A weekend of two halves

Whilst my weekends are often busy and a little all-over the place, this week was definitely a weekend of two halves. I continue to be busy during the week working in the studio clearing up, which really does seem to be flying by.

I was London bound on Saturday, in particular South Kensington, an area I don’t really know. I was to meet with the legendary Vernon Dobtcheff to interview for Martin’s (Bristol Martin) radio show having initially asked him late last year. Anyway, the promised short interview became a delightful day spent with him, enjoying a coffee, then lunch, then cake even before any form of interview was done. Vernon seems to have worked with or know everyone so there wasn’t a name I couldn’t mention or a programme without an anecdote, I just hope it makes for interesting listening when Martin puts it out at some point (at the very least I had a lovely day). Had Vernon not needed to be elsewhere that evening I’m sure we would have chatted all day. As it was, Vernon had to be elsewhere so for a change I was back to Cardiff for a reasonable time and still had an evening to do with as I wished which was a welcome surprise.

The second half of my weekend was in Dorset, visiting Frank. Due to roadworks I ended up taking a more scenic route to get to him, but it was nice none the less to see a different part of the south west.  As has become the norm for my visits, we had a lovely lunch in Frank’s local pub, before heading back to his cottage for a catch-up and to watch ‘The Lady Vanishes’. Trips down to Dorset are always very sedate and enjoyable.