i see you on buses

many reports to write this beautiful sunday afternoon, so i'll keep it brief...

had a delightful, way too short time @ felinity's birthday bash, i had to skip out before the food went on the barbie but i got to spend some funny time with G & felinity, beer in hand, it looked like it was shaping up to be a very pleasant do...
but i had to be on a train heading to brighton to see josiah perform in a gospel choir, hold grace...

i got to meet many of josiah's brighton friend who i've been hearing about from both josiah & grace, lovely people, really nice kids, also bo, spanna & dr K were there, dr K only recently moved out of my house loooovely to see her and laugh about stuff, bo there with M & G? M who she lives with, spanna with S who guesses presents... also N, M & A josiah's sister and family, they drove us back (grace, josiah & me) in the middle of the night...

when the concert started i found myself so holding back tears, really surprised me actually though it shouldn't have done, that packed out church, the powerful music, the 2 beers i'd had, i always get moved by great audience reactions, and this was very special...

josiah came on for a solo in the second tune and she was streets ahead of the other soloists, i know i'm biased but she's a pro, video'd her bits with my shaky low grade camera, grace spent some of the time with me, some with a few different adults there, but mostly she was with J, one of the brighton residents, she was amazing, she rocked grace to sleep in amongst the mayhem of the gospel gig, this in the second half when grace was really tired and quite out of sorts, J gave her to me and i spent the last few tunes holding my sleeping goddaughter, a priviledge i love...


utterly triumphant gig, lovely to have so many of josiah's friends come and support her, spski's smiling face wasn't amongst us sadly as it sold out unexpectedly and he couldn't get a ticket, but we still filled up two whole rows of josiah fans...

dr K said to me as josiah was singing away in the second of her 2 solo pieces that she'd really arrived in brighton now, and it's true...

josiah told me later that after the gig a lady from the audience came up to her and said i see you on buses, that kind of celebrity so suits josiah down to the ground, even now recounting it it brings almost a tear, although last night when she told me over a glass of wine amongst spaniards here i couldn't stop laughing,

so as i said we came back to london with N, M & A in their car, driving through the night, dropping off N & A @ their's before coming to ours, they live so close to P... who we saw today...

me & josiah out @ manolis's and P walked in, lovely to see her, tells me i'm being selfish keeping my goddaughter to myself... lovely for josiah to see her as well... if i didn't have to write these reports i'd be over @ hers probably today getting my hair cut and buying a bike... this beautiful weather brings such a nice vibe from people...

also saw C & S who i'd met on thursday in the amazon, but who i'd originally met some time ages with grace & josiah, so nice that josiah could meet her again...

la la la, what a nice afternoon... but look can i ever keep it brief? these reports aren't going to write themselves...

just to close by saying after we got back here, after me & josiah had drunk abit and chatted and i'd sorted out their bed for them, i stayed up another hour or so talking with E, spaniard, language issues... nice chats, my night ended not a million miles from where it started, a brief party @ felinity's, funny talk, a massive night down in brighton then closing with a brief partyette here, funny talk...

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