Easter is always a busy time in the UK and is treated much the same as the Christmas break – this is due to a guaranteed 4 day weekend which in turn means you get 4 day weeks either side. A 4 day week is supposed to be easier but with lots of people off it still proved to be as busy as ever.
Cannot complain though as Richard and I kicked off out weekend with a trip to the Royal Albert Hall to see Tangerine Dream.
Now I cannot confess to being a fan or even being able to tell you a great deal about this ageing German sync outfit but what I can say is that you can never guarantee what they will do on stage and this show was no exception. The opening Cellists and Pianist were brilliant until the head of “TG” came on stage, kissed the pianists neck and proceeded to strike the innards of the grand piano with a bull whip! I kid you not.
Still Richard really enjoyed the show which was the main thing and we did manage to get 3 hours worth of music from them so we got our moneys worth.
It felt very civilised to spend our Thursday evening at the Royal Albert Hall sipping G&T’s.
It was actually a very welcome release especially after the stress of delivering my painting to the Royal Academy on Tuesday!
The drunkards train home was intersting and annoying – I was cruised by some camp guy who had a thing for sucking on his pen whilst texting. This was counter balanced with the annoying early 20 year old shouting down his phone about how fabulous his life was and how his friends needed to learn from him (I think his friends should leave well alone!)
Good Friday was very leisurely for us – we did only arrive home in the wee hours of the morning therefore we had a well deserved lay in. That said even though we didn’t do much yesterday the time flew by.
I played around with my Tumblr Blog yesterday, having really got into it. I love the theme I have on the site now and am constantly impressed as to how easy it is to post anything, and how great it looks on site.
Tumblr is much more than Twitter can offer and much more relaxed and flexible than Facebook (which I now hate more and more).
It’s great to find new people and content and share this quickly on Tumblr therefore I decided to put dedicated external links to it and to this blog via Trunk Guy
I had a chat with one of my friends in the USA yesterday and he’s coming over to the UK in June. We have booked a two day trip to Paris as he hasn’t been before. It’ll be great to take him as we know Paris quite well and it’ll be nice to get a fresh perspective on such a great city.
Paris is one of a couple trips we have booked this year. We’re off to the apartment in Spain for our annual week of shut down in April. We are also going in August but this will be less relaxing as it involves a great deal of Richards family being in attendance (have to be on our best behaviour!). September sees us take a weekend breaks with friends in Shrewsbury – it’s a part of the UK we know little about so we thought we’d pay a visit and have booked a period cottage to help us relax that weekend.
So it’s Saturday and the weather report has improved so we’re busy getting ready to go out (well I am laid on the bed in my undies typing this waiting for Richard to get out of the shower!). I think we’ll find a new National Trust property to browse today – maybe somewhere near Northamptonshire for a change (I think we have exhausted our favourites). I just hope the place we end up isn’t over run with families and Easter Egg Hunts!
Whatever you’re up to this weekend have a great time and don’t eat too much chocolate.
Keith Tomlinson Photography 