10.20
Bredonborough.
A meeting with Mr. Cheese at 09.00 to plan the scullery development & schedule the new roof.
New roof are two words that strike terror into the hearts of those responsible for handing a period property intact to the next generation/s of inhabitants; and this responsibility extends beyond the immediate to the wider community. I have now put new roofs on two main houses, Fernhill & Reddish Houses; this will be my third: approximately one for each decade.
The Minx is about to set off for Yorkshire & her gig this evening.
12.16 Blower’s Wine Bar, Bistro & Café
Dispensary,
On the balcony…
… with a mix of Weekend FT, e-flurrying & computerising…
Violence::Posted by buserian on June 27, 2008
A threat of violence is already violence. For example, in my own experience, a threat of legal action has already moved disagreement into an arena of disputation, litigation & lawyers. Mr. Alder once commented to me, in earlier & happier EG times (ie before he took control of the company & setting its direction), that once parties to an agreement had to look at the contract, the relationship was already over. And yet it was a threat by Mr. Alder, in a meeting between SGA, Mr. MA Fenwick & myself in Mr. Alder’s office at 63a, King’s Road, Chelsea on April 17th. 1991, to use legal compulsion to compel me to remain with EG, that finished our relationship. That threat-to-use-force was already force, and the threat itself a form of violence; particularly egregious when made by the party who had missed four consecutive royalty periods (because he had diverted those royalties in another company under the direct control of the partners, to support their own cash calls) to the artist whose (unpaid) income had become a surreptitious forced loan to the man threatening violence.
Arguably, this threat was the start of the endless grieving that was Endless Grief.
Some people will modify their behaviour when asked nicely. Some will respond to peer pressure. Some will carry on regardless. Such is the cost of moving in a public sphere. For me, the cost is too high, and I no longer attend concerts…
Perhaps the question, then, is how much can we honourably bear?
19.49 Laundry. Pre-packing. Organising the dressing room.
Practising. More practising.
The Minx is returning in the early hours from her gig in Yorkshire,
Evening skies I…
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III…
IV…
"Music is the architecture of silence."
