Bredonborough Rising to the day
09.17
Bredonborough.
Rising to the day from a King Crimson gig. Adrian Belewbeloid was there, and most likely Billy B., although the other character/s were not determined. But it was a performance with the early repertoire, and even a mellotron onstage. A roof-top gig, with an audience looking down from a higher rooftop. Where was the best place for me to be set up? And the music never began. Strangely, it rarely does, in current dreamland Crimson adventures.
From Crim to feeding WillyFred, and setting him up for his morning. Over the road I…
II...
… to World HQ.
Morning sitting in the front downstairs study, Study Six, looking towards the Abbey, a site of Christian worship for 1300 years. Two council men arrived outside c. 08.20 to attend to the hanging floral baskets, a feature of Bredonborough’s town centre. The man in charge exhibited care while inspecting and removing dead blossoms: he was engaged in and with his task. The second man applied the water-nozzle.
At 08.25 I felt something, an infection-ish something, leave my throat.
Only a morning, one morning, a wonderful morning, a morning that took several decades for me to reach.
Morning reading…
To the right of this desk, two photos of the family kind…
The top…
… is of the wedding in1947 of Uncle Cliff Butler, who flew away recently on 2nd. September, the same day as Toyah’s Mother Barbara. In the front row…
… is Uncle Cliff, marrying my Father’s Sister Phyllis, Edie Fripp, the Sistery Patricia over Edie’s left shoulder being held by Winburnian family friend Kath, with myself at 11 months directly in front, looking down – clearly to avoid the photographer – and being held by Father Arthur. Granpop Fripp is immediately above Edie’s head, looking up. I believe the wedding was held at
St. George’s, Damerham, just outside Cranborne, and I remember being present inside the church, looking up at the rafters.
Below…
… is a photo of Evelyn and Edith Greene, c. 1917. When the two Sisters visited Reddish House on Sunday 26th. April, 1992, I asked them to sign the glass. It seemed likely that the two of them would never again visit Reddish together, and such was the case. Here in Study Five, to the left of the computing desk, is the fireplace from the Greene family home in Aberbeeg; removed following the death of Nanna Greene c. 1982, fitted in Fernhill House, Witchampton, and then waiting from 1987 until coming here c. 2007.
12.14 From a pal…
… our new CEO (RF NB who once worked in the record industry, now a player in Important Things) has taken control of the UK operations of the company. On Friday, he had to ask the entire staff if they would be willing to be paid four days late, since they had a cashflow problem because of a banking covenant. Apparently the payroll sneaked up on them, dealing an unexpected blow to their otherwise excellent fiscal strategy. Can I suggest a possible footnote for your book when referring to senior management?
‘Above a certain level, seniority is simply rewarded, regardless of success or failure at the task assigned. The negative-feedback element of the feedback loop is removed, with predictable results.’
From my reply… it is astonishing the degree to which those currently in controlling positions have, to quote will hutton, rigged the situation to suit their own interests. the end of a long epoch, i feel.
17.11 Lunch, shopping on the High Street…
… to the gym. Returning to World HQ, the Minx presents a good report from last night’s The Humans’ gig in Philly.
Enough online for one day. Disputation sufficient.
18.07 An evening practicing ahead.
