where did i leave my digi camera......?...

ah yes

found it.

joel.

the girls are whispering downstairs...shhhhh...

now upstairs.

well i guess tonight is a night of fotos....

as stacy gets packed upstairs, lamenting the leaving of her very well-to-do, civilised english manner:


we are then welcoming back, moments later, cathers back to native england. fitting perfectly into the english country garden as pictured:

she discusses the relative differences between schneider aventinus and erdinger weisbier with bea. as it was, i went predoninantly for the aventinus, as usual, according to the wise hodgson's recommendation (although i did try again, the chimay red, pleasantly surprised by it's taste/ hoppiness)... a photo to follow...

well greg did follow, we got to the devonshire cat, the finest purveyors of fine beers in fine sheffield, greg is moving to sheffield to do TT:



but meanwhile rachel (sprorting her new haircut, thank you to erika) arrives a little late to sample something or other and say goodbye to stacey, little knowing that stacey, whilst staying in sheffield a few days more will also make it to reenbelt in the same car on thursday.....

the following day i:

oh no one takes fotos of me. the man behind the camara, never in front, i will (most likely be travellinf to greenblelt with simon ennis (the menace) on the friday to join with other for who knows what aside from seeing kate rusby play live on the friday eve. am currently listening to her new album, out today (yesterday?...) the most consistantly listened to artist in (my) history (listening to her on average probably once per day since 31st dec, '02), the coming of her new album has been possibly the most eagerly waited of releases in the past year or two.



i mean, even when the scanner and msn messenger started up, the noise windows XP makes, even that's in tune with her music! of course, someone such as nathan might take that as a slur against her musical character - if that were the case (and i must say i have reason this week to dispute his case for mac's!!), please over look it - whilst her new album is not as obvious as ten (which was a retrospective of ten years music) her new album of new stuff may seem to be more a pleasantly slow burner, and still making kate rusby's "ten" possibly the most compelling album i've heard in the last 4 years. in fact, not since an early 90's pearl jam or smashing pumpkins album have i been so consistantly into a cd than this year. and so maybe that brings me to the end of today comic strip of not so comic events. have found out this evening that i may well be an INFP (meyers briggs) and confirmed my position as an observer in the noneagrames (or whatever they're called) and said a tentative goodbye to the texans that have made mine and bea's life so interesting, colourfull and fun over the past few weeks. already missing them and plotting their return for when the coffee shop opens sometime this year/ in the new year.

the end.