Day 423: Pox

Oh DEAR. I didn't get up to go and do yoga. Last night's gig was so good and so late. Chima Anya and Unexpected Guests were fabulous. I spent a lovely evening chatting to Rob B and remembering why he has the reputation for being one of the loveliest people ever. He's warm and down-to-earth and inspiring. It's years ago since we did that compere course which later turned into something else. He's a great teacher and he's fun to work with. Like Dylan Emery and Lucy Trodd and Patti Styles - they show what living 'yes and' can do, for them and for other people. YES... and yes and yes and yes...

The last set was a battle and that was cool. Waller was on top form - funny, slick, confident. I loved it. And then DJ Mind Gap pissed me off by playing such incredible tunes that I couldn't leave when I wanted to. I just had to stay. I couldn't stop. 

This morning, then, I lay in bed with the cat (new theory: cat pounces on face to get attention. New solution: allow cat under covers and stroke it, put up with no more than the occasional chin-nip). So I'm lying there, feeling the time tick by, thinking about ashtanga and how tired I am, instead of how wonderful I'll feel when I'm doing it. I lay in bed until it was too late, then I got up, ate porridge and went to J's house. Yoop.

Spent a large part of


the day with J and her two boys, one of them all weepy and covered in chicken pox. Bless his little wide-eyed, snotty face. I had fun in the car with Felix, rolling pound coins into the glove compartment, trying to get them to stand up. I pulled both of them out of imaginary mud a fair few times. We had fun with lunch. There were sweet times. And that's not all. Then I got to go home and do my thing AND THEN SEE J AGAIN!

We went to the flicks, to the Duke of York. Saw a French film. It was like flitting back in time more than ten years, when we both lived in Brighton and did things like that quite often. It was very nice. I like this woman a lot. She fills me up. She's intelligent and funny and all kinds of things that I admire. 

I find myself grateful today for all the things I've learnt, especially in the last six months, and how I've been given so many gifts and one of them is the ability/opportunity to do what I think is right and feel good about it. I'm grateful for the influence of specific people in this. Sometimes, just thinking of them helps. I'm inspired. So many good people doing so many good things and just being who they are and through that being very pleasing. You know who you are. Thank you.