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#IIW

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Teething Problems at Starbucks, or ….

Super Dooper new one opens, you know the kind - with the beer, wine and couches. BUT a few teething problems …

Used the phone to redeem my free drink - which they managed to take off and charge me for … I know that because they wanted more money than I had stored … took the manager to resolve that one.

As they gave me the drink, the barista sneezed all over the cup. No ‘sorry’. No ‘excuse me’. No, ‘let me get you a fresh one’. They did after I asked.

Which I returned after I sat down, since it was a Mocha, not a Latte.

Meanwhile - the locals are settling in … looks like a table to me … but it is obviously confused with a foot stool.

Note to self - don’t eat off this table … If I come back.

Do Floors Talk To You?

Just looking down at a floor today and these faces started looking back at me …

... I see the profile of an Eskimo.
... A bug eyed head (ET?) staring out from a hooded blanket.
... A woman hiding behind a door, one eye (heavily made up) peering around the corner.
.. A seal, dog (?) swimming ... head above the water.

Those samples must have been great. Or do you think I should have taken the books?

Confused?

This particular ‘ToGo’ is Going - maybe the writing was on the wall as well as the door!

Differences In Similarities

One Of The Masters

Not QUITE sure what they are trying to achieve here. Anyone? Anyone?

🎵 The Guy On The Left - Mick Moody, ex Whitesnake. The Guy On The Right - Harmonica player Alan Glen, ex Yardbirds and countless others.

The occasion?

A very private session in the English Countryside. Sometimes the best way to see music.

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Not quite sure what the message is - but certainly memorable …

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Sadly no longer The Morland Brewery - but the conversion to living accommodation seems to have worked.

Keith Emerson immortalized Tyne Side’s ‘Five Bridges’ in 1970. I wonder if he first practiced on Three?

“Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the Side road there was” …

They are obviously invisible and/or not very good.

🎵 I like to think of these albums as ‘perfectly formed nougats of beauty’ … not saying they are … it’s just how I like to think of them. 🎶

🎵 It was more a collective than a band per se