Weekender 04

+ Courtney Pine at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea; see the mid-to-upper-middle-classes come out for a cultural event just so they can drop it into conversation the next time they have a dinner party. But fantastic set with great showmanship and foot-tapping, get-up-and-get-dancing performance otherwise.

+ And then there were the railworks between Robertsbridge and Hastings, i.e. no train from Battle (Welcome to 1066 Country!); driving through some serious countryside to get to Frant, where we dumped the car and got on a train back to London to see

+ The Doctors of Love at Filthy McNasty's; great music, but overcrowded by fashionista types with perfect hair and black wardrobes and skinny men in blazers (i think real fashion and magazine fashion might be slightly out of sync), but increased the count of my possessions by 2 proper gin glasses. hurray!

+ Further procrastination and paucity of work done; the coldness has set in and my brain refuses to thaw itself. resulting in lots of newspaper reading and thumbing through christmas catalogues for gifts i'll never give or receive.

+ With the winter looking like how it is, i'm not looking forward to anymore school; the holidays are so close and yet so far, with an essay and 2 reports to get through first. oh the obstacles to freedom! and the obstacles to curling up beside the radiator all day long, getting up only for hot chocolate and cake.