Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Well, another change in the weather. Much sunnier and milder today.
I popped into town to get some food wine and beer.
I had a small snack for lunch but dinner was delicious fresh salmon with mashed potato and peas. Washed down with white wine of course.



Very tasty brain food.

Listened to some more jazz avant-garde stuff with latest Cd from Alender Hawkins.




I had a very large salmon steak so the rest of it will be with rice tomorrow.

It turned out to be a lovely sunny day. I completed three visists, starting in Maidstone, and then in Hempstead Valley, and finally here in Waldeslade area of Medway. I am doing one of my drink only visits. A pint of IPA and a glass of red vino!





TomorrowI have just Canterbury and Westwood \crsoo shopping centre.

Cheers and salutations!

At least I had no truculent recalcitrant obdurate jobsworth to deal with today. In fact, I had a pleasant time completing the last two pub food visits in Sittingbourne. I decided to get them out of the way today - as firstly, it was s a sunny windy day, and secondly, the next two days the batches will need to be in place. We have a wet windy storm coming with winds up to 70 mph!

Luckily it is a quiet week, so good in one way, but bad financially. Anyway, the next few jobs aren't expected until Thursday. So, for now, it's bunker time.

The sun struggked and the mist won in the end.

Posted those books off.

Had lunch at Spoons asit wassteak club day.

Well it was pay day from ESA,React and Lodge so lunch it was.

Listened to all the new albums now.

Another busy day coming to a close. I am currently in Sevenoaks having just finished a beef madras curry with beer at a ‘Spoons pub. The last of my three covert shops today. The other two were mobile phone shop visits. The weather started atrocious this morning after we had the free breakfast at the Quays. But by the afternoon it had cleared up and the sun came out for awhile, giving us a bit of winter warmth.
The cough is slowly abating as the mucus is shifted by a tincture that tastes worse than an old sock, I am beginning to feel slightly better, some hacking still, but less of it.

Thankfully,the Doom Bar was off today so rather than that designated drink from my choice of what i can have on these scenarios, i had a pint of Tonbridge American Pale Ale. (5.4 % ABV).
Soon i shall be heading home knowing that Friday i have nothing planned but a cinema visit on the Saturday in Rochester..

It was our monthly lunch club day in Brighton. Phil picked me up at the usual time and we headed down towards Brighton.We met at the Post and Telegraph - a 'Spoons pub - and had a couple of beers. Lunch was at our usual venue, Bella Italia, Mike and i had the Calzone Diavola which is described as "Spicy ‘nduja sausage, Italian pepperoni, chicken, mozzarella, red onion, cherry bell pepper and green chilli". Calzone is a folded pizza with pomodoro sauce.

Then for dessert most of the party opted for the Framenti.




Fried dough sugared strips with chocolate 🍫 sauce. On my word,so delicious.Not enough chocolate sauce though!


All washed down with the house red vino.

On the walk back to the station car park i popped into Across The Tracks to see what jazz and improv |D's they had. Found three for three quid each.

Spunk ‎– Still Eating Ginger Bread For Breakfast (Rune Grammofon)
Mats Gustafsson, Christof Kurzmann ‎– Falling and 5 Other Failings (Trost)
Barney Wilen - Dreamtime (Nocturne)







It was a very enjoyable day.

I had just visit to do today - a pub food and drink one in Sheerness.I had my favourite lamb shank washed down with a Green Devil IPA and a glass of red wine.

At least the weather is dry if quite alot cooler than the heatwave we had recently.

Turkey crown,pigs in blankets,roasted chestnuts, roast potatoes, carrots,and so on made a great Xmas dinner lunch. We started with a couple of rum and cokes, wine for lunch and after a few malt whiskies and coffee Poor old Ros was not up to anything eating wise and bro struggled a bit leaving me to finish the rest.

I am now completely stuffed and full. We watched an episode og=f the alumni version of University Challenge which had the stemmed novelist Val Mc Dermid on one of the teems. Their team won by a landslide.

Xmas gifts were a new jumper,a pair of headphones, and two books.

These were -

I have been sunning myself in my usualspot outside the library where it traps the sun rays efficiently. Temperatures rising to ariund 28 degrees C as well!

A good couple of hours of sunbathing in fact after looking around the food market held in the town each first Saturday of the month.

I sampled some cheeses, chilli olive oil, spicy honey and ginger sauces and a very tasty artisan bread.So i got the camera out and snapped a few pics.


( Pics here )

Yesterday I took the train from Seaford over to Moulscoomb station to see my brother. Had lunch with him and Rosalind. A delicious chicken Kiev dish with new potatoes and a medley of sweet corn and peas. Pre-lunch had a couple of Bombadiers, with the meal being washed down by a fruity French red. This was followed by a filling apple pie with custard. Mike and I then finished the day by demolishing a 50 cl bottle of malt whisky.

He also gave me five anniversary singles form the Motown label to put on my Discogs site, although I am rather tempted to keep them. The singles came out in 2009 as a limited edition collection to celebrate 50 years of the Motown sound.

The earliest one is the Barratt Strong record “Money” which the Beatles covered in their formative years. One of the best tracks in the collection is The Temptations “Get Ready”. , one of my favourite tunes form the late sixties on that label.

Today I visited Lewes again to do another Green King pub visit over at Landport area of the town. The real ale choice was down to one only - the basic IPA.



Back to Kent tomorrow, and on Wednesday I am meant to take cousin over to Canterbury to the Kent cricket ground as he has a couple of complementary tickets, but alas, the dosh situation will not stretch to it. If it was for next Monday instead then it wouldn’t be a problem as I have a pay remittance from one of my companies I do visits for in my bank that day. Sod’s bloody law!