Senses working overtime #580

1 Tough week of medical dramas...

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...with Keegan having his (successful) back operation, Fanfa her root canal, and the Minister of Defense his on-going hospitalisation in New Plymouth, and now Waikato.

2 Watching: FIFA World Cup 2026

 

Four games a day of top football action! Welcome to heaven.

3 Reading: Ringo - A Fab Life by Tom Doyle

I struggled to eek out some quality reading time this week but this excellent biography continued to hold my interest. Luckily, Ringo's alcohol/drugs fueled years were dispensed with reasonably adroitly.

4 Celebrated: Macca's 84th birthday...

...on June 18 with Now and Then (the video is great too but have tissues ready) and my favourite track on The Boys of Dungeon Lane - Home to Us. 

5 Listening: Billy Thorpe - Solo

Overtime: Thornton Wilder

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Basically, the motto of this blog!

Senses working overtime #530

1 First week of the study break:

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2 Reading: Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell

The novel centres on a fictional 1960s British psychedelic rock band called Utopia Avenue. Quite apposite given my recent run down of Pink Floyd's late sixties albums on Goo Goo G'Joob. 

David Mitchell even has a scene in the book where characters watch a 1967 Pink Floyd gig. Fun.

3 Listening: Pink Floyd's Ummagumma 

Specifically, the live sides.  

4 Reading: Truman - David McCullough

5 Watched - Alone: Frozen

Overtime: 

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day 

Thorton Wilder