Woken by a phone call from Ken Thornton who has arrived to see the show and give his very generous support as always. We walk down Broadway and find a small restaurant with tables outside where we have bowls of berries, scrambled eggs and coffee. Tonight we are hoping for a good crowd, being Saturday, […]
Today Neil and I visit a NY accountant who is actually quite upbeat about the whole experience and demonstrates how a loss doesn’t have to be all bad (trade secret so no more about that). He has answers to all the questions we put to him. One positive thing about this visit has been that […]
Wake up with the birds as usual and am first in the queue as Starbucks opens it’s doors. Later when Neil joins the land of the living, we go and visit some new friends and spend a very pleasant and relaxing hour high up on a terrace above the city. Then into Jamba Juice for […]
Not sure why, but unable to sleep more than four hours at a time over here. Neil is sleeping far more than me, which is unheard of at home. There is no reason I can think of. Anyway having gone to bed at 2am, I am up again at 6 and thanking all the powers […]
Another sleepy day for Neil, Tom and JJ. Again I take Neil out for some air around lunchtime and watch slightly nervously as a large airship (dirigible??) moves through the air amongst the skyscrapers. Turns out to be a wholly innocent. Back to hotel and to Dillons slightly earlier than usual to set up and […]
Neil feeling completely bushed (relatively speaking) but The Big Apple calls so I walk all the way down 7th, with a minor stop at Macys, to Greenwich Village – Bleeker Street. Think it will be cooler today so don jeans instead of shorts and it just gets hotter. Keep detouring into Jamba Juice for shots […]
Wake to find Neil has already tried to drop the piano off at SIR unsuccessfully. Tries again at 10am and this time after much shouting manages to get someone to hear and let him up the elevator. Then picks me up and we go to the first Starbucks for milky coffee. Then back across the […]
And my ………ieth !!!! birthday. Neil wakes me up with a cup of coffee, and croissant and a present – a sparkly pink bag which, I have to say, I love. Also a pretty card. There are messages from Luke and friends in England on email so feel loved and in a thoroughly happy mood. […]
Will remember this morning for a while. Wake around 4am with headache which becomes bad at 6am and unbearable at 7am. 7.30 finds me staggering to the nearest shop for Tyrenol. Then out cold for about four hours during which time Neil is meeting Jason and a couple of radio guys downtown. Finally wake at […]
Meet Bob for breakfast in a deli close by the hotel. My melon arrives as their cooked breakfast has been eaten and the coffee makes your teeth jangle. Still we have a good talk about the secret Bonzo concert in January – oh no not the leg irons… get off get off!!!!! Later meet Tom […]
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