at lunchtime, with a friend – the longest I’ve done since the accident – just over 4km!! I tested out the My Tracks application on my phone too – very cool! Showed where we’d been, how far it was, how long, how fast we walked – all sorts of things!
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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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So now I have a short list of two books to have a look at: The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis by Jane Clendinning, and Stephan Kostka’s book on harmony which sounds more like a traditional harmony text. Very excited to be getting this project underway!
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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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Nigella Lawson spiced turkey (fabulous recipe) with allspice gravy, roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic, River Cottage Brussels sprouts done in garlic butter (very fine but perhaps not the best match with the spiced turkey – I think the Nigella pecan sprouts might have worked better in context), Nigella soy and sweet chilli chipolatas, followed by ris a l’amande with hot cherry sauce and the chocolate chip and cranberry biscuits I made yesterday. We also made an awesome mulled wine and a fantastic non-alcoholic drink called a Xmas Xinger, containing pomegranate juice and ginger ale (both from Nigella’s Christmas – yes, it was very much a Nigella year – I did get the book for last Christmas!). Guests seemed to be happily stuffed by the end of it, so a good result all round.
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then coffee with another friend. Good conversation, and nice to be out and about on such a glorious autumnal day. Now at home and snugging in – just watched The Thin Man. Not sure what’s next.
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A friend arranged for a bunch of us to go on a Vinopolis wine-tasting tour for her birthday. V interesting and loads of fun. The star wine of the night I think was probably the Cretan wine – “Red on Black”. Lovely stuff. Djeli’s madeira sure gave it a run for its money though!
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Helped Djeli out with his trying to fathom the mysteries of web dev (as opposed to proper programme dev). I think he’s making progress so hopefully I’ve been a bit useful.
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