moments

this week there's been a few of those surreal moments that make you smile and be glad for the unusual unpredictable things (people).



like DJ Derek, a rather more mature than "usual" reggae DJ 70-something i would say; playing at the Carling Academy (formally zodiac) in Oxford last night. before each track he'd pause the music and introduce it with a short analogy in a semi-jamaican accent.



or Tanya, the english lady who works at Donya's cafe in Selly Oak, speaks Farsee and attempted to teach us belly dancing! hilarious. she told me i looked like i was giving birth. that's what i get for putting some enthusiasm into it!



then there was sitting on the minibus that takes people from Brent Cross train station to "Jesus House", a big church in north london where i was to meet a great friend of mine. just a few women dressed in their sunday-best sat silently gazing out the windows when all of a sudden on the radio comes the song with the lyrics "i wanna make you sweat, sweat till you can't sweat no more" (or something like that!). it just sounded so out of place i had to keep myself from laughing out loud.


yes... London, Birmingham, Oxford... this week I've been on the move again and it doesn't end there. today i went to chichester and Brighton and tomorrow i'm going to Nottingham and Derby. am i crazy?! maybe. but because i am not the one to stay at home and sit around if i can help it by tomorrow night i will have seen quite a few of my favourite people in the last 7 days. nice :-) but sometimes i really wish my friends all lived in one place....! maybe that would make it easier to put some roots down a little deeper. somewhere.