMG_1741.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx7Yk8Dv2NZE-HROSYh5bGADR8bmNjmSLJxZAnh-tCe-nbrsBQmrJ7xq12n6-8P7C7PjyqPmKX_koDglrc3dAZn-3VecFvVW_B_Eo18W_q9e1JdPTP-EUERhC_6mZ734jRn8z7hwQ-re5veWSAUJPTjftU1nmO5iWor-jNkuUOxwtWjPPh9Qa5TqnA2EBR/s320/IMG_1741.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 'new' songs are controversial and always have been because
the Sisters have released zilch since 'Vision Thing' apart from the 1993 'Under
The Gun' single, which doesn't feature tonight, but they still keep performing
new tracks. Tonight’s set consists of no less than eight of these but it has to
be said that most of them are pretty good. This wasn't the case when they first
started adding new tracks a couple of decades ago but then they've obviously had
plenty of time to refine them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eldritch long ago said he saw no reason to release a new record
and seems to abhor the prospect of entering a recording studio, employing the
necessary people and then paying them both for time and royalties. Why bother,
he says, when people can just come to a gig. Problem with that is, despite
their prodigious touring record, most fans are probably only attending one gig
a year and then when Eldritch eventually stops touring all you will be left
with are the dodgy YouTube clips recorded on someone's phone. </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7h3SmqoIkvDXP79fnuzG6OcLBFsAdy-IMx6SeA55hcjg61VUwv4Ks7rmcK2ao0VgmzHjwe_yQn2PPBh3OkR5ljpumqHSh1h3d_FvWUAIgyoBFXX1jozBK_TYvE6CEdYUm2SLCETHhlUo6TdjDylraGn5JM32e401N63Z1NctvB5FqXTcMzID0drhHM0OC/s2048/IMG_1746.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7h3SmqoIkvDXP79fnuzG6OcLBFsAdy-IMx6SeA55hcjg61VUwv4Ks7rmcK2ao0VgmzHjwe_yQn2PPBh3OkR5ljpumqHSh1h3d_FvWUAIgyoBFXX1jozBK_TYvE6CEdYUm2SLCETHhlUo6TdjDylraGn5JM32e401N63Z1NctvB5FqXTcMzID0drhHM0OC/s320/IMG_1746.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He really needs to sort this and to be fair to him he didn't
entirely rule out a new release in recent interviews. As I'm sure he knows, the
music industry has evolved and we now live in an era of self-published music
and the likes of Bandcamp. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course he may be worried that a new record wouldn't be
able to live up to the older ones and it probably won't but that's missing the
point. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While the set is fantastic, the encore is something else.
They have a saxophone up on stage for the instrumental 'Sandstorm' but then
it's the fantastic threesome from 'Floodland' of ‘Dominion / Mother Russia', a
truly bombastic 'Lucretia My Reflection' and then to close the Hey now! Hey now
now! singalong of 'This Corrosion'. Top night.</p>
On the basis of the reaction tonight, and the band's
enduring popularity as demonstrated by practically every venue on this tour hanging
up the 'sold out' signs, a new record would sell rather well. I think he is
missing an open goal here. Get it sorted. FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-10376508635573350162023-11-12T00:00:00.041+00:002024-02-16T16:58:43.309+00:00SurroundedI’m still ill on Monday so the last thing I needed was an unplanned extension to our morning walk when I found the exit gate from the park at
Sutton Passeys still locked. Meaning I had to go all the way back where I
came in on Harrow Road.
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m feeling too weak for cycling so I skip that and even take L’s advice to go
to bed early, now there's a first, while she goes for a swim. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m a bit better by Tuesday but L still runs off to work to escape my
germs where she finds her boss is full of cold, as was her PT when she saw
him earlier. She’s surrounded by ill people. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Obviously she is feeling left out because that evening, halfway through our regular session listening
to Cormoran Strike, L gets up to go to the bathroom and vomits. Then she comes
back and we carry on. She blames a satsuma. I’m surrounded by ill people and I
run off to dog training to escape. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I may have managed dog training but I feel a session with my
evil physio will be a step too far, so I move him back
a week. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday’s match in the EFL Trophy, now officially known as
the Bristol Street Motors Trophy, results in a 4-1 victory over a Wolverhampton
Wanderers Under 21 side in front of just 1,972 people. No one really cares about
this much until we get to Wembley. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday Daughter tests positive for Covid and has to WFH. I’m surrounded by
ill people. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday the car is in for its MOT which means a trip over
to Derby as even that is easier than getting to VW in Nottingham. I take it and
L picks it up after lunch. She then heads over the Mickleover and is understandably distraught
when another car runs into her. It turns out to be just a minor dint that
cleans up ok but we have to break open a large bottle of Leffe to help us get over it. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday L runs at Markeaton parkrun but the Lad and I just
watch. We have a coffee afterwards in the café before I drop L in Derby. I take
my Dad to the match where Derby beat Barnsley 3-0. We are in the Plough later
where the big question is which is better, the Coffee Porter or the Toffee
Stout. I think the Coffee Porter just shades it. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sunday is the dog club’s Members Day where we put on a day
of competition for the club’s members. The Lad is, of course, in equal parts hopeless and
embarrassing. On his very first run he takes off for a jump far too late and
face plants into the ground, all in his haste to cram a few extra tunnels in. It is all caught embarrassingly on
camera. He add two more Es later to complete a full set of three. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Back at home L runs without us again although I may have
died had I gone with her as I’m still not 100% but I do manage to go with her
to the Gym later. After which we have a home cooked Sunday Roast.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 12th November) <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">On Friday L joins
us on the morning walk. She has swapped her swim and gym days this week so
there's no Friday evening gym session. She goes this morning instead when she
can basically do what she wants to do without me getting in the way.</span>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I console myself
with a solo 4.4k run at lunchtime on the park. No dog, no L, Billy no mates. The park is eerily quiet, just the guy blowing the leaves off the golf greens and myself. He's been doing his blowing since 8am
this morning. I daren't mention that it looks to me as if he's simply blowing them continually from one
green to another. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">On Saturday we Parkrun
at Belvoir on their ‘winter’ course. The day starts dry and bright so I get
ready to run. Then of course it rains but I tough it out and still run. No dog
of course. The course has a long downhill start which I was dreading coming
back up but thankfully it finishes lower down by the car park. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">We have a coffee
then I drop L in Derby before taking my Dad to the New Inn in Shardlow for
lunch. Then I pop round to L’s Mum for a spot of DIY. It takes three of us to put a curtain rail up.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">L is at the gym
again later and I meet her afterwards with the Lad and we walk up to the Plough. This is despite the constant bombardment of Fireworks Night but the Lad isn't fazed by it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">On Sunday I wake up
ill with a bad cough. Perhaps it was a bad pint of Norfolk Nog last night or
perhaps it was a bad pint of Supreme or maybe a bad pint of the Oat Meal Stout or
maybe it’s Covid. I do a test which comes up negative, for Covid that is. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I am too unwell to
run so L does the Sunday run on her own but the Lad and I walk up to the Wollaton to
meet her for breakfast. Then she does the gym while I lie dying on the settee watching three FA
Cup games back to back. This includes Derby's game where two late goals mean they narrowly avoid an
embarrassing defeat to Crewe as the game ends in a 2-2 draw. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(Sunday 5th November)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">L starts the week in
work and has a boss. He must have got his days mixed up. Then on Tuesday she
is sent home because he has a problem with his car tyres.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Monday evening is
my cycling and perhaps I did overdo it on Sunday because my legs aren’t as good
as they usually are. The velodrome cafe is closed so my Dad has two packets of crisps
and a Kit Kat for his tea. My legs do seem better by the time I get a pint inside me at the Exeter
along with a Chorizo and Jalapeño scotch egg. The egg that bites back. I bet my
Dad wishes he’d waited for his tea.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">On Tuesday, after a
walk around a swamp like park, work is accompanied by keeping an eye on the
riveting Covid enquiry with a short break for lunch with my ex-colleague. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">L fills her unexpected day off by taking the
Lad for a lunchtime walk which she calls practising for retirement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Lad gets
another walk in the evening on the park which, with the clocks having gone back, is surprisingly still open at 5pm. It is also misty, spooky and Halloween-like
with the added excitement of the deer lurking in the shadows. I then head to the match where Derby beat Northampton 4-0. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The following
evening L and I do a 5k run along the ‘historic’ Rodney route. Which
results in my knees not being great the next morning despite </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> doing it without the lad</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">When I take my Dad for his
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2<sup>nd</sup> November</span><span>)</span><span><br /></span></span></span></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-5299177706755207892023-11-02T00:00:00.001+00:002024-02-16T17:00:43.121+00:00The View<p><b>Supported By The Rosadocs</b>
</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Support tonight
comes from The Rosadocs, a five piece from Sheffield who have shades of early
Arctic Monkeys about them and certainly don't lack for confidence. This specifically
includes lead vocalist Keelan Graney singing their fifth track from amongst the
crowd and continually bragging about selling out Sheffield City Hall tomorrow
night. Really? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">On closer
inspection (e.g. Google) this amounts to the 850 capacity Ballroom not the entire
City Hall. Not that that isn't impressive in itself as that's twice the
capacity of tonight's gig at the Rescue Rooms. Are they worth their own hype?
Maybe. They're very good. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnfHwvFuoIIRGEMyrVxQ1Eoh38uTiPafc0q33Q5q8VHPepTURpzHdsuHqimUspWbO5oleux3SscuvPOU1LvJRj3zMVzoPOsfM8UKVMZ9wqaQv_9Qc1UDNXNMWHFPruczWmQfWaOJgAUULp4eBsBelMsrRRk0aGyUb6XRnNMhhSVllpdnvcXQJDHXWvfF2/s2048/IMG_1695.JPEG" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtnfHwvFuoIIRGEMyrVxQ1Eoh38uTiPafc0q33Q5q8VHPepTURpzHdsuHqimUspWbO5oleux3SscuvPOU1LvJRj3zMVzoPOsfM8UKVMZ9wqaQv_9Qc1UDNXNMWHFPruczWmQfWaOJgAUULp4eBsBelMsrRRk0aGyUb6XRnNMhhSVllpdnvcXQJDHXWvfF2/s320/IMG_1695.JPEG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span>If they are a band
on the up, The View are a band whose trajectory has been all over the place. They
appeared in some style with 2007’s ‘Hats Off to the Buskers’ but their career has
been somewhat mixed since and not without some controversy. They seem to have
broken up and reformed many times or at least that is the perception.</span></span></span>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">In fact the opening
night of their current comeback tour back in May ended in a fight on stage in
Manchester between lead singer Kyle Falconer and the bass player Kieren
Webster. Which didn’t initially bode well for them making it as far as this gig
in Nottingham. Surprisingly though, here they are. They even dropped a new
album ‘Exorcism of Youth‘ in August.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">An oldie ‘Glass
Smash‘ starts things off in a lively manner with the more restrained ‘Grace‘ following
and then they are into ‘Wasted Little DJ’s‘, their debut single. At this point
it is clear that the band seem not only to be getting along with each other but
positively enjoying themselves. </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQ2RVH0jDmKgzRBMPoKYhz-JW2lvcZawAJI0pmXrxwKIymzaRAl3HO_wrbe9dGYRSXylj_WBUDFWrWsHIetu9EjBqHPRyZOdJkyAhE0DpaqkgT5r4corqf3hWjvkgOqPvsdJaVfd6edS3olaqBjCOlqGSqCkEMKU6-f2_vZFNMfkrGdwj2bBlzU5j1PsH/s2048/IMG_1715.JPEG" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicQ2RVH0jDmKgzRBMPoKYhz-JW2lvcZawAJI0pmXrxwKIymzaRAl3HO_wrbe9dGYRSXylj_WBUDFWrWsHIetu9EjBqHPRyZOdJkyAhE0DpaqkgT5r4corqf3hWjvkgOqPvsdJaVfd6edS3olaqBjCOlqGSqCkEMKU6-f2_vZFNMfkrGdwj2bBlzU5j1PsH/s320/IMG_1715.JPEG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Falconer’s voice is
still in great shape but then the group, who do seem to have been around
forever, are still in their mid-thirties.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">There are quite a
few tracks from the new album too which seem to go down well. ‘Neon Lights’ has
a shout along chorus which helps and just in case that isn’t going to be enough
for ‘Allergic To Mornings’, Falconer makes sure we know the words to the chorus
before we start. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6SQDsOtOOOCJqI7kxsG_ehSlIYi4rpuULHzit1yF0lVFXAy35NfejwbxowcbqufPizJByJX_iKCqmrrqBboxyXCHf2E6f6QxYzkTZBKfCmQDalDde5iplUhIdoPZwY2oH2V0GZMJcNQv1kGYXVihEII2a_lTTe9K2joKfSeYxiaLSipqbo4i2EqnTDCKM/s2048/IMG_1709.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6SQDsOtOOOCJqI7kxsG_ehSlIYi4rpuULHzit1yF0lVFXAy35NfejwbxowcbqufPizJByJX_iKCqmrrqBboxyXCHf2E6f6QxYzkTZBKfCmQDalDde5iplUhIdoPZwY2oH2V0GZMJcNQv1kGYXVihEII2a_lTTe9K2joKfSeYxiaLSipqbo4i2EqnTDCKM/s320/IMG_1709.JPEG" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Following another
new track ‘The Wonder of It All’, his sparring partner Webster takes the mic
for the almost impossible to sing along to ‘Skag Trendy’.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">You do feel throughout
that the gig is always teetering on the edge of chaos without ever quite
getting there but while that’s their modus operandi if anything tonight’s
performance could almost be described as slick particularly when Falconer sits down
on the drum kit for an acoustic version of ‘Face For The Radio‘. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIZO90FEamMKxX0Gopb4uHPQhj_uCWSimo9aLtovMNRiq9TfbuR6TDr0JxWu5WSzG1zil_PF9Dq80F9zYjnf-3G0NMIy-nGEZbNm90Cn4gig_L3oDjrlYJI3Ypz3JnJfSrRoJKL-pn4gsC3NPT38P3gOiVYRHEPMgBnriSXST0b9AmYXds5Gn5wSU85rW/s2048/IMG_1710.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIZO90FEamMKxX0Gopb4uHPQhj_uCWSimo9aLtovMNRiq9TfbuR6TDr0JxWu5WSzG1zil_PF9Dq80F9zYjnf-3G0NMIy-nGEZbNm90Cn4gig_L3oDjrlYJI3Ypz3JnJfSrRoJKL-pn4gsC3NPT38P3gOiVYRHEPMgBnriSXST0b9AmYXds5Gn5wSU85rW/s320/IMG_1710.JPEG" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">However after just
fifteen quickfire songs in a brief hour, the band seem to think fuck it and cut
three songs off the printed set list. After rattling through the energetic pair
of ‘Superstar Tradesman’ and ‘Shock Horror’ they leave the stage and don’t return
for an encore but, hey, that’s The View. </span>FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-89155691679118176892023-10-29T00:00:00.030+01:002023-12-07T16:29:56.619+00:00Intimidation<p>The week starts very misty on the park which makes it far harder
to spot the deer when they’re sneaking up to mug you.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Once again L goes into work then comes home again. Her boss
has phoned in deaf. Somehow. In the evening L swims while I cycle and then go
to the Alexandra because the Exeter is closed due to its cellar being flooded.
I hope to show my Dad the floods near the Alex but they have already receded. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tuesday there’s the excitement of a boiler service then in
the evening L is at a talk by Phillipa Gregory at Broadway which obviously I’d
love to have gone to but there’s a match.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Wednesday L does a morning run on the park and
intimidates us on our walk. Then I have physio which was as evil as usual. L goes
to work and stays there as she has a boss. Then she swims again while I dog
train. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday’s walk brings us into contact with a sweet 14 week
old collie pup. Although the Lad wasn’t as impressed with it as I was. It could be
an agility champion in the making and I did offer a swap but they didn’t seem keen. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I manage a quick faff around in the gym over lunch. It was
really busy and people were queuing up behind me for the leg curl conversing with
me in the secret gym language asking how many sets. One girl stakes out the joint,
sitting on the nearby broken leg press machine waiting and reading a book. The leg
curl is so popular, no wonder it’s L’s favourite. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening Comoran Strike on audio continues. It’s
taking a while to get through it and I’m sure L would have preferred to have simply read the book
but she’s intellectual. I have to have books read to me. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday L swims then goes to Leamington by train to meet a
very dapper looking Son who has had a beard trim, a haircut and a new jumper
for a job interview. The Lad and I pick her up at 5pm from Derby for a perfect Friday
night in, a keema that I cook, a dark Leffe and another episode of Jimmy
Savile. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I run Wollaton parkrun on Saturday, again in 28 minutes,
while L tail walks. Then I give L lift to Derby and join her later with my Dad
for lunch in a very overcrowded M&S and then for coffee in Cafe Rosa. It’s
traumatic not just because of M&S but because the parking is terrible. The
basement car park is shut again and there are roadworks near the bus station. I have to
park with my Dad on the surface car park at Siddals Road which isn’t ideal. I feel
we’re earnt another night in the Plough. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The clocks go back giving an extended and fruitful lie on
Sunday as well as an extended run, we’re now up to 7.8k, ending up again at Wollaton
for coffee and breakfast. I have a sausage cob but L has Granola with yoghurt which
looks really nice. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the afternoon we do the gym but I’m alone for most of it as L
is stuck outside after taking a phone call from our talkative friend who was the
owner of Doggo’s brother. She is filling L in on the latest location that her
nomadic wanders have taken her to which is, erm, Blackpool. We vow to visit. There's bound to be a parkrun.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then later I play squash with Daughter who, unprovoked, hits
me in the face with the ball. At least it wasn't the racquet. Despite that it’s a fun game which is unconnected
to me getting the whiskey out later.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 29th October) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-67375740593133516792023-10-22T00:00:00.001+01:002023-12-07T16:30:19.902+00:00Babet<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L is back at David Lloyd’s on Friday at 7am on a guest pass.
I don’t think she’s missing it much though. Abandoned at such an early hour the
Lad gets an early and extended walk. In the evening we do a ‘joint but not
joint’ gym session. L doesn’t like doing leg exercises on a Friday because of
parkrun on Saturday and I only really do leg exercises. So we do our own
things. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the end most parkruns are flooded off by Babet but Forest
Rec is on. So we go there. I support because we weren’t sure where to park now that
the Park and Ride car park is strictly only for tram users but it turns out
there is still loads of parking. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As I give L a lift into Derby we discover that most of Derby
is flooded and the A52 is closed at Pentagon Island. I manage to drop L off on
Pride Park so that she can wade the rest of the way but I then abort the plan
to take my Dad into town. Instead I take him to Asda in West Bridgford to do
his shopping although Wilford is also flooded. Amazingly we are passed by a
tram sloshing its way through the water. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then we collect the Lad and do the Admiral Rodney for lunch
where our sensitive dog is upset by the horse racing on the TV and we have to
slip him some chips to soothe his demeanour. L brings her Derbion headache to meet
us back at Aston. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we can’t do our usual night out at the Wollaton
pub as it’s packed due to the England v South Africa Rugby Semi Final. So we
visit the Plough instead for the first time in ages. It is quiet despite also
having the rugby on, has some decent guest beers and a new landlord. England lose
in the last few minutes. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Sunday run is extended to 7k this week ending up again at
the Wollaton for bacon rolls and coffee. Then in the afternoon we do a joint
gym workout and I get to take photos of my gym buddy looking hot and sweaty
which is a nice prelude to an afternoon in bed. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we go to the cinema in Beeston which is
called the Arc and we see The Great Escaper. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Great Escaper is based on the true story of Bernard
Jordan, a 89-year-old British World War II veteran, who ‘escapes’ from his care
home to attend the 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations in France in June 2014
after the care home failed to arrange for him to go. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasEu-ZOjbcucP1dzXMy4tMCRuoeROn6gmpOhVC7rES2P0X45IjTztAsdKmIkThAtUaTPfwXhVak3kQAZHqEbOqlOHasbTlTqGb0Toi04RWtfaqg_dmZxdLo_cAL-W8NueDwEJawfsy_FW0lPfIcVD0C28fNsmptWWk1K9yZQ3_GPXCNN_m7UyoEX2lBck/s1000/Great%20Escaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasEu-ZOjbcucP1dzXMy4tMCRuoeROn6gmpOhVC7rES2P0X45IjTztAsdKmIkThAtUaTPfwXhVak3kQAZHqEbOqlOHasbTlTqGb0Toi04RWtfaqg_dmZxdLo_cAL-W8NueDwEJawfsy_FW0lPfIcVD0C28fNsmptWWk1K9yZQ3_GPXCNN_m7UyoEX2lBck/s320/Great%20Escaper.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It stars Michael Caine as Bernard in his last film before
retirement and Glenda Jackson as his wife Rene in her last film before her sad
death in June this year. The premise seems tailor-made for a comedy offering
but thankfully that isn't the case. Instead what we get is a fairly melancholy
film about a man belatedly confronting his guilt at surviving the war and realising
that psychological battle scars never really heal. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It's a pleasant evening which we round off in the White Lion.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 22<sup>nd</sup>
October) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-43303285911342701322023-10-19T00:01:00.000+01:002023-12-07T16:29:48.362+00:00Little Man Tate<p>Kicking off the evening are the Shambolics from Glasgow
sporting three guitars, a bass player and a drummer. A proper old school set up even if
the third guitarist does dabble on the keyboards from time to time. Unfortunately
this energetic group of lads were only entertaining 29 people. I know the crowd
was that small because I actually counted them. It does get gradually busier
and I hope the band is pulling them in as they are decent. <br /></p>
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who come on to the Pearl and Dean music, you know 'bah bah bah', which is in
fact called 'Asteroid', and then Carter USM's 'Sheriff Fatman'. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have never actually seen Little Man Tate live before. I
followed them loosely in their early days but after releasing two albums in two
years they caught me by surprise when they broke up the following year. That
was in 2009. I vowed to right that wrong when after an eleven year break they
announced their re-formation in early 2020 but then of course Covid intervened. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now here they are in Nottingham on a UK Tour and that wrong
has finally be righted. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They get off to a flying start with three tracks from their
debut album 'About What You Know' namely 'Man I Hate Your Band', 'European
Lover' and 'What? What You Got' before they do that we’re going to play songs
from our new album thing. Which would have been fine had that first album in
over fifteen years 'Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life' been out but it isn’t until
next month. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbVzfyLHu_C3dujeXrvtHE07X8W7CipVxtdVJIPbQgrjTGcTtrPr0nYbatOhVy19kdfcdbsUzTlJ7KkJw80fQMZAv62tu_Zo1CsL_C-Uh1O2PwaFyJEDoltaIZ_djv9u5vFnm1I-Jp8cC02JneH5HwLLZlUt6aiAQzOxrd3ANehIakwRTvfNGQRBb7AW_/s4032/20231019_193802968_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVbVzfyLHu_C3dujeXrvtHE07X8W7CipVxtdVJIPbQgrjTGcTtrPr0nYbatOhVy19kdfcdbsUzTlJ7KkJw80fQMZAv62tu_Zo1CsL_C-Uh1O2PwaFyJEDoltaIZ_djv9u5vFnm1I-Jp8cC02JneH5HwLLZlUt6aiAQzOxrd3ANehIakwRTvfNGQRBb7AW_/s320/20231019_193802968_iOS.heic" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So to play no less than six songs that are unfamiliar to the
crowd is pushing your luck a bit but if anyone’s going to pull it off its frontman
Jon Windle who isn't a man who lacks for confidence as he tells us that the
first of these newbies called ‘Cheap Stolen Kisses’ is about his now ex-wife
having an affair with her boss. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s all very entertaining stuff and of course they do intersperse
the new material with more familiar crowd pleasers. This though, as they play non-album
singles 'The Agent' from their early days and 'Boy in the Anorak' that came
between albums as a download, brings us to another problem. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They have always been a band with a liking for one off
singles, B-sides, bonus tracks and downloads before they were as fashionable as
they are now. Which was one of the things that drew me to them. The problem is
after such a long time away, for a fair weather fan like me, getting hold of such
tracks is now rather difficult as I found prior to this gig. It has to be said that
most of the crowd, who know everything, don’t have this problem and clearly
grabbed all this stuff at the time. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNSx-VjKQwbLEezC0ftGyRd-MqPhRURgp4RMztcRoz2r00rs0Ax-2ZiyvjCkSSoYocV1RRcGDFODakFeLuWO8oxsG0mvOUwqvIAIHjSHnHGKclRapoHqf-oEqBNLY_aNg7upczPLSNPAZuQQ21kDcFunsndYDmVkIqgjKlv24XLvtHiR23PHpOJvL_ttl/s4032/20231019_201248146_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNSx-VjKQwbLEezC0ftGyRd-MqPhRURgp4RMztcRoz2r00rs0Ax-2ZiyvjCkSSoYocV1RRcGDFODakFeLuWO8oxsG0mvOUwqvIAIHjSHnHGKclRapoHqf-oEqBNLY_aNg7upczPLSNPAZuQQ21kDcFunsndYDmVkIqgjKlv24XLvtHiR23PHpOJvL_ttl/s320/20231019_201248146_iOS.heic" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">'This Must Be Love' from their debut is a show stopper towards
the end but the actual set closers are two newbies '23' and 'Beautiful, Deadly
& Mine'. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Initially Windle returns alone for the encore to play a couple
of songs on my own because, in his own words, he's ‘an egotistical fucking
wanker’. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course 'Half Empty Glass' was a B-side albeit a brilliant one and 'You
and Me Might Be Alright You Know' was available only on the iTunes version of their
debut album. I think us fair weather fans need a rarities album. <br /></p>
A fan, clearly not a fair weather one, is invited up on stage to do ‘You and Me’ with Windle and does it
some style. Then the whole band return for 'Sexy in Latin' and 'House Party at
Boothys' to finish things off. FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-65599572034163228042023-10-19T00:00:00.027+01:002023-12-07T16:31:54.016+00:00A Fictitious Dog Show<p>This week L is stressed about her job as she thinks
her boss is about to pack it all in but then only last week she was so looking forward to early
retirement. So I’m a bit confused but she comes home from work without her P45 as
he says he wants to continue working. I’m not sure whether to breathe a sigh of
relief or not. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L enters the Lad in a fictitious dog show that her friend
the author is putting together. He should be a shoe in for the waggiest tail,
that is if he’s not disqualified for not having one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tells the author that "<i>he is beautiful but also
pretty useless and is well used to being last at everything</i>". Then she
says that was actually a quote from me. If he can't even win a fictitious dog show then there really is no hope.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m so busy at work that I’m struggling to get away to make
my cycling. Not only that it’s my Dad’s tea, his social night and his pint that's at stake. I make it
in the end and we go to the Exeter afterwards. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L works from home on Tuesday and then is in work briefly on
Wednesday but then soon home again when no one else turns up least of all her
boss, whose TV is on the blink. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday is apparently World Menopause Day which I only
know about because my company is celebrating it but then it celebrates
everything. It's also the day of Storm Babet. No connection I'm sure.</p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m supposed to be out in the evening but my friend cancels, then
un-cancels. I think he’s worried about Babet. Whereas I always assume
these things are largely a figment of the media’s fervent imagination. </p><p class="MsoNormal">We meet
in the Alexandra where there’s a rather nice pistachio stout and then we eat in
Pepitos, which was slightly disappointing because I know that the Indian Porter
is currently on in the Exeter and for once I’m not driving. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L picks me up afterwards and saves me from being ravished by
Babet which largely seems to pass us by or, as I say, she was largely a figment
of the media’s fervent imagination. </p><p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday I have another gig at the Rescue Rooms.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">(Thursday 19<sup>nd</sup>
October) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-57186308814632182572023-10-15T00:00:00.013+01:002023-12-07T16:29:44.053+00:00The Derbion Headache<p>On Monday after my cycling this week’s pub rotation takes us
to visit the Silk mill. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tuesday L takes my Dad to physio as I am stuck at work.
He gets almost a full hour with the physio despite, at 95, not having a lot to
complain about. Then he comes home with L as we’re off to an away match at
Notts County in the EFL Trophy. I’m hoping it’s quiet as this is a Cup no one
is bothered about. Yet the works traffic is bad for the early 7pm kick off and
there’s still nowhere to park. Then I see a space in the street and we’re
parked. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have us seats on the second row which means hardly anyone is
likely to stand up in front of us. Then the group of lads who are in front of
us, who want to stand, let us swap seats with them. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Derby win 2-1 and then afterwards we have a beer in the Mist
Rolling Inn as I couldn’t park close to any of the better pubs on Caning
Circus. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L is in Cromford with friends on Wednesday which I believe
involves bookshops and cafes, maybe even a bookshop with a cafe. Then she’s at
her Mum’s, so it’s a long day for her. I have my physio which I’m persevering
with but I’m now moving him to fortnightly. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our evening walk is one of those where you put trainers on
because the park is wet and you intend to stay on the paths. Then the deer
force you to do otherwise and therefore you are forced to embrace wet feet. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday I’m tempted to drag L to the Robin Hood Beer Festival
even though she’d hate it but it’s so difficult to get to now it’s at Trent
Bridge. Then I realise that the lodger is at work so we can embrace Thursday as
if it’s a Friday and we also share large Leffe. Then, just to add to the
romance, we watch the first part of ‘The Reckoning’ about Jimmy Saville on TV. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L is at home all week, so she joins us on our morning walk
when she can and she even joins me in the gym on Friday lunchtime where they
have had some new treadmills delivered but what they need is new bikes. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we’re out in Derby for a curry with friends
at the Spice Lounge after first having a beer in Suds and Soda. In the
restaurant L orders Butter Chicken because she’s never had it and then gets
accused of having baby food by the waiter. This seems an odd tactic if you want
to encourage your customers to come back and I don’t think it’s going to work
on this occasion. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I make my return to parkrunning on Saturday at Alvaston in a
fairly tardy 28 minutes. Then I take my Dad for his flu jab in Littleover,
which he whinges about because it’s not his usual surgery. Personally I’m
delighted to go somewhere different and we get to go to the Alphabet cafe in
Mickleover for lunch. Meanwhile L is in Derby acquiring what she calls the 'Intu headache' but is really the 'Derbion
headache' as Intu are long gone in Derby. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening L and I are in the Wollaton pub where I’m not
sure I should have agreed to L’s request for a third Prosecco as I’m not sure
this will ease said Derbion headache. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Sunday we do a 6k run round the main Uni campus with the
Lad, half a dozen cats and about a thousand rabbits. Amazingly my knees
survive. In the afternoon we do a gym session together.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 15<sup>th</sup>
October) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-17900048815084471822023-10-08T00:00:00.010+01:002023-12-07T16:29:41.607+00:00No Mercy<p>We don’t bother with an alarm in the mornings any more as
6am is, rightly or wrongly, hardwired into the Lad’s psyche as his breakfast
time and he always gets us up. Well, he gets me up. Except that is when he
doesn’t. For instance when he oversleeps after ‘tunnel night’. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then we have to rely on L’s PT App which bings her at
something like 6:27 every morning to do her daily check in. It has no mercy.
Even when it’s not working properly as it isn’t at the moment. I seriously
suspect it was written by the same people who wrote Trent Barton’s Mango App.
Nothing goes wrong as often as that. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the meantime she is having to do her workout from memory.
Luckily the one exercise most emblazoned on her memory is the lying down
hamstring curl which is her ‘favourite’. Some things you will never forget. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L is in work briefly on Monday and is then at home for the
rest of the week as her boss is away. In the evening after my cycling, my Dad
and I are in the Exeter. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L has her PT on Tuesday and I have my physio on Wednesday. Tuesday
is also dog training where there are three tunnels in the ring. Three too many.
Then I have a committee meeting on Thursday <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L and I do a 5k run over lunch on Friday but we don’t do the
gym as L is not feeling her best although she does still go for a swim. I had a
sniffle earlier in the week but now L has inherited an upgraded version of it.
To be fair she did try to fight off my amorous advances. Her version though oddly
seems to include a nosebleed. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Saturday we do our third tourist Parkrun in a row at Watermead
Park, the home of the woolly mammoth that we can’t find. L is well enough to
run but the Lad and I are again only supporting. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Afterwards I drop the Lad at home, L in Derby and then pick
up my Dad. We then meet L and her Mum in Jamaica Blue for lunch where I have a full
English but with healthy poached eggs before being called upon to finish my
Dad’s pancakes. Shades of Scotland. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is getting harder and harder to park in Derby since they
closed the Riverside car park and then dug up half the roads in town. Today the
Basement car park is shut because its full so we park on floor 4 above M&S which
means a final coffee in BBs, as I believe those in the know call it. Then
after dropping L’s Mum in Mickleover, we pick up the Lad up from home and then I
cut my Dad’s grass. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We stay in as L is still not feeling her best and has another
early PT session on Sunday. After which we repeat last week’s trip to Colwick
where I run 5.4k with the Lad. After which we go to Beeston for coffee and a naughty
bacon sandwich. I cut the hedge back at home before we then both head to bed
exhausted but not too exhausted. We do manage a few drinks later in the Wollaton.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 8<sup>th</sup>
October) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-24629242751649187562023-10-01T00:01:00.001+01:002023-12-07T16:31:04.700+00:00Joy Formidable<p>There is a very packed stage equipment wise for support act The
People Versus and there are effects pedals everywhere. So many trip
hazards. Do health and safety know? I hope the band are small in number
but oh no. There are six of them and at the end of their set they do
freely acknowledge that not many bands will take a six piece support. </p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyRNSYFelIk-7tORVoNu45OprSSnhtP2DiY7Vv5fYuwgOO1d1iBp7mfKRnslWLTS6c3vOCSzG-vJ3VNc7SGvajN1A-XLnGn7T8dqrD6E8nZSEt3qiYin26IdXCbUDOQ04tO2b0Xj9NxK0KwR78wefto4-VjCD-I2tilnbeELUKl7rZjirJH7dC-ZI5o1pW/s4032/IMG_1600.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyRNSYFelIk-7tORVoNu45OprSSnhtP2DiY7Vv5fYuwgOO1d1iBp7mfKRnslWLTS6c3vOCSzG-vJ3VNc7SGvajN1A-XLnGn7T8dqrD6E8nZSEt3qiYin26IdXCbUDOQ04tO2b0Xj9NxK0KwR78wefto4-VjCD-I2tilnbeELUKl7rZjirJH7dC-ZI5o1pW/s320/IMG_1600.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br />In
Alice Edwards they have a strong singer but who seems a bit indifferent
to the crowd or perhaps this is just self-deprecating humour. This does
take the edge off what is bouncy and fun performance but they seem more
genuine by the end.<p></p><p>From a packed stage to a very stripped
back setup for the threesome that are The Joy Formidable on the last
date of their UK tour. There is even more space on stage for lead
vocalist\guitarist Rhiannon Bryan and bassist Rhydian Dafydd with their
unconventional set up that sees drummer Matt Thomas positioned sideways
on at the front corner of the stage rather than tucked away at the back.
This was a nice dynamic but I think they've always done this. For me
there’s no substitute for seeing a band up close and in full flow so
this is ideal as you rarely get to see the drummer so close up.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq87dtdB6vX8iEBcZUXihKSLQGRmhlwOSotzCMzWiC6RANCUo9Vj_UMTsyi4lcd3dgT6lhwvUIl_eOoLE_RMjudYA9PZ1gGeE-KoJeZhvkL_XO5KpgXsMUoGmVLMYIvJg_hCQih7jEWwdeLFsSkrJyd7m86LA0keJL4WYt612J7telKte0V-G9H1ThnrtW/s4032/IMG_1624.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq87dtdB6vX8iEBcZUXihKSLQGRmhlwOSotzCMzWiC6RANCUo9Vj_UMTsyi4lcd3dgT6lhwvUIl_eOoLE_RMjudYA9PZ1gGeE-KoJeZhvkL_XO5KpgXsMUoGmVLMYIvJg_hCQih7jEWwdeLFsSkrJyd7m86LA0keJL4WYt612J7telKte0V-G9H1ThnrtW/s320/IMG_1624.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><p>I
confess that it's been a while since I last saw them. Having followed
them closely right from when they started in 2007, I haven't actually
seen them live since 2010. I have missed out because they've always
been, well, formidable live and, as I soon discover, they still are.<br /><br />The
Rescue Rooms isn't full but it's busy and it's quite an old crowd as
well. Perhaps they've all been in from the start. Unfortunately things
have never really taken off for the band. Despite regularly securing
decent support slots and doing quite well in the States they've never
been able to move on from relatively small venues in this country.
Tonight that is to benefit of everyone who's here. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxFg2UXFrfjl43B1qYBxKxBlRdHg-JidZnNFv_WmlioutQPGsaYxcI0TvdHwWuyUfQcjgDwubpL3EmFY_FR8_BkM1uuedEbg_baWEhyrzvsnsqVUBQpmDdeZYl8C88FVAtpRNJs9oE4Fk3tdA64dXH5n85DvPhBUvlbgEpvI5Oq5AkadKCQTORfAF1Bef/s4032/IMG_1604.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxFg2UXFrfjl43B1qYBxKxBlRdHg-JidZnNFv_WmlioutQPGsaYxcI0TvdHwWuyUfQcjgDwubpL3EmFY_FR8_BkM1uuedEbg_baWEhyrzvsnsqVUBQpmDdeZYl8C88FVAtpRNJs9oE4Fk3tdA64dXH5n85DvPhBUvlbgEpvI5Oq5AkadKCQTORfAF1Bef/s320/IMG_1604.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p>After
starting with 'Caught on a Breeze', 'Sevier' and 'Ostrich' they finally
pause for breath and the first of many long rambling chats ensues.
These are occasionally with the audience but mostly among themselves.
One of these before playing 'Into The Blue' turns to how much Covid
affected a touring band such them and then somehow in to a discussion
about sheds. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMY1D4TSQgvIHZCluziYKgpKPWFHkdspWCKDsa8hiK8k30W7YW5TXYzfqVrp5cmdTfjQB4Z8SPSxne2YstCZa-hh_7yEd1TKT609jOYWLeqQ-o2W404MmzsiPh3KIaf0O4pg40c5dwnznQFZl05BSpJ_z8Ji34iAchLuTVSoCoZkb4hlyCd_tFOoYR47bu/s4032/IMG_1626.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMY1D4TSQgvIHZCluziYKgpKPWFHkdspWCKDsa8hiK8k30W7YW5TXYzfqVrp5cmdTfjQB4Z8SPSxne2YstCZa-hh_7yEd1TKT609jOYWLeqQ-o2W404MmzsiPh3KIaf0O4pg40c5dwnznQFZl05BSpJ_z8Ji34iAchLuTVSoCoZkb4hlyCd_tFOoYR47bu/s320/IMG_1626.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>We
get some of the 'hits' such as 'Whirring' and 'Cradle' then they play a
Welsh language song called 'Y Garreg Ateb' (the Answering Stone), which
was a total belter, and then an acoustic version of 'I Don’t Want To
See You Like This' before they close with their new single 'Share My
Heat'.<br /><br />They return to play 'Little Blimp' and then the slow-burning 'Left Too Soon', which seems apt as a show closer. <br /><br />They are still formidable and still deserve to be much better known than they are. FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-85603123700937315242023-10-01T00:00:00.000+01:002023-12-07T16:29:36.760+00:00Happiness At Work WeekThis week is International Happiness at Work Week and
naturally my company are throwing their all into it. Monday is Happiness
Radio Day with a feel good music list that I almost gave up on after the first
three were Steps, B*Witched and Taylor Swift but then we got Twisted Sister!
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiuBc4ljhyphenhyphenFBg2nE0hfgZLUf4O-hJGJi3xw5Mc2QdXeZPqrWsuqgGJUzsJoL36ZZ5BtmaL1CWecNrfyRhcUii8L5eUxQ0PaNDmwIL4QHZyJfqYiXQDJfwmc_BVRDvM4w6Sip4Kp1iA8hwLcDVJiBRPSFq_NM2WfP6_RzaoLb3wpk4YcDl_rJGwEyNQhcCn/s641/Happiness%20at%20Work%20Week.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="427" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiuBc4ljhyphenhyphenFBg2nE0hfgZLUf4O-hJGJi3xw5Mc2QdXeZPqrWsuqgGJUzsJoL36ZZ5BtmaL1CWecNrfyRhcUii8L5eUxQ0PaNDmwIL4QHZyJfqYiXQDJfwmc_BVRDvM4w6Sip4Kp1iA8hwLcDVJiBRPSFq_NM2WfP6_RzaoLb3wpk4YcDl_rJGwEyNQhcCn/s320/Happiness%20at%20Work%20Week.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />L gets sent home again when her boss doesn’t come in. He’s
probably hungover from celebrating Wales massive 40-6 victory over Australia in
the Rugby World Cup. In the evening it’s my cycling and afterwards a visit to
the Alexandra. <br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tuesday is Happiness in the Home Office Day. That is as in WFH
not the Government department. Happiness today is dodging the rain which we
manage to do on our walk but a work colleague of L’s isn’t so fortunate and is now
walking around in L’s spare clothes. The storm is so intense the Lad hides
under my desk. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I told L on Sunday that she was making the lying down
hamstring curl look easy and lo and behold today her PT increases the weights
on it. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we start the brand new Strike book the
‘Running Grave’ on audio. Everyone else we know is already half way through it.
Daughter has of course finished it. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday is Smile While You Dial. I’m not really sure what
that’s all about as I hate speaking to customers. L, who has another ‘day off’,
goes for her regular-ish Wednesday morning run while I ‘save myself’ for the
gym. Work is mad at the moment but I do manage to get to the gym briefly at
lunch but couldn’t get on most things. I did get on the leg press where I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be
concerned when other men compliment me on my calves. L swims with Daughter
later while the Lad and I are at dog training. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Thankful Thursday’ starts as usual with our walk on the
park. In the evening it’s the last tennis of the year because it’s now too dark
to play on an unfloodlit court but the four floodlit courts are totally
unbookable, there must be some secret society in charge of them, and the indoor
ones are far too expensive. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Feel Good Friday’ is also wear yellow day but who would
know what I’m wearing in my little home office and who would care. A feel good
Friday morning rather than a feel good Friday night makes L late for her swim
but hopefully it was worth it. We then run 4.4k together at lunch and are
gym buddies again later. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is another Golden Rams Coffee Afternoon for my Dad but
I am off the hook for that as my Brother has offered to take him. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s another tourist Saturday and we’re Beacon Hill for Parkrun.
This time I pre-empt the Lad’s histrionics and don’t even get him out of the
car until everyone has started. There is again a nice café and then afterwards
I drop L in Derby. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Derby’s match against Cambridge is rather dull 0-0 draw and
is overshadowed anyway by the death of goalkeeper Josh Vickers' wife Laura. As
a tribute the fans organised a standing ovation on the 31st minute, his shirt
number. This sort of thing happens a lot, often for the most tenuous of reasons
which are then quickly forgotten about. This however will live long in the
memory. Never before have I seen both teams stop playing to stand and applaud,
along with all the match officials as well as all the home and away fans. How
Josh Vickers kept it together I have no idea but he was probably glad he was
only on the bench today. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we attend our neighbour’s 80s Birthday party at
the nearly Crown pub. We appear to be representing the whole street as none of
our other neighbours make an appearance. Clearly it was just too wild a night
for them with its warning signs about dealing drugs, it’s lack of real ale and an
all brown buffet. </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7hVGvyaD9F2ilQlehPl6yp0q4m7W9JouBLZK3UnxA8-Nfdldjfz81oVhjJvHUDe11rDR8UTfOXdFcWwnRXcjiC3TmYPiBfQwwmwe8XwmWjYnk1Nn0K89gWktVCkoGI4c1Yq8qkbsnnv2wYDSHyzerL0Fw_bojeY68UXLCktRpq1g4uKaIP3jnTssbZAl/s2048/IMG_1591.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7hVGvyaD9F2ilQlehPl6yp0q4m7W9JouBLZK3UnxA8-Nfdldjfz81oVhjJvHUDe11rDR8UTfOXdFcWwnRXcjiC3TmYPiBfQwwmwe8XwmWjYnk1Nn0K89gWktVCkoGI4c1Yq8qkbsnnv2wYDSHyzerL0Fw_bojeY68UXLCktRpq1g4uKaIP3jnTssbZAl/s320/IMG_1591.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div>Bizarrely they have Belhaven Stout on keg which I’ve just
spent two weeks avoiding in Scotland. At an appropriate break in the proceeds
we escape to the Wollaton. <br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Having missed a couple of sessions while we were away L has
an extra PT session at 8am on Sunday morning. It was like getting up for one of
those early starting triathlons I used to do. I pick her up afterwards and we
head to Colwick for her swim and where I run with the Lad. This goes much
better than I expected although choosing to start on the muddy path at the back
of the car park was bad idea, grip wise. On the grounds of finding a secluded
start place where no one would laugh at us, it was a success. There were also not
200 parkrunners to upset him and just one squirrel crossed our path. We’ve all
earnt our afternoon in bed.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Then in the evening I have a gig.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 1<sup>st</sup>
October) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-41074337027717397082023-09-24T00:00:00.012+01:002023-11-07T16:19:30.682+00:00Any More SetsBack at home we do Parkrun at Clifton. I again run <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the Lad which is probably asking for
trouble particularly as when warming up my knee was so painful I nearly didn’t
start at all but it is better when I get going and we get round.
<p class="MsoNormal">Then it’s the match where Derby draw 1-1 with Portsmouth.
Saturday night is spent at the Gym which leaves L dripping wet with sweat after a heavy
cardio session. Nice. Meanwhile there’s me looking like a haggard old man doing
a one legged weights session as my right knee proclaims that it did enough at
parkrun this morning thank you very much. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Sunday we’re back on the Colwick swim and walk but my
walk is shorter than usual due to my dodgy knee. We skip the Daleside café and
head home for coffee. I cut the lawn and then join L later at the gym where I
do some upper body exercises as my legs have shot it. Monday morning’s walk is
also a bit of a hobble. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The knee copes better with the cycling in the evening and
the netball league is back on which is always good to watch when the actual
cycling gets a bit boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My physio is on Tuesday this week and we do upper body because
of my knee. Surprisingly I can still type afterwards considering he upped some
of the weights. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L in is work but without any work, just keeping her boss
company, still catching up on this blog, scrolling through Instagram and drinking
lots of tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Derby have a match in the totally pointless EFL Trophy formerly
known as the Papa John’s Trophy aka the Pizza Cup but even they can’t be
bothered to sponsor it any more. They play Exeter and win. Afterwards we go to
the Silk Mill. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Wednesday my knee is getting stiffer and it’s a tough morning
walk. Later I do a light gym session, just half an hour of my greatest hits. The
ones that aren’t too hard on the knee. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">People do keep talking to me in the gym. Which is kind of scary,
like I fit in. Although it’s mostly just everyone’s favourite catchphrase ‘you
got any more sets’ or variations on that theme. This basically translates as
‘get off that piece of equipment, I want to use it’. When a girl with a foreign
accent asks you about ‘sets’ it can sound like she’s asking you something else
but no, she’s just after your leg press. Later it’s our first dog training session
since the summer break. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday is my Dad’s birthday and he freaks Daughter out by
giving her a video call, an accidental one I assume. Most of us just got back
what looked like a standard reply when we messaged him birthday wishes. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was going to celebrate with a physio session but that has
been cancelled. So rather than going around to see him in the afternoon to take
him to that, I drop around in the evening with L. We take a cake with some
candles on it but we don’t stay long as we’ve seen at lot him recently and I
can’t face another evening finishing his chips for him. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We head to the gym and do a joint session although the new
entry gates aren’t keen to let L in for a second visit of the day. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lad and I struggle to get in the park gates on Friday as
there is chaos at the local Secondary School because their gates are locked and
there is a massive tailback of kids with many climbing the fence to get in to
school. They used to climb the gate to get out in my day. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The National Madison Championships, which was due to be at
Derby Velodrome on Friday, are cancelled due to lack of entries after British
Cycling refused to support their own event by providing some riders. It’s a shame
as I was going to take my Dad. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L has drawn up a list of some possible tourist Parkruns listing those
within an hour’s drive. Our first stop on the list is Belvoir Castle. I decide
to watch and not run but have to boot the Lad while they start so that they
call all hear the briefing. We then walk part of the course when everyone else
has started. There’s a nice café for afterwards. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I then go to cut my Dad’s lawn even though he’s not there as
he’s at a Classic Motorbike event at Cadwell park with my brother. Then I head
home to listen to Derby win at Carlisle. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L returns home from her trip into Derby with her Mum with
her usual headache. I take her to the gym to work out her frustration on the
dumbbells. We had considered the cinema later but surmise that we both might fall
asleep if we did. Instead we walk down to the Wollaton pub with the Lad. The
beer is Lincoln Green’s Hood which is not too shabby and the Prosecco comes in
smaller bite size portions from a large bottle. Although we have to send the
first one back as it’s flat. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Sunday we go watch the Robin Hood Half Marathon. I have
my deferred entry but obviously attempting to run it wouldn’t be a great idea. I
am very jealous of everyone while L is not jealous at all. We are slightly
shocked how long the roads stay closed for some seriously slow walkers at the
back. It’s one thing to walk it, it’s another thing to walk it that slowly. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the afternoon I visit my Dad and take him to Notsa. Then
in the evening my gym buddy and I are at the gym again. After months of trying
to edge my barbell squat up to 20kg on each end I finally manage it. 60kg in
total with the bar weight. </p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 24<sup>th</sup>
September) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-7884970254581190592023-09-15T00:00:00.023+01:002023-11-07T16:19:27.608+00:00September in Scotland (Part 2)Week two kicks off as week one did with Parkrun. This time at
Alness. It’s a really nice course out onto a land/sand spit with a 180 degree
turn around a human dressed as a cone. I run with the Lad, starting at a walk
after everyone else has gone. We gradually catch up and increase our pace.
Somehow we stay friends.
<p class="MsoNormal">We have a nice coffee with other parkrunners at the Commercial
Hotel then we drive to Dornoch beach via Tain where we allow the Lad back into
the sea. We have a beer at a pub in Dornoch. In the evening we walk from the
hotel to nearly Saltburn Woods. We have a nice meal back at the Ship Inn apart
from the fact that both the ice cream and the orange juice are too cold for my
Dad. Thank God for the Wild cat and it’s driven L to the Prosecco. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After hitting the breakfast buffet we drive along the length
of Loch Ness to Oban with apples, bananas and other snacks rolling around in
the car as my Dad has insisted on getting his money’s worth from the breakfast buffet.
After a very hot first week the weather has now turned and today it rains most
of the day. We pop into Nevis Range for a coffee and it would have been nice to
have taken my Dad up in the cable car but at £25 each not cheap. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We reach Oban and check into the Great Western. L and I go
for a walk and I check out the Fyne Ales in the Oban Inn. Back at the hotel L
does her weights workout while I dabble and the Lad disrupts. We eat in the
hotel and I find a very nice 14 year old Oban whiskey. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An ambulance rocks up later but it isn’t for me or my Dad
but there are clearly a lot of potential ‘customers’ in the hotel who have had
too many chips or there ice cream may have been too cold. Must happen all the
time. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdicgEF7LA_oIRReocl_xAQlRFI-QUFxx4F-V904HbergD-wBDO0haGNIL9mYLoYCUw72Iiyj-jfpYrPBe-U_zF8WClPVFtZ4SRzFCaSC-gJ6dSf2bVsEcJBmRDenn-2ytjJzroM3z5s3Sxims0m9sdNKo26Rchfsi4CDA1O54-jpNPzziLYp-tpsc1sb/s2048/IMG_1524.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdicgEF7LA_oIRReocl_xAQlRFI-QUFxx4F-V904HbergD-wBDO0haGNIL9mYLoYCUw72Iiyj-jfpYrPBe-U_zF8WClPVFtZ4SRzFCaSC-gJ6dSf2bVsEcJBmRDenn-2ytjJzroM3z5s3Sxims0m9sdNKo26Rchfsi4CDA1O54-jpNPzziLYp-tpsc1sb/s320/IMG_1524.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div><br />On Monday we spend a day in Oban without moving the car. L
and I walk up to Dunollie Castle past a rocky outcrop known as the Dog Stone. Then
we walk my Dad into Oban centre as far as the Oban Inn for first coffee and then
beer. Unfortunately the Oban Bay Brewery that served us well last time is no
more. After returning him to the hotel we then walk up to McCaig’s Tower. In
the evening we go for a curry at Spice World which appears to have nothing to do
with the Spice Girls. My Dad eats everything for only the second time, the other
time being the curry in Stornoway when again there were no chips on offer. The
owner bribes us with free whiskeys to encourage us to write a review online. I
oblige as it was a decent curry. We have another whiskey back at the hotel. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYUX5CFjhWALxIjx6RbCW9RbL-vIBv23fchQOeDHiPzwB8oAFwdiA-1PTC1-4AnWmPrSdV1rXTB90ao60UhZwg55fBvPLN5Qiyx-G0PSpeL7gPR81J3kxt-EHMaYcuFrVE-NxUbPnMnNrUNs43GVnqJAaezMCZoH7-s5CGam13dznBDax0W55J8pYzoRD/s2048/IMG_1529.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYUX5CFjhWALxIjx6RbCW9RbL-vIBv23fchQOeDHiPzwB8oAFwdiA-1PTC1-4AnWmPrSdV1rXTB90ao60UhZwg55fBvPLN5Qiyx-G0PSpeL7gPR81J3kxt-EHMaYcuFrVE-NxUbPnMnNrUNs43GVnqJAaezMCZoH7-s5CGam13dznBDax0W55J8pYzoRD/s320/IMG_1529.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We start Tuesday with a morning run. I am feeling my knee a
bit so I only do 2.5k but L does 4k. Then we drive to Tarbert on Loch Fyne (the
Tarbet with an extra r). We get the ferry across then head to Colintraive where
we grab a coffee at the Colintraive Hotel before getting on the ferry to Bute. Retracing
our steps of what was the Lad’s first trip to Scotland but in reverse. We grab
an ice cream in the centre of Bute then head to our hotel, the Glenburn in Rothesay,
which is mightily impressive place. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the weather dropping colder having to warm L up between
the sheets in the late afternoon has become a regular and rather pleasant
ritual. On this occasion though we then have to head back into town to get the Lad
some dog food, a dog cannot survive on chips alone, then we have what has
become another regular ritual, a pre-Dad drink in bar. They have no beer
obviously but do have Schiehallion lager in bottles which is at least Scottish.
Sadly just like the Oban Bay Brewery, the Bute Brewery has shut down and
overall there are far less bars serving real ale in most of the places we’ve
visited compared to what it was when we last came up here. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazingly we manage another meal without chips and my Dad
doesn’t get a dessert either as the staff seem to lose interest in serving us.
We have a few whiskeys but L opts out, leaves us drunks to it and goes to bed. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday sees us do a car tour of Bute following the tour bus
route that we didn’t think would take the Lad. He gets on the beach at Ettrick
Bay, we have coffee at Kilchattan Bay, visit a book shop in a phone box and
then have a beer (a real one, Jarl on handful) at the community owned Anchor at
Port Ballantyne. L insists on again being warmed up in bed later that
afternoon. In the evening my Dad finds another motorcyclist to talk to in the
bar which makes for a long night as only one person in the conversation knows
what he’s talking about but L manages to escape early again. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR_kF0Wy86kZ_d4sHLJlCWDgzMr3UDdnsc7v_gvuJSFZQR52EuGkoEazhEE8lne4_tgC7NxzJN7IImXAoCG5Dwi1kEInH616rljHdxS5w7aqOmL3MP0vFam-jrTQ4W4VVsXf0NnMW9EKCUWc3yHOehzNJn1lrcSDIne6BOkUdI9a0zzcHGEVxPA4bp_UgA/s2048/IMG_1536.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR_kF0Wy86kZ_d4sHLJlCWDgzMr3UDdnsc7v_gvuJSFZQR52EuGkoEazhEE8lne4_tgC7NxzJN7IImXAoCG5Dwi1kEInH616rljHdxS5w7aqOmL3MP0vFam-jrTQ4W4VVsXf0NnMW9EKCUWc3yHOehzNJn1lrcSDIne6BOkUdI9a0zzcHGEVxPA4bp_UgA/s320/IMG_1536.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Thursday we manage another morning run, 4k this time
before we check out. Not content with raiding the breakfast table my Dad steals
all the toiletries from the hotel as well. We then get the ferry to Wemyss Bay
back on the mainland. We drive done the coast to our final stop at Portpatrick stopping
on the way down literally opposite Ireland at a tearoom near Turnberry. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The hotel is again impressive and has a great cliff top
location, the harbour below is impressive too and on our last day delivers the
best beers of the holiday where the Crown Hotel, visited on our pre-Dad trip,
has hand pulls from Galloway’s Five Kingdoms Brewery. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52xkoqPDtYar47CAUqNj3jZ2oKsd-pN-cF18ZhmdrBdrRU1TuLVB4zJ99upUtGZrubZJullT5lw7NeYSgHTY_zIzvdU2RXLQnPS6Ijkq7lT_KENtRIUm3CXFQ9F6CbXWKDyd26hawM5HIIKdiaUlRWAOWVK1veZ6_Epre27XxJmaGAa9A0tPR0gu5Gi8E/s2048/IMG_1544.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52xkoqPDtYar47CAUqNj3jZ2oKsd-pN-cF18ZhmdrBdrRU1TuLVB4zJ99upUtGZrubZJullT5lw7NeYSgHTY_zIzvdU2RXLQnPS6Ijkq7lT_KENtRIUm3CXFQ9F6CbXWKDyd26hawM5HIIKdiaUlRWAOWVK1veZ6_Epre27XxJmaGAa9A0tPR0gu5Gi8E/s320/IMG_1544.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The best beer of the
holiday comes at the very end of it. Our hotel also sells their beers in
bottles and their Invisible Hand ale accompanies my evening meal. </p><p class="MsoNormal">On Friday we depart for home via breakfast near Dumfries in
the same roadside café\container that we have visited before. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZpnrFMwnX8Ne2mhUX6pLi79NgwSxxvFcC23fsDeaECqvNInzBwYhI2Y9BZvl0eUsMb3TSwITuXl3ZZl1-QZGuc5kLMjHkhZg2g3AtfmF7hy1kiyUxboefw7fieGCigjUYN8QQ3dvxiM1321qrIX58Odftd3HD7qmH_2LM65umvcP-4giBsjUqmRrZE5hy/s2048/IMG_1550.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZpnrFMwnX8Ne2mhUX6pLi79NgwSxxvFcC23fsDeaECqvNInzBwYhI2Y9BZvl0eUsMb3TSwITuXl3ZZl1-QZGuc5kLMjHkhZg2g3AtfmF7hy1kiyUxboefw7fieGCigjUYN8QQ3dvxiM1321qrIX58Odftd3HD7qmH_2LM65umvcP-4giBsjUqmRrZE5hy/s320/IMG_1550.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The trip down the
M6 is a nightmare but then what other types of M6 trips are there.</p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-20304549589927020692023-09-08T00:00:00.015+01:002023-11-07T16:19:18.207+00:00September in Scotland (Part 1)Our two week holiday starts locally in Alvaston with Parkrun.
Well it does for L. Despite making my comeback last week the Lad and I support
then we collect my Dad and head north. It’s a decent drive up and we arrive in Arrochar
in good time. We are again staying at the Claymore Hotel along with the coach
parties of overweight chain smoking tourists. The set menu delivers a decent
Spag Bol but the bar has no beer, not even the Loch Lomond cans of last time,
and the wine is awful. I’m almost jealous of L’s fizzy water. We decamp to the nearby
Village Inn for some decent hand pulled Loch Lomond Pale Ale.
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihiO18TCOK8oLLyr7eKLt-PCWi3GTTRTafGFqkGMiAZmsKf9lV6c4vG-85mvSDOX4TGCBS65wHq8R78oVU01L53o9dhqOxmTBuGQ7dxlJhrOIGdjly_5Co7yEnhzlOwB5XuJ40hY2b1uUCLXzySqCBu9USyTYeFGzIkmutfigw6TGF760EiEICXVIO4NQg/s2048/IMG_1450.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihiO18TCOK8oLLyr7eKLt-PCWi3GTTRTafGFqkGMiAZmsKf9lV6c4vG-85mvSDOX4TGCBS65wHq8R78oVU01L53o9dhqOxmTBuGQ7dxlJhrOIGdjly_5Co7yEnhzlOwB5XuJ40hY2b1uUCLXzySqCBu9USyTYeFGzIkmutfigw6TGF760EiEICXVIO4NQg/s320/IMG_1450.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><br />L's PT has done her a programme to take on holiday which
means we have a set of dumbbells in the car and on Sunday morning we make use
of these doing a weights workout in the hotel room before breakfast. Which is
then followed by a not terribly healthy cooked breakfast. <br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After which we drive to stop number two at Morar. On the way
we stop at a cafe in Arisaig called Sound Bites where my Dad has a mid-afternoon
snack of Apple Crumble with custard. We don’t join him. We have vowed not to join
in these indulgent mid-afternoon treats and save ourselves for dinner. This turns
out to be a very decent meal at the Morar Hotel which features for me, and what
becomes a reoccurring theme, Scallops and Black Pudding. They also have most of
the Skye beers in bottles. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We don’t have breakfast at the hotel and catch a relatively
early ferry over to Lochboisdale on South Uist during which we have the classic
Cal Mac breakfast. The Lad stays in the car for the duration of the three and
half hour journey but it’s last time he does so. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On arrival we drive onto Eriskay, from where the ferry goes
to Barra, to get the Lad some beach but it’s not a Dad friendly beach, so my
Dad stays in the car. Then we drive up through Benbecula to the Lochmaddy Hotel
at the top of North Uist, a place that’s been on the to do list for some time. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L and I do an early evening 5k on the local roads, I mean
road. Then we have a decent Sunday Roast on a Monday e.g. Beef in Red Wine
along with more Scallops and Stornoway Black Pudding. There are no beers to
speak of, so it’s on to the whisky. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCKMNGSowZUXEX87vsUVO46ta1rotY3mmbWRc1unohdZTR1Mrxk_4VXdeSy4KzbJRAFMfnT_1DYidBdOkgNulyBWmuQawHwPjWpCnOkWaVK9cSmtkuKr2245-SjpHrRWI20jqDNa6oqvhy1RxkXkYPWZwJqzI_up6hdhnXWScb3cj_QTWa0kHQ0BYUZhs/s2048/IMG_1474.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCKMNGSowZUXEX87vsUVO46ta1rotY3mmbWRc1unohdZTR1Mrxk_4VXdeSy4KzbJRAFMfnT_1DYidBdOkgNulyBWmuQawHwPjWpCnOkWaVK9cSmtkuKr2245-SjpHrRWI20jqDNa6oqvhy1RxkXkYPWZwJqzI_up6hdhnXWScb3cj_QTWa0kHQ0BYUZhs/s320/IMG_1474.JPEG" width="240" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Breakfast is Eggs Béarnaise with yet more BP. Then as we’re
not moving on today we head to Clachan Sands beach which is Dad friendly. He
gets his chair out on the beach while I take the Lad for a run along the beach
which has mixed results as we both seem to be playing to different rules. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then L swims and I almost join her but I have a land locked
dog and an errant father to keep an eye on, who at one point absconds into the dunes
for a comfort break. Afterwards we have coffee at the Berneray Bistro café and
then a cliff top stop where my Dad lusts after a 900cc Triumph motorbike a chap
from Barnsley has. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Back at the hotel we do another weights workout and share a
hot bath. A rare treat that we can’t do at home. L is also checking out
Scottish gyms although I’m not sure they have such things here on the Hebrides.
Folk probably just toss cabers. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After sharing a bottle of red with the evening meal, the lad
rounds a pleasant day off by vomiting up his tea. He is promptly banned from
finishing my Dad’s chips, which my Dad is ordering every night but rarely
eating, and temporarily from beaches. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next morning we head to the Berneray ferry terminal to get
the ferry to Leverburgh on Harris which is my favourite Hebridean island. We drive
along the half marathon route that we did back in 2012 and stop to use the toilets
at the campsite we stayed on. Despite being my favourite island, Harris has
nowhere dog friendly to stay that has vacancies not does its capital Tarbet have
any cafes open that we can stop at. While the distillery, which is launching
its first malt in three weeks’ time, has only three outdoor benches. All are occupied.
So we continue driving to Lewis where based on past experience we believe cafes
also do not exist. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After this longish drive we arrive at our Airbnb in Stornoway.
There is a handy shop across the road from where we buy two pre-prepared curries
to cook for tea. Then we go for a walk up to Stornoway Castle. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the morning we return to Stornoway Castle this time for a
5k run and then have breakfast at Stornoway Golf Club. After which we set off
to find Baltic Books for L and have a look around Stornoway which I still think
is a bit of a dump. Beer wise the highlight used to be the Hebridean Brewery but
that went bust in 2019. The only other bar that sells real ale and is still
going appears to be The Crown Hotel but that is only selling Landlord and
Deuchars. We go there for a coffee as we await the ferry to Ullapool. After his
first ferry trip in the car, the Lad is now getting up on deck for each one. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ullapool also isn’t good for beer. The Ferry Boat Inn has a hand
written paper pump clip saying ‘6X’ but the bar staff don’t know what it is. I
assume it’s Wadsworth 6X from Wiltshire so not really what I’m looking for. The
Argyll Hotel has nothing at all. The Arch Inn saves me which has Cairngorm Stag
on. I have a couple while L indulges in a Gin and Tonic. The Caledonian Hotel
where we’re staying has Skye Red on keg which is better than nothing and the
best Whiskey of the holiday in a 12 year old Glenmorangie called Lasanta that
is matured in sherry casks. Very nice. Food is also good with the first Cullen
Skink of the trip. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday we have breakfast at the Bothy by the campsite we
once stayed on then take a short walk along the sea front. Then we drive across
the width of Scotland to Invergordon near Inverness for the only reason you’d
drive across the width of Scotland. For parkrun of course and not purely for
the excellent gelato some chap is serving from his van. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Ship Inn where we’re staying has Cairngorm Wild Cat in
bottles, Cairngorm Stag’s big brother, plus the local Dalmore whiskey. My Dad,
seemingly intent on fattening me up, orders mac and cheese with chips and
sticky toffee pudding to follow with no chance of finishing either. He then
offers the leftovers to the Lad and I.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(Friday 8<sup>th</sup>
September) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-53867482928365506552023-09-01T00:00:00.006+01:002023-11-07T16:19:11.936+00:00Best Before End December 2018Monday is a Bank Holiday so it’s a lazy morning in bed and
then a not very lazy afternoon. We 5k run together on Martin’s Pond then gym
together. In the evening I cook a healthy (hopefully) and high protein
(hopefully) Thai Curry.
<p class="MsoNormal">On the healthy (hopefully) front L turns to Quinoa Porridge.
The only problem is our bag of Quinoa is best before end December 2018. She
doesn’t seem fazed but also doesn’t seemed impressed by her new breakfast snack
and doesn’t ask for a fresh in date bag which might have made a difference. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tuesday I’m out with my Dad at the New Inn in Shardlow
where they have Tiny Rebel’s version of Old Peculiar, that I mentioned a while
ago and said I’d never see. Which is fantastic until you’re driving, which
obviously I am. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">L is still not well with an upset stomach, which she had prior to out of date Quinoa Porridge, and doesn’t swim
or gym on Wednesday. I’m at Physio though where I am given a shiny new workout.
The only problem is it’s all upper body. After which my arms ached so much that
it took me three attempts to put the car in reverse to get out of the gym car
park. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Quite how a humble physio session on my knee has now
transcended into an upper body workout that ends with me doing something called
snake wiggles on something called a battle rope followed by ten press ups,
three times over, I’m not sure. Well, obviously he’s just extending his payday
or he’s just an evil bastard. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m back at the gym on Thursday but not practicing my snake
wiggles, just working on the decrepit old knees. In the evening we have tennis despite
the iffy weather forecast. We can only hope that as they have brand new courts
hopefully they won’t flood as much and if they do they will hopefully have
brand new squeegees to mop them. In the end it doesn’t rain while we are there and
they even put the lights on for us. I win three games again and celebrate with
a Orange-utan (it’s a beer) in Victoria afterwards before picking L up from her
own gym session. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday L has brought forward her Saturday trip with her
Mum and therefore leaves me to my own devices on the Friday lunchtime run.
Predictably, without my pacer, I may have got a little carried away and run 6k.
We do the gym later where we are both in awe of a girl reading a book on the
treadmill. </p><p class="MsoNormal">(Friday 1<sup>st</sup>
September) <br /></p>
FitForNothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01183254825148125915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5307185002086385537.post-71519672113952262642023-08-27T00:00:00.001+01:002023-11-07T16:19:09.146+00:00Snapped<p class="MsoNormal">In the gym on Sunday I snapped my resistance band while
doing my crab walks, so I buy some new ones from Argos but they simply aren’t
tough enough. I could well end up snapping these as well. I can see I’m going
to have to put some research into this. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are obviously trying to be healthier at the moment. We
have both lost a bit of weight and L is targeting a new sexy swimsuit. Our
neighbour is unknowingly helping out by giving us a lot of free veg although
this mainly seems to be courgettes but they have also recently given us some
nice blackberries and tomatoes as well. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now we are trying to avoid UPFs (Ultra Processed Foods)
which apparently means hello to Sourdough bread which isn’t a problem because I
like it anyway apart from the price. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Monday is Cycling and the Exeter. Tuesday is the gym and then
I’m out with my old school friend and for a change, after about ten years of
planning, we meet in Beeston where we go the White Lion, The Star and then eat
in the Victoria. He comes over on the train, I’m on the bus. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday is Physio. Thursday is the gym at lunch and I meet
L there after her yoga is cancelled. She doesn’t have much luck with yoga. Then
it’s tennis in the evening and afterwards back in the Victoria. Friday is my
appointment with the Hygienist. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Friday evening we got to a BBQ that isn’t a BBQ at my ‘long
lost’ cousin’s at West Hallam. My Brother told me it was a BBQ and we nearly
brought something to chuck on the barbie. So it was a good job we didn’t. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They cook for us and both three cousins who I haven’t seen
since the 1980s, apart from at my Mum’s funeral, are there in an event that
seems to be purely for our benefit and my brother’s. L comes even though she
isn’t very keen and also isn’t feeling very good. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Saturday she’s feeling no better but still runs Long
Eaton parkrun, alongside me as I make my return. We set off at quite a good
pace but ease back to a 34 which is slightly up on L’s run last week and that’s
with her being unwell. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is also my parkrun anniversary as a helpful email from
them tells me. My first parkrun was on 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2015. Since then
I’ve done 137 of the buggers. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I go over to my Dad’s in the afternoon and we listen to
Derby shock Peterborough by unexpectedly winning 4-2. They can be a decent side
sometimes, just far too rarely. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evening we go to the Arboretum Outdoor Craft Beer Festival.
I had planned this thinking it would be more L’s thing beer wise than a normal
beer festival but this was before she took a break from drinking. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The event is a disaster as the beer choice is so poor with
the staff openly saying everything good had sold out in the afternoon. The
music is ok but the best pint I have is a pint of Tuck in the Borlase
afterwards. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Sunday L is still very unwell and skips her outdoor swim
and the gym. So I go to the gym on my own where I try out another set of resistance
bands that I have bought online. They are better, well at least they don’t snap
or look like they’re going to snap like the Argos ones. </p><p class="MsoNormal">(Sunday 27<sup>th</sup>
August) <br /></p>
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