Monday afternoon

I'll do anything rather than prepare for this damn interview. I've looked up Chile, Isis and Horus, booked national express tickets, found out the national flower of Jamaica and even weeded the garden, but still I have to get excited about a job before Wednesday morning.

I picked up the free CD that had been left on the pub tables after the New Cross gig the other night - the first band I'd missed, blahblahblah!

They're brilliant - it was an EP (can you call a CD an EP?) and the first song was a foot-tapping tune about not being a wanker on the disco floor.

If you try looking for them online you come into problems though - the exclamation mark doesn't count when you're searching, and it's too generic an expression to make it searchable.

Just goes to show how the internet has indeed taken over our life. You'd probably have a similar handicap if you called yourselves The Clash these days.

Anyway, I did manage to find this - seeing as I'll have had my interview, I might even try and find someone to pop along to this with me.

Notting Hill Arts Club gig next Wednesday

Despite the grind, I haven't had the urge to smoke, and even when Linds popped round and we had coffee and sandwiches and cake, I still didn't smoke and neither did she. Is this a first or did she just not have any tobacco?

The picture is of the flower of the Lignum Vitae tree. It's the national flower of Jamaica (see above) and it blooms on the Lignum Vitae tree. The wood of the Lignum Vitae tree is the hardest in the world. It's so hard it sinks in water and it has been used to make police truncheons. This we now know because I indulged Linds who mentioned wanting some wooden candlesticks, and once you get looking online, it can be hard to stop.

The Lignum Vitae is also known as the "Tree of Life", and while I realise that I've posted it twice, I think it looks so fresh, I'll leave it doubled up.