Album of the Day: Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
There’s some great songwriting here for a debut. Only Tracy Chapman pushes her close for the best debut release. This doesn’t sound like a mid-80’s record. The production serves the songs, not the times. Suzanne has such an understated voice. She makes grown men weep, almost 40 years later.
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A short walk to the SW9 school to start Thursday morning. I couldn’t be arsed to cycle. Too bloody cold.
I passed one fella carrying a jolly hockey stick on his commute. Blimey. The demographics of Sunny Stockwell have certainly changed.
And then less than a minute later, a fellow stick waver cycled past. We’ll be playing polo in SW9 this summer.
The Lidl coupons dropped. As expected, they were full of tat. I have some self-respect remaining. I won’t be wearing Lidl PJ’s as I bed hop my way around S Ldn.
The school day was decent. It got off to a good start with a Newsround catch up with the Year 9 students. I love the Happy Happy Joy Joy spin that Newsround puts on current affairs. We’re not screwed, after all.
Boy Y was celebrating his 14th birthday. What an age! I would love to be 14 again. But not 13, or 15. That was a GOLDEN year.
An unexpected fire alarm went off later in the day. This wasn’t a drill. It wasn’t a situation to panic about, either. Of more concern to me was being outside on a bitterly cold January afternoon.
I stopped off at the ‘new’ Sunny Stockwell Lidl on the short walk home. The old aisles were all over the place. It took me ten minutes to find the Gypo Corner. There was no sign of the promised paint job.
Thursday evening was spent catching up online and a little WordPress maintenance. It seems like every plugin is receiving an update on almost a daily basis. This means checking the front end across my sites to make sure that nothing is broken.
I wonder why the plugins keep on being updated? Something in the WordPress core? It’s a time drain - something I can do without.