{"id":2187,"date":"2019-05-17T17:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravityisahat.com\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:12:36","slug":"piers-ashes-and-appendicitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/piers-ashes-and-appendicitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers, Ashes and Appendicitis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I feel\nguilty for not having written for so long. I wake up early and a niggling wave\nof failure makes my heart beat even more irregularly than usual. Not that\nanyone other than me is bothered but although I have dropped many things during\nthe course of my life writing this blog is not one I feel ready to drop.\nPutting aside childish ambitions to be an inventor or an astronaut or a diver\nor a vet, whilst an adult I have failed to maintain my music theory, piano\nplaying, bass playing, German language, Italian language, a million different\ncomputer languages, learning maths, philosophy, photography keeping up regular exercise,\neating fewer sweets, writing poetry, reading poetry and brushing the cats.\nThings I have kept up \u2013 watching telly \u2013 all the episodes of the Good Wife,\nGilmore Girls and Friends \u2013 shopping, particularly online and particularly\nprime \u2013 tee totalism (enforced through illness) and that\u2019s about it. I am not a\nfailure yet but I am a lazy git!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said I\nhave been quite busy. As my health is excellent my body and brain\u2019s reflex is\nto store brownie points by being a good boy at work. I have quite a bit of\nteaching and adminy things to do and I rather enjoy doing them. I have\ndiscovered that if I devote quite a bit of time devising systems to do things\nefficiently I actually enjoy the process of doing them more. I quite like\npuzzling out the optimum way of recording video feedback and distributing it in\na timely way to students. Yes it\u2019s true I am a bit of a nerd! \u201cIf a jobs worth\ndoing its worth doing well\u201d I hear the hordes of tiresome goody goodies holler \u2013\nand here I am hollering right alongside them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since my\nlast post Maria and I had a short holiday. Most importantly I discovered a very\npalatable alcohol free beer in Southwold but we also distributed my parents\nashes and my eldest got appendicitis. What a strange thing to do on both counts!\nNeedless to say however you do it you end up with a Clarks shoe load of parent\ndust and in this case, as the two events directly coincided, (ashes and appendicitis)\nan absolute shed load of anxiety. Poor eldest was extremely very horribly unwell\nand to be honest despite having my entire wonderful extended family doing the\ndust chucking I was just not in the mood, preoccupied as I was with the what then\nseemed a rational thought, that my dear lovely dead parents were reaping pestilence\non my current loved ones just because in 1971 I sold the gold sovereign they\nhad given me for an electric guitar. Anyway he is better phew!!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The younger\none has been in Senegal learning drumming. The experience was life changing in\na million different ways not all to do with drumming. He is a total Afrophile\nnow with the kind of wanderlust I used to pretend to have when I was his age. He\nis the real thing but actually my modest globe-trotting was never really a\npleasure \u2013 I didn\u2019t much care for going places, all scary and inconvenient, lucky\nreally cos I don\u2019t go anywhere now \u2013 ah that\u2019s not true on our recent holiday\nwe went to three piers, Southwold, Brighton and Deal. We met lovely family\nmembers and actually had time to talk properly. Most encounters with my\nextended family are big do\u2019s really busy and noisy and full, civilized enough\nbut not my thing. I much prefer slow socializing- aren\u2019t I dull. Piers thrill\nme \u2013 I honestly don\u2019t know why. I want to own one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might be\ninvolved in a fun project for the university, my first consultancy for five\nyears. I really fancy it because it\u2019s in Bridlington which is everything you\nimagine about a seaside town but dare not say in case you offend someone who\nlives there. I love it, love it, love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Matthew\nRead Trio are in the midst of an Arts Council funded tour so they are nipping\nround the country in my Volvo Estate. Catch them if you can they are great. I\nam forced to drive either Art\u2019s Clio with the dicky clutch or Matthews rather\ntoo nice Vauxhall. Anyway both vehicles have this thing you may have encountered\ncalled a manual gearbox. Who in their right mind would chose a car that has\nmore than 2 pedals \u2013 one to go and one to stop. Seriously though I now hate the\neffort involved in driving manual cars and look forward to becoming reacquainted\nwith my stately black petrol guzzling ocean liner. I believe she is back\ntonight with the trio- who play in Leeds on Sunday \u2013 be there or be square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love to\nall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel guilty for not having written for so long. I wake up early and a niggling wave of failure makes my heart beat even more irregularly than usual. Not that anyone other than me is bothered but although I have dropped many things during the course of my life writing this blog is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}