Blog On The Motorway

Well, quite frankly I wouldn’t blame it. A surplus of ‘things happening to me’ has coincided with a general sense of ‘blimey I can’t be bothered’ to leave you, my dear reader, bereft of my musings and witticisms of late. I’m sure you’ve barely been able to sleep with worry.

So quite a bit has happened so I feel it’s only right and proper that I update you with every tedious aspect of my life in a series of short and meaningless bursts of information. So here we go.

1. I went to Download festival. It’s been a few years since my last festival, also Download, but the prospect of seeing Faith No More was too great to pass up, so Ellen and I teamed up with some friends and made the journey down. Faith No more were as immense and wonderful as I imagined, but i was also pleasantly surprised by both Korn and Limp Bizkit. I also met up with my old best friend Rich, who once challenged me to quote Wayne’s World every day for a month (surprisingly easy.) When he caught up with me he snuck up on me and pointed out the difference between the old Download venue and the new (they’ve moved to accommodate the formula 1 from next year) by saying; ‘Isn’t this weird? This is Download, only, this isn’t Download.’ I love Rich.

2. I also went to go and see Clutch 6 days later in Leeds. Clutch are a phenomenal band on record and are even better live. Anyone who enjoys whisky soaked american blues rock with genius lyrics should go check them out now. Also, as my second gig in a week with the lovely Ellen, I realised I am extremely lucky to be with someone who is so at ease at gigs, especially seeing as they were both for music was outside of her comfort zone. I doubt I would react so weel at a Morrisey gig, for instance.

3. I had root canal. This was not pleasant. Especially when the dentist took the weird soldering iron type implement (which she charmingly referred to as ‘the burner’) and missed my tooth completely, burning my top lip.

4. I had gastroenteritis. This too was deeply unpleasant, except this time over a longer period of time, and over a weekend as well. On the plus side managed to re-read the last Harry Potter book in three days and make my bed smell very strange. Every cloud…

5. I got in contact with an old friend. No sooner had I started reader Danny Wallace’s ‘Friends Like These’ about meeting up with old friends than I realised that my old best friend, Tom Savage, had started following me on Twitter. We exchanged pleasantries, and now I will be heading down to London town in August for a BBQ to catch up. Marvellous. Only downside seems to be that he appears to have done very well for himself, jet setting between London and San Fransisco and running what seems to be about a thousand companies. I on the other hand, have spent the last 15 or so years since we were friends cultivating a total lack of career and a bald spot. Not that I’m complaining in any way but it may be a little knock to the self-esteem if I end up spending the whole time in London hanging around with people who spend the equivalent of my yearly salary on bagels at their local delicatessen.

6. Rosie has chicken pox. Strangely enough, now that she’s covered in wierd boils and sulks even more than often, it somehow manages to make her even cuter.

So there you go. My life summed up in brief. Although reading that back, not so brief. And how are you?