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Listening to Fab Four Suture by Stereolab

I bought this along with the last Manic’s album which cost me less than the £1.,99 it would have commanded in the shoebox that is described as the “Music Department” at the Oxfam shop in the village. I have not actually listened to that yet but it is copied and queued up ready. My daughter has discovered the joys of Windows Media Player which I suppose could be a bit dangerous what with all the sweary bits (I am thinking of that potty-mouthed Enya woman). There was a big disagreement on Saturday when I wanted to listen to XTC and got overruled in favour of The Sweet Sound of Emma Kirkby. The boy is showing signs of a dislike of good and loud rock music as well though he knows good TV and has the current mantra of “more Doctor Goo”. He showed no signs of fear at the rather splendid werewolf in this week’s episode. He was even rather taken with the discovery that The Doctor actually comes from Balamory and not Gallifrey as we all thought. I look forward to The Doctor being assisted by Archie in a massive Dalek battle outside that pink Castle. That divinity degree should come in very useful. What’s the Story in Balamory? Well ….

Hopefully we are off to Speke Hall next weekend. There is an Elizabethan May fair with music for the girl and weapons for the boy. There are also the occasional Shakespeare plays performed by the Ilyria group, usually only about five of them doing all the roles. Much Ado About Nothing was very good despite the rain. The watch under Dogberry were played brilliantly in the style of Dad’s Army under some pressure from the planes taking off from Speke airport which meant a complete halt of the play until quiet was resumed, though the quiet salute to “our boys” by the cast seemed so perfectly timed that you could almost believe it was scripted.