Looks like Cropredy 2005's definitely on, then.

There's an announcement to that effect on Fairport's website.

In other news . . . things are much as before, but my friends seem to be conspiring to keep me busy, which is keeping my mind off things most of the time. Neon was quite fun last night, although I think I probably owe a lot of people an apology for the Whitehouse, which was significantly harsher than what they were expecting. OTOH, a bloke called Dave asked for Green and Grey, and got it. Well, actually he asked for Sex-the Black Angel, but I bargained him upwards. It never gets played at clubs. People didn't seem to mind. He even managed to extract his original request from the next DJ too.

Arafat.

What with Chairman Arafat's current poor health, there's been a lot of talk about his rôle in middle-eastern politics, and particularly about the negotiations at Camp David in 2000 and in Egypt the next year, at which it is widely stated by the unsympathetic that Arafat turned down an Israeli offer of Palestinian independence broadly equivalent to their demand of a return to the pre-1967 borders, including possession of East Jerusalem.

Now, I have to say that such claims always puzzle and annoy me, because in fact even people who were at those negotiations don't agree even on whether an offer was made, and certainly not on what precisely such an offer might have constituted. How, then, all the commentators who weren't present at the meetings can claim such surety rather escapes me.( Read more... )

Wasted bloody day.

Fuck.

I've been waiting by the phone for a whole day waiting for a call from the guy who sold us our monochromator (the one that went phut on Thursday) and he hasn't called. And isn't answering his phone.

Hopefully this is because he isn't in the office today the other half of the company's off on honeymoon, so prhaps he's overloaded. I hope that's what it is.