A relaxed blow on 3rd trombone last night. It's strange when you play a piece normally on lead, as your brain hears the note you should be playing..but on the 3rd part it's totally different. However 2 numbers from the end , I was passed a lead solo...from ledger line below.. to into the gods.Bike ride to my new favourite Victorian coffee emporium this morning. Cheap and cheerful coffee. Easy like Sunday Morning.
I have never been great at DIY. A 2 minute job can turn into 3 days and a visit to A and E. I blame my dad. He won't throw anything away. If it breaks, then he will bodge it. As per this Hoover I saw him using today. Talk about reconditioned! This should be condemned. But in his words ' it sucks really well' So following in my father's footsteps, I went to do a small job last night. All it involved was removing a screw and replacing a bulb in a security light that hasn't been used for years. 20 minutes and 2 screw drivers later, I managed to remove the rusted screw, with the help of 4 gallons of WD40. Old bulb fell to pieces in my hand....New one replaced. Screw back in. Switch on......then 140 houses in the area have a power cut. I kid you not....power was off for 3 hours as the men worked on the national grid to restore normality. Coincidence? I dare not switch the light on again.....Just in case !!!!
Its 26 months now since I had the hit and run accident. After one solicitor departed the company , my case was set back further. However the new girl has taken the case on and I finally had a settlement offer yesterday. I have never had a figure in mind. What price can you put on loss of earnings, possible loss of job...and more scarily....not being able to ever play again. I have always been embarrassed about money. In the past, when I have played for bands...and they say...how much do we owe you...I blush and say nothing. I don't these days...I say....how much do you normally pay? So when I saw the settlement figure from insurance people...I did what my solicitor and dear friends advised....rejected it. It was an amount that made all the pain and suffering...a joke !@@Not sure what happens next..but I have to consider my future...or lack of it. Life without music would be unbearably hard. I can only hope, that the exercises I am doing, will delay the process.
I was joined for toast and coffee by my new housemate this morning and cheese and biscuits for supper last night. Both so tame in such a short time. Took myself out for lunch and then returned to find a letter from my solicitor re my hit and run. The insurer's had made a paltry offer and they advised that I should reject it. I am asking a wide circle of friends before I make a decision. The injury will be life changing in the future...and although its never been about the money, it has made me question the cost of life.
Absolute full house at Band last night. The musicians were lifted with the electric atmosphere in the room and I have never heard them play better. Sad news today though. The founder of this band is very very poorly at the moment. We are all keeping our fingers crossed, but he is very tired after a long fight with illness. Its now a diminishing generation...and the awful thing is...we are now the next ones to enter that category!!!
Having an early coffee in Utoxeter. The cafes culinary certificates up to date, but not sure that Pat has been in to test the lectrics!!!! Might make it take away......have left a few business cards just in case.
I took a visit to a renowned haunted house today. In the daylight...not so spooky. But at night , I should imagine, an instant cure for constipation!!. I asked myself the question...how much money would it take, for me, to spend a whole night alone there. No mobile phone and only a torch. I have to then ask myself a question....do I believe in ghosts. Although working with the dead for the last 19 years...nothing has ever happened...even when alone in a mortuary with numerous bodies. But a haunted house....hmmmm...I think it would have to be a 6 figure sum ...and numerous change of pants before I even considered it. At the very least...my hair wouldn't turn white!!!
