smiling immediately as it is raining!

Hello,

I have quite a few notes to discuss this week. Hmmm, I am finding that although I want type this now (Friday morning), it does require some energy, which I do not have or want to expend before my physiotherapy session, later today.

Cheerio!

;)

OK, I have a bit of time to spare before I head out in the rain again! My final note, made as I’ve just been out and had a coffee.

I find myself smiling immediately as it is raining!

Summer sun has disappeared this morning, and we are reminded that we are in England! I don’t know whether I smile because I enjoy the rainfall (refreshing, purity), or because everyone else is grimacing, I want to be different!? I am unsure.

I was welcomed by the builders/workmen around on the main high street, as I passed, as always. Surprisingly one offered his views on the ‘alternate weather’…

'Sh*t weather, ain’t it?'

OK, it can’t be much fun at work, outside, in the rain. However, I am flummoxed by everyone’s dismal attitude towards water in the sky.

Physio…

… Late afternoon. Usual ‘Blog time’. I continue. My first note is perhaps unsurprisingly, about music. I went shopping, earlier in the week. My plan was to buy the downloadable mp3, of Sigur Ros, but to feed my old love of ‘CD buying’ with attaining the new, debut album, by Nadine Shah, ‘Love your Dum and Mad’. I was in the one cd shop I have left, but unsurprisingly they didn’t have this in stock. Neither did they have the Sigur Ros that I was after. I left sulking. I downloaded both when I got home.

I give you the example of Nadine Shah, from Youtube. It is good quality, although, it may be heard on one listen as quite deep and dark!

My comment on coffee this week, is such…

Machiatto plus water does NOT equal a cappuccino, in the same way as an espresso/Americano.    

The above comment is fairly self explanatory. I use it just to warn me against making this error again!

My next note was made on Monday 2^nd September (aka transfer deadline day). Big mews was surrounding Gareth Bale, who moved in a very wise direction, away from White Hart Lane, towards Madrid.

Bale 56p a second, hmmm good, but I've done better!

I was then told the above fact, of his earnings. 56p per second! Hmmm, pretty good. Lucky man. Although I remain safe in the knowledge that he is not as lucky as me, no-one ever will be. Everyone’s luck should be relative to their own experiences. Hmmm mmmm. I could go on and on, but I fear will be sounding arrogant, self-righteous, and stupid. So, no.

I typed the next note on my phone, aiming to calm myself down, as it caused me to become irate! 

Effin' NUMBNUT bike rider!!

A bike rider overtook me whilst cycling on the 'no cycling' riverside path, he walked across the zebra crossing on the road, then cycled away down the pavement!!

I need a deep breath. Tut 

He is not a cyclist, he is a bike rider, but he will give EVERYONE who owns a bike, a bad name. Grrr

I will not explain it as it will cause me unnecessary stress to re-live it!

Instead, a bit of fun. Follow the link:

 a bit of fun...

After I missed a session of physiotherapy on Tuesday, I had the day free, so enjoyed the sunny weather, and took myself on a trip to South Kensington (via train to Clapham Junction, and then bus). I enjoyed my free time, having a coffee in a café close to the wonderful tube station. I must admit that I enjoyed a fair bit of ‘people watching’ in this beautiful area of West London.

I was prepared and ready, but all of the planning needed on such a trip in a wheelchair, means that one cannot change their mind mid journey. For example, as soon as you board a train in a wheelchair, you must tell the staff where you will disembark, you cannot choose mid-journey! Not a big problem, but something wheelchair users have to consider, unlike everyone else!

My blog this week, starts annd finishes on the same topic , ‘music’. Maybe I buy too much, but hey.

I went to the cd shop for a second time this week, in search of the Placebo EP released last year. Hmmmm. No surprise, I fail. However, I do stumble upon the new Mark Lanegan album, ‘Black Pudding’. It is quality, and definitely one of my favourite of the year so far.