It has been over a month since my last update. I feel a bit bad about that, but I have not been a well boy and have had THAT cough and cold symptom virus After a self administered 5 days out of the office, the doctor gave me a Sickness Certificate for a few more days off, but at the time it felt like a runners-up prize as he casually mentioned that there is a "40 Day" and "100 Day" Cough doing the rounds. Fingers crossed the hacking cough is well and truly on the way out, but does remind me that it was and still is looming. My Mum is suffering from a similar cough, but persevering (many guilt feelings about that). After some debate, Mum decided that she would come down (I would go up to London and escort her) to mine for Easter - it had to be a short Good Friday to Easter Monday stay due to holiday commitments for colleagues at work . By checking that she was still up for it, well enough and had not have second thought about it during our six times a week phone conversations, I decided that it was safe to cancel her care visits and meal deliveries. I arrived in London to pick her up on Friday morning and among the first words I heard were "I don't think I will come down". I don't react very well to this sort of bombshell these days, but it took many negotiating skills and some pure bloody mindedness on my part to explain that once the care has been cancelled, the only options open to me would be for Mum to come down as planned or for me to travel up to London each day to attend to her. In the end, she came down and although it was quiet she seemed to enjoy it. Been a good month on the gig front. On 7 March I was at The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm to see The Unthanks. The concert was very special and performances sublime. On 27 March, it was off to Concorde 2 in Brighton to see Aussie songstress Courtney Barnett. I have been looking forward to seeing her since I first heard her single "History Eraser" about a year ago. The show did not disappoint. A little more painfully, I paid the balance of my Glastonbury Festival ticket. I am beginning to feel the excitement - as James said the other day, "You will now officially be a Glastonbury Veteran". My beloved Gunners have put on a good show of late (excepting the Monaco Champions League debacle). Currently secondly in the League behind Champions-elect Chelsea and also F.A. Cup semi-finalists.
We have had Cub Pack Leader meetings to try to sort out the programme for next term. It looks like we are putting the "Out" in Scouting.
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