Lunch With Tim III

With paid work and various updating obligations having been discharged earlier than expected, via the magic of Twitter I was able to hook up with occasional lunch-buddy (like a fuck buddy but without the cigarette afterwards), Tim.

The light was strange for the second day running - luminous and almost overwhelming in some spots, whilst slowly haemorrhaging away to darkness in others.



The arrival of the Timtank meant it was time to put away the camera and get on board. Yep , Tim and Sid are Silverlink bound.

Tim was heading up to Borders to secure items in advance of his grandbairns' party at the weekend. I was on a mission to get some replacement knobs for our cooker.

Yep, it’s all rock n’ roll life style on this blog!

For those interested in such details, in-flight music was the live Joni Mitchell album, Shadows And Light.

Since we last had lunch I've been to London a couple of times and Tim has been, well just about everywhere. Most recently Paris. It was great hearing the excitement in his voice about trawling round galleries ("that one that used to be a railway station") and admiring the pluck, vim and vigour of painters in the early 20th Century.

Once at Silverlink we parted company to go about our respective quests, eventually meeting back up in the Starbucks at Borders.


Tim came with a present for me!

Watch out Gavin and Pat!

A discussion about our TV / Movie watching habits as we sipped and slurped. The short version of which is that we tend to like the short version of things. About 45 - 60 minutes is about my maximum length of concentration for a TV show.

Though we didn't discuss it, I reckon about anywhere between 35 - 45 minutes is the optimum length for an album.

Back in the Timtank we head in the direction of Whitley Bay via the bit of road that runs alongside Hollywell Dene. There were some stunning looking clouds making themselves available for a photoshoot, and Tim obligingly pulled over to let me get a few snaps...