Met up with a friend in Notting Hill for the Grand National and a meal (it started out as being supposed to be brunch, but can it really be brunch at 5pm?) – we wandered around a bit and ended up playing Uno in a gelato shop. Totally revitalising 
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with a friend who lives in Paris – lovely random chat. Haven’t done anything like that in ages. Rest of the day was similarly relaxed – slept in, listened to music (Ravel, Faure, Elgar, etc), made big progress on djelibeybi’s hat (very nearly up to the crown shaping), made mushroom soup. And at the end of it am very nearly feeling human again. Shame I don’t have another day off – feeling very close to capable of writing some music, but I think it’d take another sleep to actually get there… when of course I’ll have to go back to work. *sigh*
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at the King’s Place Festival – what a great event! Cheap, plentiful, good quality music, with plenty of places to slob about and catch up with friends and listen to free performances. I’ll definitely try to take more advantage of it if they do one again next year. Met up with a friend and chatted for hours. Saw the current exhibition at the gallery too.
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The animator sent me the latest cuts of the film and we had a great chat about where it’s heading – really fired up about it!
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Went back to the Tate Britain and took djelibeybi along this time to have a better look at the Rothko/Turner exhibition – it really is extraordinary when you look at the Rothkos from his recommended viewing distance of 18 inches! Then met up with pocketsteve and we wandered across the river for drinks, then had a pub dinner with a vast amount of marvellous conversation and exploration of brand-new iPhones. A fabulous time was had.
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Finally got to see the Rothko exhibition, which I loved but Simone seemed a little underwhelmed by it. Then we went and had a look at the Cildo Mereiles, which she loved but I wasn’t that taken with it. Some nice bits, but not really my sort of thing. Had a stunning peppermint tea in the members’ room – I think I need to get a tea-strainer so I can make peppermint tea with proper loose-leaf peppermint leaves. SO much nicer than the bagged stuff.
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It’s been a while since I’ve talked to her and just the chatting over IM made me realise how much in my life seems to be spiralling totally out of control at the moment. Makes me wonder whether perhaps the blocks I’m experiencing aren’t a defence mechanism to keep control of something, even if it’s something that I kind of do want to be a bit out of control. Will think some more about that. Maybe if I can make myself clear the tax and overdue work out of the way, then things will feel a bit more manageable. It’s a good place to start anyway
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who may be interested in performing one of my pieces someday. And he’s a nice guy anyway, and it never hurts to encourage communication with friendly creative types. I’ve been meaning to write this email for about two months now, so it’s good to have it done.
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This evening I attended the end part (got myself in a muddle in the early part of the evening) of the spnm’s online composition workshop with composer Joe Cutler. Unfortunately, my submitted piece arrived too late to be one of the pieces under discussion, but it was interesting reading the comments posted along the way, and I managed to drop a question in there too.
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Had an excellent conversation with a co-worker who it turned out used to be a good pianist and almost went to music school – he’s really keen to hear my music and we had a great conversation, chatting about this and that about music and Australia. All very encouraging – it’s always nice to have people be so enthusiastic about hearing my work, and especially when they do know about music rather than just being randomly positive (although that’s nice too, of course!)
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