This is our last autumn in Ash Street. We’ve lived here since 2007. Without any plan in that regard we’ve both lived here longer than either of us has ever lived anywhere else. We’ll miss wonderful neighbours but it’ll be good to be moving… a full 3 or 4 blocks away.
Snapshot of this old girl - finally gig-ready 35 years later. It’s still got the ridiculously low frets, but I’ve changed everything else - pickups, tailpiece, tuners, bridge, knobs, control pots. Nothing I can do about the 5.2kg in weight except wear a wide, fat strap. Amazingly it’s “weight-relieved,” and easily weighs a kilo more than my all-solid Tokai LP.
Meanwhile in the chest-of-drawers…
Colours and contrasts in the early morning shop run. The XE1 is small enough to take anywhere with me. That’s a HUGE advantage over modern SLRs.
This handsome boy has rediscovered his tower.
Why do Capetonians think that any ‘fancy’ performance deserves an automatic standing ovation when at popular music shows they’re too cool to even clap? 🤔 We went to Handel’s Messiah last night which is I guess an Easter tradition? Certainly these two atheists spent more of Easter Sunday thinking about the life and death of Christ than most people do. Also I got to dress up for the second time in a weekend. I reckon I was one of 4 audience members in a tie. ...
Also we got to meet Lorna @goflow42’s. Just a day that makes it worth getting out of bed. . Also I think I’m starting to get the hang of this camera. It may look like a film camera, but it has a million options that need to be born in mind. Gonna take a bit of time to always have it dialled in.
T was full of high sugar energy while her dad was nearly comatose from lunch and a series of back-to-back trips across our continent. . Needless to say, he’s not been practising bass…
The chatelaine at her embroidery. @goflow42 gets medieval post huge lunch.
This boy and I had a great conversation about Dungeons and Dragons. He’s been running a game for his mates for a while - something I still lack the confidence to do.