Weather: Grey, drab.
Mood: Anxious, fatigued, in need of a good weekend.
Word: "Ides" - another year, another Ides of March successfully navigated.
Rosie: Obsessed with the tooth fairy, Cinderella and pink dresses. Becoming a real girlie girl.
Lunch: Cheese & beans on toast.
Exercise: 3.5-mile run through Greenwich Park.
Booze: After indulging in beer, wine & whisky last weekend, I've been abstemious this week.
Purchased: Tickets for Daniel Johnston at Union Chapel, Chairlift at Scala and Radiohead at the O2 all bought recently.
Media: After finishing the 1Q84 trilogy and Houellebecq's The Map & The Territory, I've moved to non-fiction in the shape of James Gleick's The Information, a sweeping historical survey of how systems of information have developed over the years, from dictionaries to computers, and proliferated in recent decades with the dawn of the digital age. On the music front, I love the new Tindersticks album (The Something Rain) and I've also been enjoying Scritti Politti's Songs To Remember.
Notes: Our focus recently has been on finding a new home, and the recent news that we're expecting a second child has concentrated our minds. We spent the first week of March in East Anglia looking at houses in various towns near the Suffolk-Norfolk border, while also spending a few nights at the Old Rectory in Flixton. We've narrowed our search down to a few properties and one or two towns, but the whole dreaded housebuying process still lies ahead of us. Our week in East Anglia was rounded off with a long weekend at Tide's Reach in Morston, on the North Norfolk coast, partly to celebrate Ruth's and her mum's birthdays. This has become a bit of a Playford family tradition, and it was great to catch up with all the clan and eat good food, do some great walks in Holkham and Blakeney and drink plenty of St. Peter's and Adnams beer.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-weekend
Blog: One thing on the horizon I'm excited about, other than our trip to Wilton's Music Hall tonight to see a LAMDA performance of The Threepenny Opera, is the Guardian Open Weekend festival next weekend. Held at the offices of the newspaper itself, it's not just a chance to get an inside look at how a major international newspaper operates, but also the opportunity to attend various sessions involving Guardian journalists. My highlights will be attending the recording of my beloved Guardian Football Weekly podcast, as well as Alexis Petridis in conversation with Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and physicist Jim al-Khalili doing a "brown bag lunch" session.
Photo: Birds swarming over the marshes at Burnham-Overy-Staithe.
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