Monkeying around - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

The monkey I introduced into Cash and Burn made its first appearance in Broadcast

Became Facebook friends with Roddy Doyle

First meeting at Cafe Kick, Shoreditch with Steven the Wasted man

Lisa Hannigan at Shepherd's Bush Empire 30/11/11

Passenger tour

Passenger
1 Home (Burned your letters)
2 Venn Diagram (your life?)
3 Ocean and a Rock
Lille? - [What'll I Do] ((Eh oh??)) [checked to here]
4 O Sleep - with John Smith
A Sail
5 Little Bird
6 Nowhere to Go ((Never))
7 Paper House
8 Pistachio - [Knots?] ((I???))
9 Teeth (You???)
10 I Don't Know (back in bottle)
What I'll Do
+++
{unknown}
11 Safe Travels
12 Knots

With Nigel

Sinead O'Connor at St. John's at Hackney church 27/11/11

1 Come Closer to Me (?)
2 Baby
3 Emperor's New Clothes
4 (North African)
5 Wolf
6 Someone Like Me (?) *
7 Stretched on grave
8 Ball/Animal
9 (Pink Dress)
10 Out of Africa(?) reggae
11 Nothing Compares to You
12 The Last Day
+++
13 VIP
14 Old Lady
15 monk's prayer

with Adie Dunbar
Early outing for Feb2012 album

Quotation on child/adult

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

I've always felt like this, even more after having children.

The Cure

Reflections
Albert Hall
15/11/11

3 Imaginary Boys:

10:15 on a Saturday Night
Fire in Cairo
3 Imaginary Boys
***

17 Seconds:
A Forest
17 Seconds
***

Faith:*
Primary
Other Voices
All Cats Are Grey*
Faith *
***
encore

1 World War
2 ?
3 Plastic Passion
4 Boys Don't Cry
5 Killing an Arab
6 ?
***
7 Dissent
8 Spinter in Head
9 Charlotte Sometimes
10 Hanging Gardens
***
11 Let's Go to Bed
12 Japanese
13 Love Cats

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Smiling at Michael Johnson, holder of the 400m world record - and watching him from the front row of an audience with him at work

Bedtime reading with D

Listening to songs from Grace and Danger (while reading about them)

Starspots #288

16/11/11
Ken Clarke MP
by The Speaker's House

16/11/11
the Queen (almost)
at Westminster Abbey for St James's Bible anniversary

15/11/11
Alan Johnson MP
Strutton Ground

14/11/11
Michael Johnson
C4 caff

14/11/11
Russell Grant
Gym Box, Shepherds Bush

12/11/11
David Baddiel
Wembley (England vs Spain)

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

On the cobbles (Strutton Ground) reading about John Martyn with a coffee and pain au chocolat

Revisiting 1979 with The Cure at the Albert Hall playing their first three albums

Getting SexTips4Girls.com through the system

Creative Accounting #612

Of Mice and Men (1937) = Frankenstein (1931) + Westward Ho (1935)

Day-before-yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Jog along the Liffey beyond Four Courts, catching late autumn sun

Porridge at Queen of Tarts

Walk around Rathescar lake, Co. Louth - found by chance. I fixed the dodgy sign at the nearest crossroads after.

Carlingford - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Family gathering at Bernadette's including first meeting with the delightful Aoife and chucking a ball/lads' talk out front with Des and the Enfants Terribles

Jog from pier to pier (cancelled out by breakfast at Dan's)

Coffee and chat over at Pierre McDonagh's in Greenore

Dublin - Day-before-yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Walk along Clontarf river-front with Bernadette (including Hot Press photographer's [Nixon] and posh food - best cappy I've had in Ireland)

Down to the Liffey by the Winding Stair in the low autumnal sun

Dinner with Orla and Meabh in Temple Bar

Little Jerusalem - Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Finding Leopold Bloom's birthplace, Chaim Herzog's family home and hanging out in Little Jerusalem (Dublin 8)

Getting into the Irish-Jewish Museum by chance (thanks to Howard) in the heart of that bit of Dublin I'd want to live in - red brick, tree-lined streets, suburban tranquillity

Fresh Italian lunch at the Bernard Shaw, home of Dublin graffiti

Leopold Bloom's birthplace

52, Upper Clanbrassil Street, Dublin 8

Back in the Old Country - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Buying a mag for hols (all about David Bowie)

Having a laugh with the Enfants Terribles in McKevitt's after dinner

Being in Joe McKevitt's house on the 10th anniversary of his death

Friday's Happiness Experiment entry

Doing admin on the Brighton train on the way to creative meeting at Ricochet

Picking up some old green Penguins, a record recycled as a dish and other bits and pieces in the North Laines

Watching the original Arthur en famille

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Catching low autumn rays on a Kenwood slope with U

Reading Robert Harris' The Fear Index in bed in the afternoon

Hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit by Paul Anka played by Chewy in Stokey Record Club with U, Sara, Wayne and Ben

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Playing Secret & Obvious with D at Ed's Diner after Tintin screening

Approaching Wembley in low autumn sun with the Enfants Terribles for Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Chicago Bears NFL game

Listening to Word podcast about Bowie on an afternoon jog

Creative Accounting #433

On The Waterfront (1954) = A View from the Bridge (1955) + 0.3 X West Side Story

Starspot #212

David Morrissey reading Waugh's A Handful of Dust yesterday afternoon coming home on the Northern Line