2025-11-09
• weeknotes • 410 words
My weeknotes for the period 2025-10-20 to 2025-11-09.
Yes, three weeks' worth of notes in one entry. My life, I feel like, has become fairly disorganised - or rather, I am being fairly disorganised, and I've ended up skipping a bit. A lot is sort of... not really falling apart exactly, but hardly going perfectly. It's really not so dramatic, and apart from the fact that I have gained a bit of weight (a bit under half a stone), it would be hard to tell from the outside that my internal state feels a bit more "chaotic".
So, I'm not going to do three sets of Monday to Sunday as I normally do, with half the days saying can't remember or did nothing. Instead, I'll just indicate the highlights.
On the 25th, Raffaele la Ragione hosted a mandolin workshop. We played Danses bijoux, but didn't get time to play Calace Siciliana.
It was really good!
On the 30th, we went to see Jools Holland. I didn't really know JH, but the music was fantastic, if a bit too loud. We recognised the saxophonist - Derek Nash - who me and mum saw before.
On the 1st, I went to the Hammersmith Apollo to see Arch Enemy, who played alongside Eluveitie (a band I absolutely love!), Gatecreeper and Amorphis. It was incredible, and I need to go to more metal gigs.
On the 9th (today as I write!) we went to see some greek music in Camden. It was (like everything else I've mentioned here - I am listing the highlights after all!) very very good.
I've also been out for work drinks, drinks with my mates (a very late night on the 8th!), etc.
From next week, I want to try to get things back on track. I need to: