Comfortably numb, or not…

Gillian’s operation has gone without problems, so far at least. I had an email from her last night. She’s back on her feet and planning on having a brief look around the shops in a day or two. Subject to an internal examination by Dr Suporn today she will be, um, ‘upgrading’ to the large "Thai boyfriend". For those of you who don’t know, Dr S patients (affectionately known as "Supornistas"have to dilate 4 hours a day for the first 6 months, no fun at all from what I gather, especially in the early days. She says it’s pretty painful already so really isn’t looking forward to using the biggest stent. No pain, no gain, as they say. I asked her about the trach shave, she says she can’t see the old Adam’s apple, but the fresh scar is kind of putting her off looking too closely. Hopefully that will become virtually invisible after time. I just wish I was there going through it all myself, but it shouldn’t be too long now…

This Saturday our band return to the place where we did our first gig, Mariner’s in Bowness, so I’m kind of looking forward to that, as this time we’ll be able to do the gig without the first night nerves! I so enjoy playing in this band, we’re constantly learning new songs, which keeps us on our toes and stops us going stale like many cover bands around here, some of who have been playing more or less the same set for years, lazy sods. We’ve been sent another video clip by one of our fans from the open air gig in Lancaster in August. It’s now available for all the world to see on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvJ3XLAbEs

Once again this was just taken on a mobile phonecam thingy, so no complaints about the sound and picture quality please, though it’s surprisingly not bad for such a device. And you can see more of the band this time, even me, a bit. This is the only gig I’ve ever done with my hair tied up, simply cos it was a bit breezy and I didn’t want my hair getting stuck to my lipstick, but thankfully the camera is far away enough not be able to see my ugly face in close detail. Hope you enjoy the clip anyway, apologies to Pink Floyd and all their fans! (Hey Mum, did you spot yourself in the audience?!)

The singer’s dad took some video of this gig on a proper videocam, but I still haven’t seen that yet. We are planning a beer and video night soon where we can all get together and pick holes in our performance, which should be fun.

Anyway I have nothing in particular to do today except blogging and housework, so I guess now there are no excuses left. Groan.

Where’s my duster…?

xx