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So Pia and i went to see Jimmy Carr on Thursday, in Richmond.
He’s an edgy bugger, for sure. All his stuff crosses the decency line, and tramples on the PC line… but it’s actually a relief to hear stuff said out loud that all of a sudden seems to be from a bygone age.
Yet his audience was definitely 50/50 sex-wise, and mostly young, with lots of teenagers. So the ( actual ) world clearly is NOT …. PC…. It’s just that somehow the majority are tiptoeing around a tiny minority!

He was funny though. Because there are now SO MANY ‘ things you can’t say ‘ there is a vast amount for edgy comics to insult/ ridicule… and he did.

Always good to see Pia – I don’t very often these days – but hey ..

Tomorrow I go to a gig with Jeanette… in Kentish Town. Thé Jade Bird gig I bought tickets for in 2019 has been postponed 4 times, and has even changed venue! It was supposed to be in Shepherds Bush. She was a young starlet when I booked to see her ..by now she’s probably married with 3 kids ….

But anyway! It’ll be good!

Deserted

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Blimmin eck it wont stop raining.

im going to see Jimmy Carr later on in Richmond He’s a funny fella

Mind you its raining sand at the moment – Sahara sand no less.

Apparently A camel came down in Hounslow this morning!!!!!!

You couldn’t make it up !

Blind people

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We had a meeting of the Unfortunates last week involving Chris and Paul coming to mine; because Paul got off the bus one stop too late with Bolt the dog they then had to navigate their way to my flat. Now given Bolt didn’t know he was coming to my place and that Bolt doesn’t know my name or indeed speak English.. and that Bolt had only been here once before …. you tell me how Bolt found his way to a flat in Brentford from a starting point he never been before which was a further half mile away then he previously experienced?

How on earth is a dog able to navigate almost a mile from a previously unvisited starting point to a destination he hasn’t been to for maybe six or seven months? To me thats just mystifying!

Anyway it was great to see the Unfortunates…life isn’t easy for at least two of us yet we endure pretty well and that shared experience we have makes us closer.

In fact Paul isn’t the only blind man in my life yesterday I was visited by another blind man who was very very useful – big thanks to Marky P for putting up my new blinds!

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Slightly fascinated by the demolItion of the 100 year old warehouses that are next to where i live

This part of London only really had ’ industry ’ for 150 plus years – first the Grand Union canal from Brentford to Birmingham, then superceded by the Great Western Railway branch line to Brentford Dock, on the Thames.

Ships arrived from all over the world, were unloaded by massive cranes, and then the goods loaded onto the canal barges, and later the train carriages, to be conveyed all over Britain

I’m watching the demolItion of the last remnants of all that industry and it’s substitution with apartment blocks and retail space. Brentford ‘ town centre’ will soon have been transformed too. The river Brent, for 150 years hidden by warehouses and industrial detritus, will soon be uncovered and in view.
I don’t think many people realise just how nice it’s going to be. Brentford is a bit damned by its unglamorous sounding name ( which of course only means a ford ( bridge ) over the River Brent ) but it’s in between and adjacent to Kew, Chiswick, Richmond and Isleworth, all of which sound smarter ( and have been for a long time ).

But not for much longer…

There’ll even be an accessible footbridge over the Brent/ Grand Union canal, really near to me.
That’ll be handy! I’m a bit buggered by all the other canal bridges, with their steps and steep inclines.

Knocking down all the dereliction besides my flat gives me a long view of the canal. Next there’ll be apartments built there, but they won’t jut out over the canal in the same way, because they won’t really need to have pulley access to the canal beneath, obviously…

All in all it was a good move to buy in Brentford, I’d say.

God knows what the Ukrainian war will do to property prices In London. There’s lots of Russian cash tied up here. What’ll happen to all the apartments actually purchased with Russian oligarch money I don’t know. There’ll be far more of those than most people imagine.

Might have to change my name from Russ, as well.

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Because my Voldemort ex surgeon thought it was ok to ‘ fix ‘ my spine in an immovable way, it means that I can’t turn my body at all ( as in AT ALL ).
Because my voice is really weak anyway, and i already struggled in loud rooms, I’ve now completely lost the option of turning and leaning towards someone I want to talk to, so I’m effectively lost in loud places unless the person I am with is right next to me.

That diminishes my experience SO much.

Lyric

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I went ( well me n Kerry went ) to see a play called Running with Lions the other day.
About 3 generations of a black family, now all in Britain ( tho the grandparents had arrived from the Caribbean ).
It was very good… though more sad than happy, with the family members more at odds with each other than they were together.
Ultimately they seemed to realise that understanding and respecting each other’s wishes was the best way forward though – so it was a sort of happy ending, with a life lesson thrown in.
I’m finding that the less ‘ luminary ‘ theatres are doing the best productions… who’d have thought?

Hammersmith Lyric theatre is both accessible and has helpful staff…! What more could a Spazzer Luvvy want?

Splattered of Brentford.

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There’s a reason why I’ve avoided trying to use an electric handheld whisk since I’ve been unable to jump out of the way properly.

I actually did the whisking ok, but then whilst trying to go backwards to the sink with the whisk in one hand, I accidentally pressed the button again.

Why oh why did I find that Angel Delight in the cupboard?!
😂