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Lockdown Diary - Monday 10th May 2021

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Back to Mondays being special again: I had planned to meet a friend for lunch, but they bailed so it's been a bitty day of chores and planning. Went to the local shopping centre to pick up some recycling bags from the library and took this as an opportunity to grab some shopping and a coffee. Usual rubbish, usual disconnects. Letter, and associated, writing, no doubt to little or no effect other than just to keep communicating, but with little justification. It looks like the shower is still leaking post complete re-seal, and I fear there may only be one solution - a completely new shower, tiles enclosure and all. I had a chat with my younger sister this afternoon, which was good, though it was a mutual commiseration session mostly.  It seems we both have a tendency to make the same mistakes, guess it must be an upbringing thing.  Parenting casts a long shadow? Something better change. I'm still pondering what this blog's gonna be called, post-lockdown? At the moment I'...

Behind me I can hear A click of fantasy heels, But there is no one there

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[Saturday 1st December 2018] [Strobe Warning - Have to say this ahead of anything else.]  Slow burning new discovery of 2018, Goat Girl: BBC Music's Jools Holland page describe them as "Brixton Punks" in their YouTube video for 'The Man', oddly. Maybe from a kind of basic sound sense there is a punky element, but I hadn't figured them as punks in any other way. Ultimately the label means nothing, I just like them and their album, from which this comes. Clutching at straws with some degree of positive vibes after the silence of Tuesday to Friday. False hope, most likely. [Quote is from the poem 'Hush' by Douglas Dunn from his collection 'Elegies']