Showing posts with label M6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M6. Show all posts

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Motorway Madness

The shagging motorway was shut between Shap and Tebay. The plod direct us off, give us a single diversion sign and then a modern version of the old follow the hippy plan in Hammersmith to find the gig. The updated version involves following the truck in front. The usual result happens, it's an interesting diverion, we get lost, the truck in front gets stuck in a narrow lane and we turn around and sneak through the back entrance to Tebay services. Stop for a pee and to ask what the hell is happening. I pick a junior chuckle brother who's response is to giggle. We decide to risk returning to the motorway and it's car free for the first ten miles or so, its very eerie. Odd and I don't exploit it.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Jack Kerouac is Out in the Back

Leave Fade at 10:00 'cos I don't want to be late up Norf. Carlisle gig is fun (another RSS/Blogging gig for Shan), nice folk with a good buzz of ideas about how to exploit the stuff I point them in the direction of. Blinklist seems to go down well. Nice venue, any health service gaff with a view of bullocks can't be bad. Dunno why we don't have more meetings up this far, it's only a coupla hours up the road. Cool beginnings of a team blog up here too (Library and Web Services). Drive up is a little rain bound but I listen to 'Tommy' loud and proud and the views are good, way back and Yo La Tengo are on the job. Even see some sun.

Home and greeted by a hungry cat, she ain't alone as I feed myself too. Couple of glasses of red, little bit of work, bit of shite TV. Chat to Kitty who tells me news of ill health in Scotland (Sharon's Aunt Margaret). Text Monst with the latest. Recieve news from Delhi, they've scooted round New Delhi today. Cal has kipped and that's as much as I know. Lots of pics promised though!