Last night, heard Narration and Our Lost Infantry in a church basement in Richmond. It was Narration I'd gone to see - have never actually heard them live despite meeting them in the Marlborough in mid-2007. Got talking to a young woman who seems to be following Narration's gigs - she'd got to the Half Moon Putney one last night just too late. Her relation to Narration :: mine to the Silver Wizard Project? In which case her Pink Floyd is Oasis, she is much into them as well. Both bands good, OLI perhaps more unusual (was that a guitar or a ukulele? I though the keyboard player was going to sprout a theremin, and yes they do have a violinist (female)).

The basement itself - called the Basement Door - is a curious place more like a large front room, though I was told small venues like that are quite common in the US. Not so here, where it tends to be pubs, and here there was no alcohol on sale at all though you could get tea and coffee (not sure if this limited the audience; it was fairly well attended though not packed). I do not mind the lack of booze in the slightest, even at the Grey Horse I'm quite likely to sip a soft drink instead of beer, after all I've paid £5 or so to get in. No repeat of Pickwick's in Chiswick where I was once told off by the owner for not drinking enough. But if that is their issue why not ask people if they want a refill? Rather than letting it happen and then complaining about afterwards. Anyway I might see my Narration fan pal again if I turn up to the next one.

If I'd known about the Putney gig I might have been there instead, instead of wandering around Chiswick having convinced myself that I do not want to move back to W.14, thank you.
The path by the summerhouse is done apart from the slabs needing to be levelled a bit.

Next week I should hear about the OFWAT job, though I think the common problem with all these webmaster jobs I'm going for is that I've just done Intranet for years, no external-facing website.

Shortly I shall get on the Brompton and whiz off to Homebase.

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