03/26/2010: "after midnight timewarp"

lashing it down with rain here for the past 3 hours, rattling against the windows.
sprogs 1 & 2 have gone to kip as has the missus.

all is quiet and peaceful, i can read online without the need to stop and answer a question or a phone call, or put rubbish out
i can have the odd brew and a tab, without standing on a childs toy or being in the way in the kitchen as everyone suddenly wants to discuss stuff
i get full control of the ramone (thats remote control to you) - theres never anything on, but i choose what not to watch!

i can crack on with writing official letters, plan out garden growing for the year, look into pipework, gawp aimlessly at the non ceiling roof and try to follow where the wiring needs to go.

at the moment, im looking through some pictures of jimmy forsyth - you can see some of his pictures here - he lived in newcastle through the 50s and 60s and documented it all in pictures, his community that was being knocked down, so recorded its history/its people, in photographs.
ive always been a fan of this type of work, comparisons with lowry's paintings (taking photographs without a camera if that makes sense?) are easy to make - just because an area of the uk is totally different, doesnt mean that the history of the people that grew up and lived there need disappear.

i found out about him when i was flicking through a 2009 copy of the times and came across the obituary section, once again in another after midnight timewarp, this time it was wednesday heh.

these times of night often fly by, the "experts" tell us not to read before bed or we wont sleep, stuff that, i sleep much better now than ive ever done! (watch this now, bet i cant get to sleep for the next 3 hours)
it may not be spectacular, it may not be exciting, but for chilling out.... the after midnight timewarp is the best!