Recent Entries

• by Lucy Diamond November 20, 2006
  SunbeamWhatever I have to blog about today is put on hold, as it all seems irrelevant after the sad loss of Rebecca. I’d read her blogs, replied to her posts in the forums, and spoke very briefly in the chat room. Like many others here, she made a big impact on me even after such brief contact.19 ye...

• by Lucy Diamond November 10, 2006
  Waiting for GodotI’ve just bought a new keyboard and am sitting here waiting, hoping that it will be delivered today. They said it would, but what they say and what happens aren’t always the same. I’m on tenterhooks, as it’s a major purchase, one of the most expensive pieces of equipment I’ve ever b...

• by Lucy Diamond October 19, 2006
  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’...

• by Lucy Diamond October 4, 2006
  Sugar and SpiceAt 7:30 this morning, Thai time, my friend Gillian will have begun her SRS with the good Dr Suporn. I’m so excited for her, and ever so slightly wishing it was me there. Ironically me, Stephie and Laura (some of the local TS gang) and Natalie from Arran went out for a Thai meal last n...

• by Lucy Diamond September 15, 2006
  British CitizenA mere two weeks after sending off my application, I have just received my new biometric passport, correct name, correct gender, and a picture that looks like me again. I looked at the new and the old passports together to compare, what a weird feeling, was that really me, a previous ...

• by Lucy Diamond September 2, 2006
  MoondanceI’ve just discovered "free web-hosting" so by popular request I am now able to put up a link to a brief video clip of our band.It was taken on a phone-cam so the picture and sound aren’t great, and you can’t see much except the singer (the odd glimpse of me behind him, yes that’s ...

• by Lucy Diamond August 30, 2006
  Eating, drinking, being merry, oh and working tooYep, it was an interesting weekend, as anticipated…The Caribbean party on Saturday was great fun, someone had gone to a lot of effort to set it all up, as did most of the guests with their fancy dress. We played in a marquee, scattered around were sur...

• by Lucy Diamond August 22, 2006
  Rock and roll weekendSo, Friday night our band played their second gig at Kendal’s most prestigious music pub – Bootleggers. I say prestigious because it is their policy to only book decent acts, so if you’re a rubbish band you won’t get on, or if you do, they won’t have you back! The other main mus...

• by Lucy Diamond August 6, 2006
  By the time we got to Woodstock…Or Bowness-on-Windermere even. Last night we played on "The Glebe" at the edge of Lake Windermere for the Windermere Festival, nothing like Woodstock at all in fact, much more of a family affair, though for some reason there were a group of people there in h...

• by Lucy Diamond July 27, 2006
  Phew, what a scorcher!We seem to have been well and truly back in heatwave mode here in England. Of course the weekend when we had an outdoor gig was bound to be the one weekend when it went cold and rained. We have another outdoor gig coming up a week on Saturday actually, so I guess that’s the wea...