mintybloggydiarythingy 2.0

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...