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Bredonborough.
Town I…
II…
Country…
The car is loaded with a Happy Gigster’s Briggs & Riley Expanding Super Wheelie of Reliability & Joy, the very first Beaudoux El Fanta Guitar Craft model, a basket of various including water & beerless beer, and computer. Soon, a 96-mile drive from Bredonborough to Derbyshire for the UK Guitar Circle weekend.
18.28 Glenorchy Centre, West Derbyshire United Reformed Church, Coldwell Street, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Wirksworth is a handsome, small Derbyshire town in the Peak District, with many of the buildings constructed of stone. Its growth is based, historically, on lead mining. The Glenorchy Centre is separated from the Reformed Church building by a small lane.
It’s cold. The central heating works, but the ceilings are high & the windows don’t fit…
In my cell, there is a hole in one of the panes…
Wind blows in through the hole & the non-fitting window…
Oh! how I suffer.
Dormitory…
Oh! how they suffer.
Curt was practising in the chapel as I arrived, just after 13.00. He has flown in from the Seattle Guitar Circle, landing yesterday in Gatwick, specifically for this UK Guitar Circle 3-day congregation.
Lunch at 13.45, at which we attempted to explain to American Curt, what & how the United Reformed Church is differentiated from the Church of England. This is complex, and very English.
Inaugural meeting at 14.30. Guitar meeting immediately afterwards, beginning with Curt, who is in charge. He handed over for me to address forms of circulation in C Negotiable. A 10-minute tea & back to work, saved by the front door bell & Dr. Mike, arriving just after 17.00, up from Milton Keynes & recently returned from NYC.
Curt took over & I have been addressing a problematic arising within the larger family. Dinner is set for 19.00.
21.05 On the desk in my cell, a flyer I…
II…
Terton Rinpoche, aka Steven Seagal, is touring the UK with his band Thunderbox. In the flyer, Steven is holding what looks like a Gibson J45, and thunderbox is perhaps his name for a powerful guitar. Perhaps Steven, as an American, is unfamiliar with the English use of the word. At dinner, we informed Curt that, in England, thunderbox is associated with the small building at the end of a cottage garden. Also told: the story of Grandfather Austin Fripp’s nettlestick & its deployment in the dual thunderbox, shared with the neighbouring cottage in Crichel near Witchampton, when Austin was a young lad.
And further contributions to Curt’s understanding of the development of religious institutions in England, schism, contrasting dogmatics & Protestant theology, following associatively along, proffered by the Welsh member of the Team: Luther was famously constipated. At least he had a lot of time for writing on the thunderbox.
Dessert: superb cheesecake donated by a member of The League of Guitar Craft Widows.
Curt is leading the Guitar Circle this evening.
"Music changes when people hear it."
