a rare thing

i saw her perform her track You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go in what her website describes as a "sensational, and unprecedented live appearance on BBC flagship music programme Top of The Pops". i suppose my ears did register that she was different from all the other artists performing that day, but i guess those guys over at universal have got it sussed:

"She is that rare thing, an artist more interested in her music than in the glitz and glamour of showbusiness."

exploring the dark side...

to go with this:



we now have one of these:

he's got my vote...

even though i'm not entirely sure what he means about building houses and stuff.



go on, spread the word!

camping/form

pros:

• guaranteed fry-ups in the morning (that's all i can cook)
• mobility (let's try that piece of sloping ground of there...)
• the great outdoors (i.e. mrs hope is in a permanently good mood)
• the feeling of spontaneity (i.e. if it continues to chuck it down, we'll go home!)
• getting home

cons:

• no sleep (sleeping on the ground)
• no sleep (sleeping on sloping ground)
• no sleep (sleeping on sloping ground in a sleeping bag)
• no sleep ("next-door's" kids are scared of the dark)
• no sleep ("next-door" snores like an angle-grinder)
• british weather

mrs hope and i went to the gower last weekend, taking in the sights of rhossili bay on the sunday. there was hardly a patch of blue sky in sight, but we gamely walked the two and a bit miles to Llangennith into the teeth of a stiff westerly. mrs hope restrained herself admirably as only two shells were added to her enormous collection.

the day before was a wash-out; we took refuge from the elements in swansea, seeking out an aussie bar to watch the most recent instalment of the tri-nations.

not long now until mrs hope leaves her current employ (shameless plug for form), and only slightly longer until i take it up (another shameless plug for form/cack-handed attempt to push the website up seach engine rankings).