Echoes of Flavio's Ghost Dreaming

Busy week-end included the last ever Invocation at the Minories (which was a blast) and drinks at peeps' before it, a BBQ at the Highgate Zoo before that (not a real zoo, that's what these friends call their garden flat with their three cats, six or so rabbits and indeterminate number of humans), before that another birthday in Greenwich for dj_alexander (wait, that's over on the other side; he's alexander_uk here), before that the Gothsluts meet at some pub near Kings X (which was hard work, having to climb five floors to get to the public terrace that was the only available space, plus having to go down to the bar on ground level every time you wanted to order drinks). All good but I think I need, in the time-honoured phrase, a holiday to recover from the holiday.

As a consequence of that, today was a loong guitar teaching day at the school in Watford. Getting up at 5:15 am instead of 10:00 am is damaging for my delicate (ahem) constitution. Not quite as bad as the news today, mind. Wonder whether I may have to find myself a new country, not just a new blogging platform.

It still is the Easter long week-end for me, as I didn't have to get up before dawn to go to school. Liking it, could get used to it.

The week-end brought a few social things; on Thursday it was the celebration of hollyp's British citizenship. There'll be pictures of that. Friday was relatively quiet; I met kekhmet and augeas for the former's birthday drinks -a nice walk down the South Bank (I just missed the visit to the Tate Modern) and lovely cocktails in Opium in Chinatown. On Saturday there was the wedding of dwagon and ashmere, which was a blast; on Sunday there were four or five things, I managed to attend three: the gig at the Fiddlers' Arms with In Isolation and The Faces of Sarah (but missed the first band, and, worse, djpsyche's singing with the band, as I had already left by then, off to Red's birthday at the North Nineteen. Then I headed with dj_alexander to the Minories for Invocation, which was excellent. Monday was more sedate apart from bibliogoth's April meeting, discussing Terry Pratchett's 'Soul Music'. This was the more people I've seen attending a Bibliogoth meeting and it was a lovely occasion, a little memorial and celebration of Terry Pratchett.

Today, pretty much nothing in my diary apart from a lesson late in the evening. I do have things to do but can take my time (this is a sure way of not getting anything done, mind...)

Was very good *

Maybe longer account of the weekend later. For now, just some pictures from
- madbird's birthday party at Highbury Massive HQ
and
- The Clissold Park Easter Monday Picnic, attended by a stellar cast of thousands lots of people.

Both, but esp. the latter, much reduced sets, as I took too many photos:P. Captions to follow at some point.

The Flying Targ!

* at least up to the moment when I came back home