It's a little too busy for my liking at the moment. A good barometer for when the balance of my life starts to tip slightly is my chess play.


 
I'm not a crossword man as I don't read enough and words don't satisfy me quite like numbers do. Therefore, a crossword to me is not just unfulfilling; I'm also rubbish at them! Geometry, proportions, abstractions and the like are more my style. When I make music, I often think in terms of shapes and in the rare moments I write for myself, I am interes...
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Greetings from East Sussex. Home life is a mixture of joy and the niggling stresses of home alterations but it is mostly very joyful. Having a proper high-quality supermarket on my doorstep is strangely uplifting. We will eat well this year. Also, having the sea as the horizon lets you know daily where you stand, where you cannot go and where you belong. It is humbling. 

I had a break from making music this weekend after a full-on week and another one to follow. This didn't stop me spending ...
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My first Tuesday as a Brightonian, and all is well. I won't bore you with the story of the move, but I will bore you slightly less with a few pictures:



Packing The Swede away. Very important.
 



My new living room, full of boxes. Loads of the bastards.




The view 50 yards from my house (which is somewhere to the left of this). If it all goes wrong, I have the option to swim out into oblivion in the style of Reggie Perrin...



I must admit, I do love it here and having the sea as a horizon is w...
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Apologies once again for the unexplained absence. I could easily blog daily with some knee-jerk reaction to 'this, that and the other', but I find myself content to be choosy with what I share. I'd rather wait until something comes along that doesn't feel forced or overarching - the same method I employ with writing poetry. Fortunately for you all, their is no poetry in me at the moment.

What their is, is the meat of a real-life event. I am writing this in a room half-dispersed into cardboar...
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