I came across this ten-year-old mix by Time Is Away on NTS this week, half of whose similar tracks I’d heard before, and I’d wanted to hear them together somehow:
If I’m in London before it ends I’d like to have a look at their Department of Euterpe exhibition at the Warburg Institute.
§ This week was focused on yesterday’s 80th birthday party for Mary’s step-mother, 70 guests for lunch, with catering, a marquee, and a bouncy castle for Generation Alpha.
We had to retrieve a bunch of things – chairs, signage – from the much-neglected shed which turned into a complete emptying-out-cleaning-and-restocking of the place, including earmarking a pile of decades-old things for the tip.
The marquee arrived on Thursday, and I thought I’d be surprised with how quickly these things get put up by professionals. But, no, understandably it took four or five guys several hours to construct in the high-20s sun.
In contrast it took only minutes for a very surly 16-year-old to put up the bouncy castle.
Clearly, everything should be inflatable.
A lot more setting up preceded the afternoon event, and then lots of putting everything back to normal afterwards.
It would be nice to be someone who relishes opening his home to friends and strangers, putting them at ease, connecting people, flitting lightly around making conversation. It seems like the kind of person one should aspire to be, the opposite being bad. Like being someone who gets up at the crack of dawn to do some writing, compared to someone who gets up late, who will appear lazy or antisocial, no matter how productive they might be into the night.
Anyway, as nice as that would be, to be a comfortable host, it is definitely not me. I spent much of the afternoon hiding away from all these people at our home, rather than have to make small talk. But a good time was had by everyone else.
§ We finished watching The Pitt season two this week, which continued to be very good. It didn’t seem quite as good as season one, although some of that could just be familiarity with the format now. Although about ¾ of the way through it felt like it didn’t have as much of an overall arc holding it together – it was more like just going from one event to another, everything pretty similar in scale and pace. Still, great stuff all the same.
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