Why blog?

This blog is mainly for me. I enjoyed doing the round the world blog and just recently looking back at it brought back some great memories. More critically I had a scary moment when trying to fill in my tax return for our first year back in the UK and I couldnt remember for the life of me what I had done. Twelve whole months! I was pretty sure I hadn't had a paying job but what else did I have to show for it - no great american novel, no home extension, no meteoric rise to political power. Two years later it makes a lot more sense. Having worked full time (and more) for 10 months in 2010 I was back dong nothing in particular and once again time flies with never enough to do all things I'd like to do.

The other reason is that much of what I (we) like to do is going to music gigs and movies so this is a place to share and keep track of stuff we enjoyed or mean to see if time and chance allow.

So here goes .....