How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

Lovely day here, being spoilt for fathers day breakfast then off to the beach

V hot & humid for my walk today so it's shorter than usual, but I felt better off than the drivers confused by unexpected diversions for the London - Brighton bike ride. I usually see notices beforehand but didn't this year; seems I wasn't the only one.

Far to hot for me. Stayed in doors. Four days cricket photography starting tomorrow, two days off then another four. Praying it will be a lot cooler.

Oscars really are a nonsense most years. As much as I like Emma Stone I completely agree that Natalie Portman's performance in Jackie was far more impressive.

I'm on the train to work and wondering if I should have brought a cardigan in - my desk is located directly below an air-con vent so I'll probably be freezing today until I step outside.

Glastonbury is just days away. Anyone going? I've only been once, in 1994, but it's permanently fixed in the memory.

EDIT: just remembered that I stayed in a local bed and breakfast, not a tent - the only festival I've attended but never in my tent.

Went to 15 Glastonbury's in a row. Gave up about 6 years ago as just couldn't do it anymore. Still love camping though

I went to WOMAD in Reading in a heatwave year, in the days pre-Health & Safety when everyone parked next to their tent. As you drove in, the signs said Right for Day ticketholders and Left for Weekend. So I turned left, being slightly bemused to be handed a bin-liner through my car window by a steward who checked: "Are you here for the weekend?" I was directed to a field with everyone parked beside their tents, all tightly situated together. The parking steward asked me how big a space was required for my tent, so he could tightly position the next car, and I breezily replied that I didn't have a tent and was staying in a B&B. He gave me a look of incredulity and said that I wouldn't be permitted to drive off the field until the end of the festival three days later. So, I did a LOT of walking across Reading that weekend.

Overtired, overheated day working, then out, via a nice walk through sunny Birmingham for Idina, whom I find it hard to be objective about - her solo material is middling at best, it was a disjointed set, she was loose and slightly manic at times, her voice took a few songs to bed in, the arrangement of Bridge over Troubled Water was seriously dodgy, there was nothing from If/Then, there were many empty seats (Grand Tier closed off), but at times she just about split my face in two from grinning (It's fair to say she knows how to sing 'I'm not that girl'). She's an absolute force.

Despite having a general panic/existential crisis about job situations this week (made worse by a woman who owns both a house and 'investment property' in London and only works part time telling me how much easier 'young people' have it today) and generally feeling woeful and lets face it melting...I have actors rehearsing to perform an extract from a play I wrote including an actor I've long admired. So there's that.

Meanwhile anyone wants to find me a job (or slap that woman for me) I'd be most obliged.

Alas, I'm too old to start again in London. (I'm not built for living like a student at 33.... or 2 hour commutes, my time in the 'provinces' has ruined me)