I originally heard of the song “Haunted” on this blog here. It’s a duet by Shane McGowan and Sinead O’Connor, and it’s simply a fantastic song. A beautiful voice combined with a gravelly old voice… it’s great! (Now I just need to buy the album.)
Check out the video for it here:
We’ve moved! Don’t worry, you don’t need to update your addressbooks for us. We just moved from the first-floor flat to the ground-floor flat. It seems a little unnecessary, but we now have access to a garden!
It was great to do it over a four day weekend (Friday and Monday are UK Bank Holidays, for our US friends). We managed to move virtually everything on Friday, spent Saturday organising stuff in the new flat, spent all day Sunday cleaning the old flat, and then spent today getting a few things at Ikea to finish getting the new flat set up.
By the end of this week we’ll be all set for summer BBQ’s at our new flat! We look forward to hosting you.
So this last weekend I was finally able to race in the Head of the River Race; only my second time in four years. (2007 was cancelled because of absolute s**t water conditions, and in 2006 I was diagnosed with a broken rib just a few days before the race.)
Considering that we only had a week to put our boat together, and had a grand total of three outings together as a final crew, I guess we didn’t do too badly. I think if we had a decided crew another week or two in advance we could have ironed out a few of our issues. C’est la vie!
Anyway, here are a few photos from my crew on the day.
For those of you who know what I’ve been up to recently, I can announce the first round of success! Happy days!
