It's already thursday and I haven't even mentioned the weekend!! The gig on friday; lovely to see S&R again!! Had beer with them and then headed to the Palais in Hammersmith. It's a small venue which seems oddly sideways??? I know that doesn't sound at all logical but it is a sideways gig, the stage just seems in the wrong place??? So the support band were the Departure, who sounded like Joy Division meets Franz Ferdinand, and really epitomised a fairly solid support band... they were listenable to but not enough to stop conversation! and then there was Graham! Now I don't know if I was distracted by conversation, have seen Graham maybe far too many times or it was the venue??? Went into the moshpit but it was full of unfriendly teenager boys, jiggled a bit but then headed to the periphery again to rejoin friends, Graham ended with a very self indulgent piece that had worrying reminders of 70's prog rock.... but I still love the bloke in his nerdyness

Saturday and i decided to forgo the SUV stickering to head into Covent Garden for the important purchase of a climbing harness. Tried a number on and one was by far the most comfortable and seeing as i'll be wearing it most of the day whilst working it seemed the one to buy so I got a Petzl Calidris



and was very very excited indeed... now impatient to try it out!