birthday jai eating apples still

felinity, mum & dad, dr K, & spski (in the end) all joined me for a trip to jai krishna yesterday to sample their delicious vegetarian indian food...

i wasn't sure that dad would like it but he said it was really nice (it is after all really good food, even if it is vegetarian), really nice surprise to see dr K, her dad is about a month or two younger than my dad and we talked about late 50's britain, conscription, my dad being a student and later being in a job that carried deferment, which took him through to when conscription was stopped, dr K's dad going into the army, being posted in kenya, then going back out to kenya after he was discharged, eventually becoming a £10 pomme, sailing over to australia where he started his family, dr K being one of the fruits of that family...

dad gave me a couple of books of sudoku, including one supersudoku which is a 16 by 16 grid, using hexadecimel (0123456789ABCDEF), but the same otherwise, oh the long summer afternoons...

lovely as ever to see felinity who will be joinging me to see the wedding crashers some day soon, she carried mum's guitar all the way from tooting which we'd brought up when we brought the bikes up, my intention is to use it to practise the singing of exact harmonic intervals as laid down in harmonic experience, the huge music theory book i've been holding off until i can really practise what the writer is talking about...

i'm about half way through the apples that i bought on saturday night for the apple bobbing, which didn't happen in the end, along with the three-legged races & the passing the balloon between your chin & your shoulder... when i got to the party spanna was really up for it but noone else and it fell away... there's talk of some kind of birdbath road alternative olympics which will embrace all the above and more so none of it is wasted...

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