I've been off with Harry for just about FOUR WEEKS now, this is amazing! I've not only forgotten what it is I do at work, I'm not entirely sure where it is any more. Luckily my neighbour works there, saw her today, they were having a very sophisticated outdoor lunch on our back lawn, with candlesticks and everything. I've arranged for her to take me in, I think I can just bluff it from there.

Harry's been very good all day today. We took him round to Dean's to watch Wimbledon in HD on his big screen. Yeah we have the HD screen, but I'm still too mean to pay for an actual HD source, and Dean has Sky HD. Harry was awake through all of what turned out to be the longest game of tennis I've ever seen. Awake and not crying! I was nearly crying myself towards the end of the game, didn't it get monotonous, Federer and Roddick each winning their serve, cat and mouse, tit for tat, back and forth. Like tennis. It started to get too late for us to be putting Harry in bed so we had to leave at 15-14 and walk home. Looks like we didn't miss much more then.

Right, chores for the day done, just time to catch up on the week's Countdown and then go to bed early for work tomorrow...

These are not just adverts, these are original adverts for products you will recognise, hand cut from pages of the NME and the Melody Maker, and lovingly posted to you in a cardboard tube. Um, yes, bargain. Plenty of old NMEs around, cut out all the adverts you like from those! I have a huge stack of music papers at Mum and Dad's still (I think) that I should go through one day, see if there's any Folkestone gig history type stuff in there.

The Pixies 01/10/09 and 02/10/09 GBP44.2 - 54.8 Olympia Theatre, Dublin (or tout it), then to the UK:

Pixies 04/10/09 GBP71.50 Glasgow SECC

Pixies 06/10/09 GBP73.70 Brixton Academy

Pixies 07/10/09 GBP75.00 Brixton Academy

Pixies 08/10/09 GBP58.95 Brixton Academy

Pixies 09/10/09 GBP121.00 Brixton Academy

All sold out at the original GBP30, hence those odd prices - you're buying direct from touts other fans. Or, why not try Pixies in Paris on the 15th October under a tonne at Le Zenith, Paris. Maybe we could make a night out without the boy by then...

Last time they played Brixton we went two nights, once upstairs once downstairs, both times were THE BOMB! I thought they looked a bit pedestrian on that youtube footage of their recent secret gig, but that was a different sort of event.

If only babies didn't grow so fast, and need changing every ten minutes, these Slayer and AC/DC baby grows would be cool! Or there are loads of cool (but too expensive, including postage) at punkbabyclothes.net. Maybe not this one particularly:

I feel sad now!

Been up since about 6.20 with Harry, that's the time he woke up for a feed - pretty good that he slept through until then for that one, but it meant he was extra hungry when he woke up and would not go back to sleep. So, Clare had to get up to feed him after he scoffed all I had prepared in the bottle. Then hiccups stopped him drifting off for a while, so I talked to him about computers and he finally drifted off in my arms about fifteen minutes ago... Have put him down to sleep on our bed while Clare gets on with stuff. He's lovely when he's quiet!

Going to >Folkestone Harbour< today I think, as it's a nice day. Why >Folkestone Harbour< with the chevrons round it? Trying out a new thing on twitter, near.st, indicate your location by wrapping the location in chevrons like that and they'll do the rest. Good for people like me who are interested in geocoded stuff but don't have a gps on the device they're blogging from. Maybe. Possibly going to watch some of the Lions game too, though it seems a bit pointless now we've lost the first two. Not going to watch the Wimbledon final now either!

Oh, maybe Time I need a changin' is my favourite rock baby pun so far...

UPDATE: I spoke too soon, he's awake and he's screaming louder than ever. Looks like he's set for the day.

See the journey planner, just testing it out with a commuter type service on Monday, I can only find first class tickets available for the new high speed rail link. And even then I can't find a train that gets me there particularly quickly. Can see one train home that will get from London back to Folkestone in an hour, which is good, but only first class tickets available for it. Gives people a chance to get used to how expensive this service is going to be I suppose! Possibly it's just that there are no advanced regular tickets for it, but there's a chance that it's only first class service on this new train. Anyone know for sure? Hmm, there are better places I could be asking this I think.

Just registering for family tax credit, well Clare is. Had to phone up to get a form, the guy on the phone asked our income now taking into account the fact Clare is on maternity, and we'll get about twenty quid a week probably. That's just the estimate though. When we get the form and fill it in we have to give the earnings for last year, when Clare was not on maternity leave, so we will get nothing. As soon as they start paying us this nothing, then we have to contact them again and say our circumstances have changed, and then they will bump us up to the twenty quid. What a piss poor system! Our circumstances have not changed, they're the same as they are right now!

Done more financials too, opened a bank account for Harry today, and applied for child benefit. We can get another GBP250 quid to put into a trust fund for him too as soon as we get that too. It all adds up!

Off now to visit Clare's gran, Harry's other great great grandmother who hasn't seen him yet.

Some ghostly nonsense, spoon fed to them by English Heritage:

At Portchester Castle, in Portsmouth Harbour, a member of staff heard the sound of horses' hooves and then saw a riderless horse emerge from the walls of the castle, race across the area within the walls, and then disappear again.

A visitor also saw the incident.