Sipho Hotstix Mabusa

8.4thirty-four

Shopping for tees at H&M with my lady before work. Learning to write Farsi. Moved to the seat by the window! Gentle, warm breeze - damn!

Homemade tagliatelle bolognese with salad after copious shopping at H&M and Uniqlo! New trousers yeah! Drum session with mics is turning out to be super restorative and fun! New songs!

French burkini ruling and police action.

Week all wrapped up! Brochure, emails and website all 99% done!

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

8.3thirty-three

The mystery has played out successfully!

Rohan is drawing to a natural close for now. South Africa performing well in the Olympics. SJ takes 4 games!! 5-4 at the end of a gruelling session that's left us both invalids.

In other news: Dinner out with Andrea, M and SJ at Jackson + Rye. Gin cocktails and a burger. Mandela started and almost finished in one go.

Work heating up!

8.2thirty-two

Catching up furiously on GoT. Mandela painting prepped, mystery just about ready to go! Trying to implement various ingenius solutions to problems around my room. Album cover holder done after Lego blocks arrived :) Trying to invent a simple device to skip tracks on a record with, and/or lift arm at end of record. Messy area in room finally cleared up!

Ukulele. Back at RZF for Perspectives booklet (and website!). City Index flaring up. Working in JSON.

Jen at Camden Fringe with Su and SJ; VICTOR! Friday night out with V, Rz and SJ in Clapham! Saturday morning lunch with Ams and Rz, then home after a long absence. Chiiiillll.

Mandela is looking good! Beef salad with Thai dressing more or less out of my head!

Cherry-picking

8.1thirty-one

Tif&Bri over from Oz to stay with SJ. Free 1 hour UI session with a senior in the field. Ams in London Bridge - with the PAINTING!! Gruelling session with John. Training to lift 1.5 times my body weight :-O Currently at 3/4. Start of the Olympics.

Lz&On over from Oz as well - meetup in LBG on Friday; drinks at the George all night with Cm and Shz. Slipped out to catch Carina Round at the Lexington.

Saturday Visions festival, attempting to get into Netil House for street food. Q too long, so went for indian. Anna Calvi, Lightning Bolt with Dave.

Sunday in Kingston with the girls at Patisserie Valerie, seeing them off at the X26, then shopping in Lakeland and Claus Ohlsen for amazing things.

All the projects

7.5thirty

Second week no work... :-O

So much projecting. Working furiously on the secret! Also my jewellery box, some ukulele practice, cooking skills, Ams' painting, ETC!

Ruan's birthday, animal collective is a hit! Sent off Ams' painting for printing! \0/

Added the 2016 playlist to WIDAD (could have sworn it was already up??)

Dancing dirty

7.4twenty-nine

Visiting Ams in LBG, lunch with SJ and work friends on the steps of the church by the BBC. Escape the room game in Finsbury park - aced it in 32 minutes! GWN pub quiz in Barbican with Jo&O and shaw - lovely people! DIRTY DANCING on Sunday was absolutely WONDERFUL. Kicked our ball about, took part in camp games, bought legendary BBC double LP, ate hotdogs despite having packed fajitas and a litre of G&T for lunch...! All dressed up, watching the show with a very interactive crowd :) Had a really lovely time.

SHOWTIME!

7.3twenty-eight

Carmen opera at The Blackheath Halls. Mel and Andrea come to watch on the first night, SJ and Su on the second night! Old lady's hip injury at half time... :( Third show percussion swap around with Andrew - swap back at half time after Nick reprimands us. Last performance is perfect.

Making friends in the office, lemon tree in the well! Birthdays!! Birthday breakfast with candles :) Meeting a new recruiter (Gemini), Finn's birthday!

Picnic in the Olympic park with Stacy & Simone, etc. The longest walk to get there! Custard milkshake afterwards in Westfield.

Bought the Leopold Stokowski conducting Bach: The Great Transcriptions with the LSO!