where i've lived

a couple of hours ago or so i saw that the woodsman was about to start on channel 4 + 1... a film about a man struggling to come to terms with normal life after being released, a sex offender...

dinah was going to bed and i was toying with the idea of watching it, it's a great subject and one that's close to my heart... not that i'm a sex offender,

just that paedophiles get a horrible press in this country, in such a stupid, rabble rousing, hang them all way that even though the act itself is so hugely wrong, because of the stupidity of the press i end up wanting to show paedophiles more understanding...

like with many aspects of life there are those who want to show understanding and there are those who want to show hatred... so anyway i found myself online and lo & behold the films almost finished now and i'm still awake anyway, not having watched it...

a few years ago a popular, national, tabloid newspaper published the names and addresses of paedophiles all across country... a clear sign of hatred and possibly the beginning of my changing attitude and need for more understanding...

anyway, i find myself wanting to write a little description of where i live now and where i've lived, through the medium of google maps satellite view which is the same i think as google earth...


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i had a look back at blewbury and the definition is much better than it used to be... blewbury being ever so small and un-important... so indulge me, if you will... click on "view larger map", get rid of that daft balloon and check back here for directions...

you're looking at blewbury & you can see blewburton hill just to the east (the right).. you scroll out just until the picture gets worse... that more primary colours, grainier version that's been there for ages...

on the right of the map you'll see a river going north-south... centre on it and scroll inwards just one notch to get that better picture...

now follow the river south (down)... through a number of larger towns.. south-east, sometimes north, sometimes south, but always east...

follow it as it gets smaller in places and larger in places, until it gets really large and you can see many bridges going over it and it is in the shape of a capital M... in a city... it makes a capital M once before actually but this M has absolutely loads of bridges in it's top left hand corner...

(if you reach the millennium dome and the eastenders dip in the river you've gone just too far)

so with the M in the whole of the frame go directly north until you can see the new arsenal stadium... in the left of the frame, keep going north until you have the stadium bottom left of the frame, a pair of reservoirs directly to the north-east of the stadium, and a collection of 10 or so reservoirs roughly north-east of the pair...

zoom 2 notches in and centre on the pair of reservoirs, moving to the west a bit so that the pair of reservoirs is in the right of the frame and a park is in the left of the frame, the park has a train line running north-south immediately to it's west (left)... and on it's north-east edge it has a road, (running almost north-south at this point)... follow the road north...

after the park this road just meets other roads, until a bit of green on it's left, stop going north when that bit of green is at the bottom of the frame...

if that bit of green is at the bottom & in the centre of the frame then there is a line running almost diagonally across the frame, top left to bottom right, (the road we were following is itself heading a bit west as it goes north now)

that line you can see running diagonally was once a railway and it's now abandoned and indeed developed to the extent that it's hard to follow it on the ground, only visible from the air...

i currently live somewhere in the current frame, not far from that abandoned railway...

i have no idea whether or not this is easy to follow or indeed if anyone will follow it, so if you have a go please leave a comment as to whether it worked for you or not...

cue massive, rolling, tumble weed style silence...

now to bed x meeting dad tomorrow for a walking tour of london x

mad route planning

not too much sleep ahead of me, then the dawn project, then back here (not to floopy's) to shower & break my fast - (very necessary) - then i'm cycling on this route:



to hammersmithwork...

that'll be interesting,

my whole day bookended in theory by spski who thinks he's meeting me for the 2nd time @ the dawn project, and is definately coming round to ours in the evening...

that'll be interesting x

lost improvisation russian visitor

T came round yesterday to do probably my last session for the recordings, some piano, some clav, some hammond and also my voice...

good session, closing with the 1st of my longcat collaborative improvisations, T on voice, me on voice & hammond...

and i half knew it would happen, but somehow i thought if i waited long enough it would right itself...

cubase freezing at the moment i pressed stop, we went out to the plough after to wait it out and when i came home much the worse for wear 4 or so hours later it was still frozen, so the improvisation is lost...

it's happened before and i really need to get into the habit of saving just before i press stop... or maybe set up auto saving... foolish, and it means this week's improvisation will be recorded later today on my own...

i did however meet a man in the pub who said steven seagal is a great blues musician... this is going to make me laugh for weeks...

and then also at roughly the same time i had my 6666th visitor, sadly @ 8:04pm on the 6th of the 7th 07 and not 4 hours later on 7/7/07 but it's still great...

and tonight i'm meeting with felinity to go the circus courtesy of spski which is lovely, i was meant to be going with my dinah but some work has come up and though i'm very sad not to have her on my arm it's great that felinity can come...

oh yes, and where did my 6666th visitor hail from?

well i'm glad you asked, they hail from the great city of st petersburg.

x