Neil Hopcroft

Today, having not even ventured outside yesterday, I went for a walk around the park in Tonbridge. All the way around were places I recognised from my youth but they all looked small, I remember them being huge woods, massive railway bridges, fields for miles and miles. It must be the same as Mars bars […]

Reformed, and playing a gig in london… Their 1000th gig (when they split in 96) was a stormer, supported by zeni geva, a kind of japanese wyld stallyns, who did a 20 minute sound check before clearing and letting the donut on stage. Apparently more info at www.howlerrecords.com

At last the DSL connection here (at my parents house) is up and running – its so nice to have bandwidth again properly, for the first time since leaving Hornsey Road. Beyond that, not a lot to report here, contracts have been signed for my return to Tokyo, but they’re still sitting on my last […]

Just gotten back from sushidogs tea party, a thoroughly civilised affair, which will, doubtless, be documented by others better than I can hope to do here. It was good to put some faces to names, though, and some fine buns and scones prepared by our wonderful hostess. I knew I was in the right place […]

Wackiness: 0/100 Rationality: 0/100 Constructiveness: 20/100 Leadership: 20/100 You are an SEDF–Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting. Your friends may […]

Back in Kent now, for the moment, a bit of writing up of the last few days still to be done, but in the mean time I was being scared by some photos from my university days (courtesy of Sara, thank you) Oh, and, “My Best Friend is beermat…Our 44 common interests…” according to this

Whistlestop tour continues – a few days in Huntingdon, including a rather nice afternoon tea spoiled somewhat by a careless driver in his dads Astra. Then Norwich yesterday where I caught up with Dave, heard about an interesting project and randomly found Bill in the curry house. Now Kings Lynn. Next Lincoln.

London on thursday wasn’t quite as planned as I had hoped – but theres nothing new there. I started out meeting minusbat and godgirl for lunch in Angel….we went for a wander after, for Marge to buy some travel books. The charity shop lured us with a promise of some Hello Kitty merchandise, unfulfilled, but […]

Safely back in the UK now, still a bit achey from lugging around 30-odd kilos of baggage and a touch jetlagged, but basically all is OK….much mail to catch up with. Now for a plan….London tomorrow, let me know if you’re in the capital and would like to meet up? Then Cambridge-ish thursday, then possibly […]

…such as it is, is that I arrive 3.30pm tomorrow at Heathrow. Then bumble around the UK for a few weeks, then, if all the contract things go well I start with Nokia again later. In the meantime, I’ll be visiting people around the country – first stop Kent, then, probably, Cambridge/Huntingdon, perhaps with a […]