Good Things For Today

.. as I seem to be a bit bla..

The new Zero 7 album is a real return to form - after their glorious debut was immediately swallowed whole by every dinner party in North London, the second album was a weak attentuated revamp and I thought "ah, another two album Portishead wonder". But The Garden is a different thing entirely - still mellow, yeh, buit it has this weird pseudo 70s slightly sampled hippy-pschedelic/Beach Boys/Joni Mitchell/ELO synth-ish thing going on - I'm pretty sure that's a sample from Woodstock on the first track and the title is a riff on "and we all have to get back to the garden". Very refreshing stuff to do annoying chapter corrections to :-)

I also bought a(nother) 2nd hand Marion Keyes chicklit cheap in Oxfam at lunchtime. And FISH (not in Oxfam). And *not* chocolate.

The cherry blossom is starting to lie on the ground in pixellated puddles of pink.

I'm reassured to see that even the ever-ebullient easterbunny occasionally gets the blues. (That probably didn't come out right..)

Fiona Apple also has a new album out. Must get.

Probably going to Plokta Pi.

A nice Southampton person has offered to store rollerblades for me till I get there, that are in my size and only £5. And I might get to meet nmg as he's coming up for WWW06. (But my panel for WWW0 6 never DID happen. Pah, what waste of time. And I suspect the organisers hate me now.) And ortho_bob reassured me I wasn't being phished.

I finished most the substantive work on the Family Law 2nd edn book yesterday. I like what I've done to the chapter on juvenile justice, I think. (But that means I now have to tidy up all the fiddly corrections I hate. Blaaa.)

Er that's about it?