Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Finally, we had a sunny afternoon with the temperature reaching 22C. I did some afternoon sunbathing.

Lunch was sausage and apple casserole in a cider sauce., green beans, and potatoes.



It was delicious.

It looks like the rest of the week will be sunny all the way through.

Well, what a lovely day it turned out to be. After a slightly cold morning, the afternoon was quite warm. Warm enough to sunbathe. In fact, I had my lunch and a bottle of wine outside soaking up the sun.



Lunch was three sausages, mash potato and peas.

A very satisfying day.

It has been another warm sunny day. I did quite a lot of sunbathing whilst catching up on some radio programmes such as The 3rd Degree, You're Dead To Me, The Moral Maze, The Briefing Room, and Thinking Allowed. In essence, not a day being stuck indoors.

I did listen to Stravinsky in the morning and this one by the Hilliard Ensemble.



Off to do some reading now. I am entrenched in a book on Paris about the left bank area between 1946-1960.

It has been a gloriously sunny day. Also, I did my first face to face mystery shop visit over the island since the lockdown. A very straightforward visit to one of these shops where everything is a pound. I have another in Ashford to do either Thursday or Friday.

Mary gave me five hardbacks to sell on eBay - they are all unread brand new hardback books on WW2. I am not that interested. I wonder if my bro coming42 might be interested in some of them.




I am doing these for eight quid each including UK postage or added postage if abroad.

It is going to get warmer this week. Today in my sweet spot I sunbathed in 24 C of sunny warmth.

Well folks, after the dreary nondescript day yonder and without any brickbats thrown in my direction - I can say today has been a lovely warm sunny day in Faversham. I did a couple of hours sunbathing in the garden - which is resplendent with a range of flowers newly bedded by Mary and her green fingered cohorts. Sadly my rose bush has given up flowering more roses for now. However, there are a few white roses from the smaller bush opposite of my front door. Trouble is, it is less spectacular.

This recent debacle over statues should be germane to the whole "black lives matter" zeitgeist. Racism in any form should be quashed and reminders of any superiority over any other race should be countermanded with appropriate actions such as the taking down of the statue in Bristol. Ideally it should be placed in a museum in which both diacritical histories can be weighed upon each other. Yes, he might have been a philanthropist but also a slave owner that branded humans. Churchill certainly helped to win the war but also advocated white supremacy. Context is crucial.

Still I wonder what in a hundred years future generations will think of us.

It has been another gloriously sunny day. No clouds in the sky and excellent sunbathing weather. I did a few hours of that, drinking beer and listening to the radio.
I popped into town to get some provisions and did a mystery shop as well. I have four of these to do relating to COVID 19 safety rules for one of my European research companies worth twenty euros.



The garden looks really lovely and bucolic this time of the year.



Other residents enjoying the sun.

Lunch was a cheese and ham sarnie and my dinner a few minutes ago was two boneless salmon steaks chopped with caramelized slices of onion on a bed of Mexican rice.



Last night on Amazon Prime I watched a documentary on the making of Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd/. It was fascinating. An album that is still a classic.

Watching Season 3 of Fringe. Probably the best season so far. The idea of a parallel Earth and universes colliding are mindbogglingly developed here. I gave forgotten how good that series was!!

Well, the forecast for the week ahead is simply sunning sun all the way.

A much better day weather wise. The sun was out for the majority of the day and it became an excellent sunbathing day. I was nourished by rays of joy from the sun for the majority of the time it was clear skies without little or no clouds.

Lunch was chilli-con-carne with Mexican rice. I then had some Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

In the afternoon I listened to some music on BBC 6 Music and then BBC Radio 3. The latter station had the jazz music requests programme followed by a half hour programme on why music makes us cry and now one called Words And Music. This is a weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Today it is Travelling Fairs and Circuses with music, poetry and prose takes time to visit the fair, with words by Hardy, Wordsworth, Bunyan and Lorca, and music by Debussy, Tom Waits, Beatles, Stravinsky and Richard Rodgers.

Earlier I dug out some CD's by Beck - Odelay, Mellow Gold, Mutations and Guero.
So a music post will be forthcoming.

Well, what a great day. Been sunbathing already as it is that warm outside my abode.

Music drifting from the speakers as well.Perfect!

It will not last as the temps will be not much above 20C next week from Monday.