I am very tired

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Date: 21 January 2008 21:02:11

The Gig of the Year was on Saturday - mr b's belated birthday party with Brian Houston playing. It all went really well, and my relief that all the practical bits like PA etc had come together was something to behold. I think I started to relax and believe it was all actually happening somewhere around the second or third song. Lots of people travelled a long way to be there (though none as far as Brian himself) and as far as I could tell they all had a thoroughly good time.

Saturday night was of course great, but the weekend as a whole was lovely too. We had a few people staying with us, and quite a few were in B&Bs in town, so lots of people popped in for coffee/breakfast before going home on the Sunday. They all managed to time their arrivals and departures very well too, so although we saw 12 people in all on Sunday morning, the house was never too full. Marvellous. As well as Brian being hilarious as well as highly talented on Saturday night, Sunday morning produced one of my favourite lines of the weekend, when big sister's husband (who, with Neil, was slagging off The Archers, how dare he) described the Archers as "Emmerdale for the blind". I am still chuckling about that, although he is of course wronger than a wrong thing.

And just to prove I haven't made the whole thing up:
BRIAN HOUSTON 021

Oh, and that new curve you see in the stomach region (of me)? I haven't been hitting the cake, honestly, that's 3 months' worth of Baby Brother or Sister. eep.

(Popping in the morning after posting to deal with a misplaced apostrophe. Oh the shame - blame tiredness.)