Scaffolding is up…
09.56
DGM HQ.
What is dear old Mr. Stormy bringing into the Chamber of Venality? I…
II...
A pile of Panegyric re-issues.
E-flurrying underway.
11.20 Nicky Book-keeper & Indeg Secretary in DGM Reception…
Hugh in the dedicated-space DGM Art Department (the room above the butcher’s block where only the floorboards separate the separation of random animal parts…
David & Mr. Stormy…
… are at work in DGM SoundWorld II…
Mr. Stormy is working on P4 in Seattle.
David in DGM SoundWorld addressing the Chalke Valley compilation…
This includes the Orchestral Soundscape version of Pie Jesu, which is glorious.
DGM HQ: a powerhouse of activity.
The street I…
II...
Look a little further down the street…
… to the yellow bungalow with a For Sale sign. This building is a testament to dopiness.
Broad Chalke has very little in the way of office premises, and in the 1990s this building was about it. DGM hired 2 rooms here to house our Mail Order operation. When T & I moved away from the village in 1999, DGM looked at the building with a view to buying it as a new DGM HQ, for which it would have been quite suitable. This almost happened, but for various reasons unconnected to us, negotiations fell through. Recently, the building changed its use from commercial to residential & became a fancy bungalow dwelling. This is not a building inherently well-suited to residential but, despite this, was refurbished & recently put on the market at £695,000. It is now on the market at £395,000, less than the cost before the building work started. It is now useless as an office & ill-suited as a bungalow. Did I mention this was a dopey undertaking?
Kitchen discussions with David over various future possibilities, given the recent change in KC Celebrating plans, and looking at forms of completion & radicalism. Next year is a big shift for me personally, I sense. A shift to what, I don’t know; and a hunch that this is not yet decided.
A Kitchen meeting with Nicky & David looking at EMI arisings. A call has come in from the second-tier lawyer at EMI, he who has been unable to respond to the audit since it arrived with him last February. Have I mentioned that this lawyer is part of the problem, not part of the solution? Actions we set in motion yesterday led to a call coming to him from above. Meanwhile, his immediate boss returns from holiday next week & perhaps then there will be some movement.
Soon off to Bredonborough. I am collecting Father-in-Law Beric & taking him to the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham tonight, where his youngest daughter is a 2,000 year old Vampire She-Devil.
16.23 Bredonborough.
The sun is shining…
The sky is blue…
Scaffolding is up…
… and a small acquisition from Romain’s Emporium of Wilton, collected yesterday, is in place…
Library steps, c. 1780. A small feature, hopefully unnecessary – the steps contain a commode. Just what was needed for the Georgian bibliophile caught short.
Off to collect Beric en route to Birmingham.
24.36 A superb show with Brummies going out to have a good time. A fabbo show further energised by a fabbo audience.
As a young travelling player, I divided North & South at Birmingham. South of Birmingham, people went out to have a bad time. Birmingham & North, people went out to have a good time.
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But, we'll never get rich without it."
