🤸‍♂️ Week 269 - Bounce

Another gig this week: I saw Arab Strap at Heaven with Andy. They played much of their new album, which is really very good, and as dark and witty as ever. Glamour Magick is a new favourite. It was exactly 30 years since their much-loved first single, The First Big Weekend, was released and with which they ended. It felt fitting that Aidan needed the printed lyrics and his glasses. I dragged myself out to London a couple of times this week, and twice did my swimming-sauna-steam health routine at the gym. My parents have bought themselves an electric car, my sister bought one a year ago, so that means my family are all EV drivers. Do I need solar panels? With the price of diesel climbing ever higher, we need to upgrade our second car, a fuel-guzzling estate. We took H and nine of his not-so-little friends trampolining as his early birthday party. These days they need little supervision compared to years past. We sat in the café with a coffee for their hour, and then corralled the…