I drove my sister from Gfd to Heston on Sunday evening. She has just bought a new car and was returning James AX which she has borrowed while he is in Italy. The M25 was congested and she directed me on a route I didn�t know through Laleham and Ashford. We got to talking about a friend of hers who had bought what seemed to be a Victorian house in the area but it actually contained a Medieval long house. He had been a conscientious objector (apparently he sympathised with the Germans) and then he had become a book-dealer. As you might imagine they were rather specialised books � eg Madame Blavatsky and so on. (Actually Madame B influenced Mondrian) We went onto the early history of J Page. She has tracked down 3 Pages on the electoral role put together some time in the 40s, The link is that Page acquired the Crowley diaries from Tom Driberg at the time that my sister�s chum was dealing. As a local historian she was interested in my discovery that the Yardbirds had played Osterley in 1964, This isn�t because she likes the music although she knows about where Hendrix played in the area than I do.

A while ago I bought a tape of Richard Long the sculptor talking about his work. I played some it yesterday. I can see that its likely to get plundered before long.

I spent some time yesterday thinking about chord progressions where there are 4 note chords and the minor third in one chord shifts a half step Say Bo G6 Eo Bbm7. Played them through on the flute � and looked at some flute solos that were in my repertoire about 10 years ago.

In the Independent today � at last living up to its name � A W Smith predicts that Blair�s next move has to be towards Europe.

There� a maintenance visit coming up on my flat � I need to tidy it up for that

I printed out the 6000 word piece on the Sixties and thought it over a bit � added a few more quotations � eg Davy Graham on Graham Bond.