A hectic day � moving even more stuff around for the planned decoration of the front bedroom in Gfd � another carload of things to Leamington � including the Kenwood graphic equaliser which I have put on the output of the main mixer � the little portable that only has EQ on two channels of its 10 channels. I managed to leave the computer mains lead behind � part of the problem of two locations � and so the battery died etc etc.

Lots of interesting people to talk to over lunch and Phil and Jan�s. Jonathan their son is about to go to Mafeking for six months to work in the International School. I said he ought to go to Kosi Mouth where the freshwater breaks through the dunes to the Indian Ocean and where you can walk up the beach to Mozambique. His sister Rachel is doing psychology and sociology at Surrey and her boyfriend is a major figure in the anti-war movement in Surrey. R is in the middle of an interesting project on secularisation. It started with three people to talk about their perception of secularisation and then works carefully up from there to large scale sociological concepts.

We were talking about the fashionable names and Foucault came up � someone in the room chipped in that he had always her favourite. It transpired she had done research on Christina Rosetti and her links with Blake. Not something that is at all obvious until you start to talk about it � she had ended up concentrating on the image of the ladder or staircase by which one is able to ascend from language to reality � but which has a deceptive curve or twist in it that means that you never reach the desired destination. But she gave up this high theory and is now trying to run a school in North Kensington which has a very high percentage of asylum seekers from all over the world. No surprise that this is pressured and demanding � but also with a special insight eg into the kind of stuff teenage Kosovans get into in the West End.

Good food too � so I ate too much of it

Back in Leantown I started listening to the old MDs � some of the drone experiments that led to the surprisiningly popular Horn Under Water on Plundafonix and also the 6 songs from the Airburst Suite which Cathy sang. I started to wonder about putting one of these on Lullabies. Also came across the California Girl version with the flute solo (very Travelogue I thought).

Started listening to Travel disc 2 again trying to spot Jacob � I cant easily resolve lute from harp. Refuge of the Roads and Hejira go back to back � boy do I rate Hejira as a song. It�s a ballad structure � simple repetition with fills � but the cumulative effect of the imagery � �white flags of winter chimneys wave truce against the moon/in the window of a modern bank seen from a hotel room.�