Pop shop Carmen!

5.5twenty-one

Washing the stars off my ceiling... Squash date night! Two games taken off me! I must get back into the league... maybe now that we're moving to Palace! Starting the song game with Nes on WhatsApp :-D Fajita / tacos at Esh's.

Cancelled Tidal subscription. Pooooossibly reconsidering NX Gate apartments. Getting addicted to minesweeper on iPhone. Serious memory lane as I rediscover Pop Shop vol 13 and 19. Yoga book for Nes's birthday arrives in Houtbay. Packing the first bits.

Em and Co visiting. House meetings and dens parties with the bitches. Blackheath kicks off with a cymbal crash!!!

EEEEEEAAAAAGLES

5.4twenty

Dad visiting Houtbay. Rzfsh for another day! Blood donation in London Bridge for Eat Play Mind's blood drive. Measuring up Alexandra Drive - getting excited now! Two viewings anyway as M is a little unsettled. Annerley comes close, but I feel it's too little too late (much further away from transport).

Ma birsday! Birthday morning wonderfulness with Esh! Cake and candles and presents! Coffee in bed! Records (Dire Straits, Doors, ABBA, Simon & Garfunkle, QOTSA), comics and a beautiful 3D book. Flowers! Breakfast at Dishoom, with vegan ice-cream afterwards and a bit of a walk through Central. Birthday perfume and a hamper from Nes. Mom and Nes dinner with Dad.

Nes birthday! Gardening :) Barber for a neaten (Chaplins of London, I say old chap). Hawker House Bamboo street feast with M, then off to see The Jungle Book. Starting the big clear-out for the move.

PALAAAAAAAAACE!!! In attendance at the FA Cup final in Wembley, Palace v Man U. Lost 2-1, but what a game! With Dan and fam, after coffee with B. Working together on Munnio.

New home

5.3nineteen

Quiter week at home, despite the Monday of 9 viewings. Concentrating on Crystal Palace now. Memory stick collected from Andrei at the music studio. Songs uploaded!

Offer made on Alexandra Drive! Wonderful chat with mom! Letting go of my garden on a universal scale. Ams' hair shaved off. Finn in a fistfight at school. Oupa using his haircut voucher. Nes' D&D figurines.

Chat about friends who don't know I exist. Turns out they do! More than I realised! \0/ E's birthday snub... :( Great PT session with John. Trying to organise measurements at Alexandra Drive amidst ongoing tenant reference checks and upheavals.

Meeting up with old work friend Ben Lamb, possibility of business in the future? Rzfsh for half a day, visiting Ams! Esh off work not feeling well :( Squash booked, but missed. Islington with SJ Sat morning, bakery, optician, banners, another bakery, second hand record store with birthday presents in it! Sunglasses for me! Missed the Blackheath kick-off due to excessive banner work (and a little procrastination and interruption from other things). Silly work choices in terms of prioritising work already in hand.

Recording, singing, making MUSIC

5.2eighteen

Band goes into recording studio to lay down tracks! Two days and a massive headache later, we have 4 songs down. Radiohead go offline, then release new single. Finishing the last wall in Esh's flat! Lovely walk to the voting station, then the travel chaos that ensues (lineside fire at Vauxhall). Singing Meatloaf in the car, Mrs Loud solo, followed by winner takes it all!

Regrettable decision to go into Tag - has several knock-on effects with timing issues. Sadiq Khan becomes the new mayor of London. Dinner with Cath and Su in Cocochan. Offer su to come and stay with Mel and myself for a bit. Viewing Alexandra drive! Closest we've been to an offer yet. Lunch in Crystal Palace triangle at the CP Market. Love the area...

Whimsical little Sound of Music mix...

Womanhood

5.1seventeen

Beyonce's perfect Lemonade storm. R is confirmed gay. The news about Beeeeeee! Viewings and disagreements. Hilly fields is wonderful. Working at Tag and doing Gain cap work. Band problems... trying out Esh's new gym.

Soaking up the nighttime, lying in bed with E staring up at the stars on my ceiling. Weekend with Esh, walking through the park after viewing place that was so close to right... not enough sunshine though. Dinner at IC&LC's in their new home. Prepping and painting the flat!!

Silly little start to mixing up Sound of Music - very excited to continue. Whimsical bet placed on the Palace FA Cup game :) 4/1 on a straight out win (90 mins play).