Baaad mother

A glorious sunny day on a secluded Devon beach. Three slightly hot people, three perfect ice creams, what could possibly go wrong?

Pot o'gold?

I can't believe...

...this is my first computer rant! I'd have thought I'd done one before now considering the amount of time I seem to spend coaxing these flaky machines to do what I want - sometimes to the extent of shouting at them to JUST FACKING TURN ON!!!!

Today was pretty typical: a full day's work to carry out, creating groovy graphics for another hip and happening school promotional film. But, what's this? The disk in which all my work lives has decided not to appear. Fantastic! Let me have another coffee and a blood pressure tablet...

I managed to narrow it down to a simple power cable fault and got the drive to appear. But at one point the bleeding machine wouldn't even turn on! Good job the wean was at nursery otherwise she would have seen her daddy reduced to a weeping wreck!

Customer Service???

Been a while but thought I'd let rip a little about a prime example of awful customer service. The doorbell went this evening around 8.20 and I was greeted by a young man holding out a scruffy ID paper (no picture on it). He started a well-worn schpiel about raising money for homeless people and just carried on regardless, oblivious to my polite requests to keep the level down as our daughter was asleep.

Every time I interjected he just ignored me, so I got a tad annoyed. Eventually I heard the littl'un coughing a bit over the intercom and said so to him, at which point he let forth a barrage of abuse, cussing me up and down as if I'd spat in his face.

"You're not going to sell many dusters with that attitude," I told him as I shut the door on another torrent of swearing.

Git!

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Moments

Been pretty busy on the recording front these past few weeks with Keith and Georgia. We've set up a semi-permanent studio in Georgia's kitchen - handy for the fridge and toaster. Most sessions involve a lot of laughs and a fair amount of beer. We're aiming to produce an ep of four songs we've been paying live for a while, but we tend to get side-tracked in new directions and have written at least one new song plus a good selection of bits and bobs.

The first finished result is the definitive version of Moments, and it's now playing on the jukebox above and also available on our MySpace site here: www.myspace.com/copinguk

We're all pretty please with it. There are also a couple of remixes on the site by Keith and myself, which are fun. We're working on mixes for three more songs and hope to have them online really soon.