Put da choecken in da oeven

Published on Wed 12 Aug 2009

I'm in a hotel room in Gothenburg watching an episode of The Simpsons I've never seen before and running a bath ready to soak in while finishing off the fairly excellent historical whodunnit I've been reading, before having a nice long sleep. I kind of feel like I should go and wander round the city a bit, but I've been in need of a big rest for a while. I'll be trying out the jacuzzi and sauna in the morning I suspect. I wonder how long I can keep this outrageous run of only staying at hotels which have saunas going for.

Here's the view from the window if you look out.

Here's the view from the window if you look down.

Oh well.

There have been some huge developments in my life in the last few days. Specificially, I got a fancy new telly because my old one kept turning itself off, and some fancy new garden furniture because my old picnic bench kept threatening to break under my weight again. I'm really quite excited about both, though I think getting four chairs for the garden might have been hopelessly optimistic. To be honest, getting two would've probably been pushing it.

Not really done much else. Adrian and Joey came over on Saturday to do some recording. Here's Joey showing excellent sartorial taste.

As usual when people come round to record, I made sure that the performers were made as comfortable as possible.

At least I didn't make Adrian wear a towel on his head this time. The song we did sounds pretty good I think. And I got to have veggie sushi from Tesco.  

Right, best go, got soaking, reading and sleeping to do. Is it wrong that the thing I'm most looking forward to at this festival seems to be Lily Allen? I've got to admit I'm a little surprised.