Cocaine nights and cash-back on a thunderstorm.

 

The lawn is about a metre high now. Its great wading through it and finding a patch to lay in and read whilst the local birds sing away. It is so peaceful and removed from everything its hard to know what year never mind what time it is sometimes.

Unfortunately it is time for it to go.  In the nearest gardens everything is immaculate and I expect im beginning to reflect badly on the community with my beautiful shabby meadow. It is so lovely though, packed with wild flowers, birds, bees, butterflies and the only insect I war with, the mosquito. So I picked a load of wild flowers today before the imminent nature cull this week. Long grass has taught me one thing though. Pheasants should never play hide and seek. Yes george you may duck your little head down into the grass but it s hard not to notice your enormous tail protruding out of the clump of green you’re hiding behind. I guess they re like babies who think you can’t see them if they cant see you.

Well it seems to be turning. The wind is getting up all of a sudden and I believe that was thunder. I love thunder. Maybe I ought to get recording. I remember Geoff Goddard once told me how he and Joe Meek always considered a thunderstorm a good omen. “Telstar” and “Johnny Remember Me” were both blessed by nature in this way during there recording. I wonder does it work if the storm starts before the song? Can I cash in on this storm?

 

Sidenote 69.2 Geoff Goddard was a really lovely man. I hope the new film shows him well. He never gets the respect for his talents like Joe does.

Sidenote 69.3 I’ve been reading J.G.Ballards “Cocaine Nights”. It is good, although good it is a bit too like “Super Cannes”, the book I just finished. Although i know Sooner or later there will be a passage which will take my breath away. he always does at somepoint.

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