Fish and so


Wanted to write this a lot earlier but I hurt my hands a bit clapping at a concert. Shows you how often I go to pop concerts, not. I have been to a few in the past, but never many. And I hate the standingvenues as most of the Dutch ones are. So I wasn't looking forward to the Fish concert too much. I was doing this for my friend Mel. I loved his older work when he was the leadsinger of Marillion, but me being a fan went back to the eighties and after that I really lost touch. I didn't know he more recent work very well and had not listening to too much beforehand. We stayed to the back in the concertvenue, Patronaat in haarlem. This was perfect for Mel who is not as tall as me and as we were standing on some steps she had a good view. It took me a while to get into the mood with the first couple of songs, didn't know many of them, yet the man is a great enternainere and pretty left wing, never a bad thing with me. But the dutch public!!!! There was a bar at the back of the room, in itself a very bad idea. And people there were just standing and shouting at each other not listening to the music at all. Come on!!! These concerts are not cheap,why not just go to your local pub. Moments like these really make me ashamed to be Dutch. Rudest nation in the world and proud of it.

A day later we had a great day shopping in Rotterdam and then a wonderful dinner with Jaap on the boulevard in Kijkduin overlooking the sea. Oh yeah, life is good. The day was ended with the latest harry potter movie.

Haven't done as much work this week as I wanted but did finally get the 'begroting' sorted. I now know how many clients I need to live on and what to charge them. Yeah!

Sad at the not unexpected death of Ted Kennedy. I am old enough to hear my parents talk about him as the 'bad' Kennedy, the one who was in the scandal that killed a girl. But over the years that view changed. He did such great work in the senate, Kennedy stood up for the weak in the US. The disabled, the sick etc. And I hope the healthcare bill makes it through to honor his memory.

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