I had a lovely time in Northumberland, so nice to spend time with Mick's family. Back to work yesterday and boy was I glum. I felt like I had lost an arm not having Mick with me every second of the day,( if I could I would, every second!)
We toured the shorelines, Lindisfarne, Whitley Bay, Warkworth and Tynemouth. Had a fab day out in Newcastle, visiting the Laing and Baltic art Galleries and the locations of 'Get Carter'. All of which where filmed, as soon as I get time I will make an edited version to post. But at the moment I'm hurriedly trying to prepare for a weekend at the Green Man Festival. Gathering together wellies, rain macs, umbrellas and a tent that doesn't leak, yep it's looking like it's going to get muddy! But I'm not discouraged, no no, we English learn to expect no less, I shall grin and bear it and pretend their is no problem at all, I'm good at this, Mick will do enough moaning for the both of us anyhow!

The highlight of the line-up for me without a doubt will be King Creosote. I saw him play at the Barbican and was absolutely captivated, his voice was so powerful it made the hairs on your arm stand on end. And having discovered the joys of MP3 players whilst travelling up North, I have fallen head over heels with his song '678'. Below is the youtube video. (Sorry I'm addicted to Youtube!)
I have so much to do before I can leave on Thursday and all I really want to do is sit and read my book. I'm hooked on the books of Jeanette Winterson. It started with Pete's recommendation on his website of the book 'The Weight', that combined with Gina's comments about her encouraged me to buy it recently when I came across it. I read it in an afternoon and went straight back to the beginning and started again.
I'm currently reading 'Sexing the cherry', I must admit I was put off by the name but am glad not altogether as it is such a great book. Her writing is full of little gems of wisdom interwoven into bizarre tales involving peculiar characters in strange landscapes. She uses fairy tales ( in this case 'the twelve dancing princesses') and myths in a clever way so that they don't loose their depth but have strange twists and turns. (Gina, and anyone else familiar with her, if you can recommend any of her other books I'd be grateful.)
Anyway, time I got going, I have a marvelous evening in the laundrette planned, whoopee!
Hope everyone is well, will catch up with all your blogs asap!
(I will put up the KC video later, at the moment You tube is down. Okay second thoughts about the video, on second viewing, with sound, I discovered it's not a great example, it starts half way through the song and ends half way through the video, I shall endevour to film him live, if he does the song at the green man, ooof what a ramble!)