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See the world......
It's a Sunday and for the first day in a while I am not actually doing anything so thought I would take some time to write down what has at times been a most bizarre and yet enjoyable week.

If you don't live in this country then you should take it from me - it's unseasonably hot here. Which of course makes my job more interesting (i.e. hard, but i digress because I've already fallen into the very British trap of complaining about the weather, even if good). Work this week consisted of teaming up with old friends (good and oddly proud inducing) and more formality interviews for this paid training course I should eventually be starting in september (still yet to recieve any official paperwork that I am on said course which is somewhat frustrating to say the least).

Other random things that now slip translucent-like into my slightly tired mind from the week -

- I am going to Croatia in the summer. Dubrovnik to be more exact. Cannot wait, will be quite a different city to some of the bigger European cities I've been too plus we have an apartment with a stunning view. I will also get up to Scotland at some point!

- I went to see the Goo Goo Dolls at Brixton Academy last Sunday. They were much, much better than I expected them to be. The singalong to Iris sent chills down my spine - never heard a crowd in better voice in such a small venue before. Shame about rude people that insist on chain-smoking in the middle of a crowd.

- I went to visit my friend Sam's university exhibition on Thursday night. He'd made a design portfolio and models on a tram design for London and it was really well done. Though somewhat paradoxically they got Jade Goody from trashy reality TV show Big Brother to open it. I think Sam may have tried to campaign against it! The previous night i'd been out with him and his friends in Hitchin and realised that I had probably neglected that place for far too long - some great bars.

- It got to Friday and it was still Hot. So I drove to Bristol in Friday night traffic! But when I got there I had very nice beer and mexican food so all was better. Yesterday was the start of England's world cup campaign and somewhat unfortunately for us, our gig just hours before kick off at Oppo (www.oppoharmonicfusion.co.uk). The place was pretty dead but there were a few people who came to watch us so we decided to position ourselves by the breezy windows and play unplugged. Nice dynamic and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Also getting more interest for future gigs so it was still worth doing. Then I squeezed into a pub and watched England play not *too* badly and win our first group match.

I went CD shopping in Bristol (it has a FOPP), and got many things - including the new Gomez album, Black Cherry by GoldFrapp and the best of Nina Simone. The new Gomez album is just exceptionally great and I urge anyone and everyone to buy it because I think it's the best thing they've done in ages! And I shouldn't like GoldFrapp but can't seem to stop myself thanks to Alison Goldfrapp's voice and some actual intelligent use of electronic instruments. I'm going to see the Dixie Chicks on Thursday with my Sister which should also be very good.

It was then time to head back home so I had today to rest and gear up for another busy week. More updates soon, hope all is well with everyone and special mention to all those people seeing Split Enz right now - I would like to have gone to the gigs, I know there is one person i would like to have seen even more - I think I just need to pluck up the courage to tell her that.