I was determined I wouldn’t leave it as much as a week between updates. And I’ve succeeded, though not in the style I’d planned. The hope was to write some summary of my response to Richard Holloway’s _Dancing on the Edge_ which I finished last weekend. Or perhaps some review of last night’s Airstar show in Oxford which goes further than saying ‘it was good’. Suffice it to say that time hasn’t allowed for either of those as yet.
What it has allowed for is a whole lot of work on the last of the three ICC websites I’ve been working on. ICC Spreading The Word is coming together well and proving a good exercise to build up my javascript reflexes. The alternative database front-end for the whole lot should hopefully follow in the next couple of days so that everything can be signed off by next weekend.
It’s also allowed for a delicatessen which, though down on numbers, could certainly be termed a success thanks to the quality of the music involved. All three acts were splendid, and I’d love to have any of them back again as headliners so long as we could guarantee the audience. Maybe with the progression of names (Boo Hewerdine, Iain Archer, Peter Case) coming up we’ll get the mailing list to the point where that is possible.
Reading has been limited but still slotted in. Ian McEwan’s “Enduring Love” is providing much food for thought and broadening a few perspectives as I continue planning my overly-ambitious dissertation. Thanks are due to Andy Tate for the recommendation.
I would mention Aaron and Nniffer’s blog but they have yet to put much up there so it’s probably not worth it as yet.