Busy old day.

On Saturday it was a very busy day indeed.

My mate, Ken, gave me a lift to get the Landrover back from James Tennat's after a hefty service. It was going to be an early start because as well as the Landrover, we needed to get some wood for Ken's building projects, and all before they closed at lunch. The weather was looking a bit cloudy and a lot colder than I expected. Getting off the ship in Norway it was cold, but here it felt a lot worse.

Nearly 600 quid for the service. Still it means I don't have to worry about it and I can just get out there enjoying it.

We got back with the wood just before lunch. After dropping it off at Lower Oreston we picked up Jane and Maison and went off to the hideaway for lunch. I had been looking forward to a cooked breakfast ever since leaving fro Spain. Taking this into account I went for a #4. Lovely.

During lunch, everybody was taking the piss over my new promotion. Yes chief, certainly chief....Grrr!

Maison suggested we go sailing in the Hawk after lunch. I was a little dubious as it was already after 1300hrs and I wanted to be back in plenty of time for the Australian Pink Floyd Show in the evening. He finally convinced me to go for it.

Had a bit of an issue finding the boat keys and I had even tried calling Lerigo to see if I'd left them with him. Eventually I had to resort to taking the spare set instead. I hadn't got all my thermals as I'd left some of them onboard the vessel. Still it was only for the afternoon. When we got down to the boat I couldn't find a spare key for the wheel clamp. Bugger, THAT was the key I left with Lerigo in case he needed to move the boat. Maison had already started to remove the cover. Oh well I thought, that's the end of that plan then. As I was preparing to get on back home I looked under the cover to see what sort of state the boat would be in after 5 weeks away.

Oh look, over there on the opposite gunwale.... the bloody keys.

Very surprised they were there after 5 weeks. Launching was a lot easier with two people certainly. It was a bit chilly but the wind was great. Maison did all the actual sailing while I did some small maintenance bits with ropes etc. Maison was making suggestions all the while about how to improve the handling and performance of the hawk. Some of them I'll take onboard.

We didn't get too far as we needed to be back for my concert. I also needed to get some supplies in as I hadn't even got any bread and milk in yet. Jane and Maison were also going to the Selwyn's for takeaway dinner. After putting the boat away I headed to the supermarket for the basics. Just before leaving there I called for a taxi to the pavililions in 30mins time. It would mean that I wouldn't have any more time other than for a quick change, a quick sandwich etc. Sure enough the taxi was early but I was ready, if quite tired.

I made it to the concert in time to get 1 pint of Guinness to go with my apple. At least I'd get some calories from that.

The amount of promotional material, such as T-shirts, mugs, key-rings etc., at the door was actually quite pathetic. Not cheap either. £22 for a t-shirt and I only had a choice of 1!

The actual concert more than made up for it. It started at 2000hrs and I didn't leave until about 2245hrs. One thing that did annoy me was the people who were late coming in. It distracted a bit from the show. Luckily I didn't have too many near me.

Last year they did the whole of 'The Wall', but this time they chose to do a selection of songs from various albums. Before the interval the projection showed Bruce in his bedroom listening to music and then getting up to choose an album from his collection. The cover shown indicated the album from which the next few songs would come. There were quite a few I'd not heard before. Oh by the way Bruce is the cartoon kangaroo that the 'Australian Pink Floyd Show' use. After the interval Bruce took out a walkman with a cassette titled 'Floyd Mix'.

Part of the encore is posted here...