Terry Barnes

Four month wedding anniversary today 🙂 It still feels like we're on some kind of amazing extended honeymoon.

Agreed…..

My eldest is 19 today. Yikes.

Brighton-ish to Hull and back in a day tomorrow. Doing a couple of job interviews and they're better done in person. My kindle is charging for the 10 hours I shall be on a train.

Duke Special!

While we're at it, might as well share Tom Baker's perennial masterpiece.

A sudden flurry of gigs and things incoming again! I interrupt my journey home from Hull tonight to see Arab Strap, then Duke Special on Sunday, Belle and Sebastian playing 'Sinister' and Izzard doing Hamlet, both at the De La Warr in December. Exciting!

My colleague is buying my lease car so I've just driven from Brighton-ish to Hull. That was looong.

Finished octordle extreme with two guesses left, got a paye refund from paying too much tax last year and off to Cardiff to see Heaven17 tonight. Today has started well 🙂

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Having a bath and a read via our witchcraft based self-filling bath.

The last team I managed used to call me Ted Lasso. I hadn't seen the show at the time. I have now. I'll take that as a win. And I can see why they called me the name - I try to be gentle, patient, supportive and on a good day, insightful. I'm actually kind of touched.

Becky is away with her friends tonight so I am abandoning my Simba mattress for a campbed in child 2's temporary room so we can chat and catch up on general life stuff. Hoping to hear about planning permission to convert the garage for him shortly.

Also listening to this which made a wonderful appearance in the last few minutes of the latest episode of Slow Horses. It gave me goosebumps. Like an edgier Hurts.

Out for dinner with Team Barnes on what would have been Maria's birthday. And is Phil Oakey's. They've all done so well and come so far. I am full of pride for them.

Never join a Friday catch up call late with the jovial, Friday afternoon type phrase 'what's up bitches?' before checking to see if only your female colleagues have joined.

Off to Hull tonight. I'm tired before I start the journey. But my Kindle is charged.

They played the song we had our first dance to at our wedding

Death Cab For Cutie!

Whoop!

We were invited to a Halloween fancy dress party that was then cancelled not sure what I will do now with my fake pearl necklace, kitten heels, long red gloves and green dress. Handy for job interviews I suppose.

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

This never fails to move me. Alison and Vince invent house music in 1982 and it takes everyone else another 6 years to catch up. youtu.be/nhQWt8GVQfM?...

Becky has 4 of her old school friends over. I have retired to the bedroom to read so that they can cackle and talk about whatever it is they talk about. All is good in the world. I can hear the occasional shriek.

Today is a free electricity day, so immersion heater is on for hot water and we're charging both the cars. Might smelt some aluminium later.

Losing it at this

Is it something to do with getting older, or do hand-driers in toilets with the proximity sensors just not work anymore?

Find someone who loves you like the setters of word puzzles love the word caulk.