Thursday thoughts

Make your Sloppy Giuseppe sloppier still with a smearing of soft quark; compliments the passata. For another meal had smoked haddock chowder and paella; fishy. Want to make Vegemite and peanut butter chicken; stewy. Will be going to Sat Bains' restaurant; the Chefs Table. See artists in action.

Runners channel your inner Kipchoge #sub2

Bank Holiday rant

I'm forever championing women but people continue to be thick. I can't write in memo form because they will not understand it. In a fast moving world you have to account for those who only see literal. I have said everyone else understands it but they're not shouldering the blame. I say when I'm wrong. Competitive people can't take a joke. They try and engineer things towards themselves. Don't let people from the past distort your balance. I was taught that when writing give your audience a sense of mystique; is it dumbed down now? The spoon fed generation who will not have confidence.

Easter Sunday

Prayed for the Sri Lanka victims; seems to have mirrored New Zealand.

Junior Parkrun is a new project to run on Sundays which I'm getting involved in through marshalling. The kids write their own run reports; the style is unfettered, without the constrictions of later adult life.

Spent 6 hrs chilling in the garden yesterday, saw the donkeys, followed Palace besting Arsenal in a 97 min game. My neighbour has a trampoline so you see various bobbings over the fence.

Went to the gym after sunset; a nice time to run.

 Had the Captain's Kebab; chicken and lamb doner, chips, salad. Remains unfinished in fridge.

Does a supergroup have to have a stadium sound? You get tired just listening to it and unless you have the best vocals they will get lost in the sound; just rein it in.

Some friends don't like meeting in town but the same old place and no sense of adventure. It is not always logistically possible nor desirable to go out further especially if you've moved elsewhere. Outgrow; got to keep moving..new projects.

April fools; do it 12am-12pm. If friends prank each other that's fine but should companies be doing it? Everyone's a joker. If i make a joke it's to bring smiles, laughter..laughing with you. Others do it at your expense; laughing at you. That's different from banter and you know the context. Life can be difficult; humour is the vehicle, sometimes the more pain there is the more humour there is.

Doing the 800 mile annual round trip to Aberdeen. And I'm throwing in the curveball Dundee this time. Meet your loyal mates in new places; that's the interconnectivity of things.