mintybloggydiarythingy 2.0

Week from Monday 13th October 2025 - Monday Doing Sunday Stuff... Tuesday Doing Monday Stuff... Having lost a day to VAX FEVER, everything is running late this week. One bit of good news and one less thing to worry about... Due my pressing medical schedule, I've now been excused that JURY SERVICE that was causing me additional anxiety. I still keep getting bulk emails reminding me that my civic duty is imminent, but I now have it in writing that I don't need to go! On Friday, I went to the ELF CENTRE to get some fairly comprehensive BLOOD TESTS done, ahead of my chat with the KIDNEY PEOPLE next week. I arrived nicely and promptly, as is my wont, but there was a cock-up with the booking! So I had to make myself scarce for ninety minutes until I could be seen. But this time I didn't need to do the "PATIENT WAITING" bit. I went for a wander around several CHARITY SHOPS instead... Week from Monday 20th October 2025 - Nothing new to report from my conversation with...

Week from Monday 6th October 2025 - DENTALLY CHALLENGED... On Saturday, I attended the HOZZY for another routine dripfeed session. All went smoothly. However, while I was there, the following bombshell was landed in my lap:- "While being treated with pamidronate disodium, you should maintain good oral hygiene (including regular brushing) and receive routine dental check-ups..." The last time I had any kind of dental treatment at all, it was 'in-house' at the "MAXFAC" department (Oral-Maxillofacial Unit) at the hospital. This was last year while I was still undergoing chemo. I haven't had a "routine dental check-up" since before the great LOCKDOWN, when my old dentist used that as an excuse to rid himself of any freeloading NHS patients. So now that it's time to once again get a CHECK-UP before my treatment can proceed further, I find myself at a loose end. As an 'out-patient' the onus is now on me to find my OWN dentist. An a...

Week from Monday 15th September 2025 - I went up to the hozzy for yet another BLOOD TEST ahead of this week's telephone consultation with the DOCs... But due to ROAD WORKS, the bus didn't stop directly outside of the hospital, as is its wont. Instead, one had to debus at the other side of the roundabout and walk up the hill! I just about managed it (breathlessly), but anybody who is actually handicapped or infirmed would have been totally buggered! Most inconsiderate, they really didn't think it through... "CELEBRA CADA SEGUNDO"? The final week of LA VUELTA fizzled out in an even more anti-climactic style than ever! All of those stages that were truncated due to PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS make an absolute mockery of any time-based rankings. In the event of such occurrences, everybody is given the same time at wherever they decide to end it. How can you say that someone 'won' a race that didn't actually FINISH? The last day's processional ride int...

Week from Monday 1st September 2025 - On Saturday, I dashed desperately into town to visit the CARTRIDGE WORLD concern, to avail myself of new toner for my 'office' printer. Turns out they are closed on Saturdays! So I had to make the journey AGAIN on Monday morning and was thus able to combine it with a 'regular' shopping trip (Teabags! Coffee! Chilli sauce!), before getting back to "MONDAY DOING MONDAY STUFF". LA VUELTA continues in chaotic style, but this week also brings the TOUR OF BRITAIN, which is being carried in full by ITV4 (Ned Boulting et al). Should be fun, if only for enjoying the scenery! MADS PEDERSEN would appear to have sealed the deal in the Vuelta's GREEN JERSEY points competition, unless anything untoward happens in the last week. As is so often with 'GRAND TOURS', I've already lost interest in what's happening in GC. Besides, with all the shortened stages, a number of 'wins' and the subsequent TIME difference...

On the 5th September 2015 , ten whole years ago now, we had the opportunity to see the newly invigorated KING CRIMSON in its 'seven-headed-beast' configuration for the first time. I thought it might be interesting (for me anyway!) to revisit the bloggydiarythingy for that time, in all its unabridged entirety - the ANTICIPATION, the EXPERIENCE, the AFTERMATH. I'm afraid that, looking back, it does read as a bit 'gushingly fanboy' at times, but these were MY opinions, MY thoughts and MY feelings as they wuz writ. I might not necessarily agree with MYSELF now, especially on the subject of 'all that drumming', but I've recently heard the whole show again via the DGMlive.com concern and it's a fair appraisal when all's said and done... (Listening back to it now, I still stand by my opinion that I preferred "Larks' Tongues II" and "Level Five" when played live by the STICK MEN, rather than by the full-blown KCrim.) Week fr...

Week from Monday 18th August 2025 - I took a trip down to Gosport, but I'd forgotten that the Print Shop chaps were on holiday all week. Nevermind, I needed to go downtown anyway, to stock up on GAFFA TAPE... (I made the trip again a few days later, so that I could run off another bunch of CD covers.) It's been a quiet sort of week, hence there's not been much to DIARY about. I've busied myself with a couple of "MUSIC PROJECTS", mostly involving turning PROMS things into either CDs or MP3s. I've also been doing some fairly deep listening of 'new' stuff via BANDCAMP. Week from Monday 25th August 2025 - Ooh look! another ruddy 'ORE GUSHED BANG COLLAR DAY'... I'm spending a huge chunk of the day binge-watching the entire six episodes of the spy drama "THE VEIL". It's compelling stuff, but I think it's fair to say that I probably wouldn't have had the time to get into it if we didn't have a 'DAY OFF'. ...