About Time

We started the day with a trip to M&S at The Meadows. It was the first time for a clothes shopping trip since before the pandemic. We have a wedding to attend next month and our wardrobes were looking a bit empty of finery. Mr Flossmo was in a 'why are we buying new clothes for a stupid wedding' mood but we managed to find him a smart pair of trousers to match his newly dry-cleaned jacket. After that he retired to the M&S cafe. I then managed to find a pair of very smart cream trousers and a cream blouse to go with my newly dry-cleaned jacket. I expect we will pass muster, just about. It does seem a bit crazy to be buying clothes we will seldom wear but we can hardly turn up in our post-pandemic jeans and sweatshirts. Let's hope for more weddings and not funerals. 

Evening saw me drive over to Guildford for The UK Pink Floyd Experience (UKPFE) at GLive. Apparently there is also an Australian one and a Canadian one as well as Brit Floyd and Beyond the Dark Side to name but a few. The man sitting next to me seemed to be a connoisseur and said there were better tribute bands than UKPFE. No matter, they gave a good show with lots of great music.

They played some of my favourite tracks including Time with that fantastic two and a half minute instrumental introduction and the classic lines:

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Those lines always make me think.

I arrived at GLive with plenty of time to spare so took a walk down the upper High Street. I first washed up in Guildford in 1976 when I arrived from Wales to study at the University. I have never lived in Guildford since but always within easy reach. In the intervening years the town has become more and more aspirational although even Guildford has its empty shops, now. Nevertheless it seems able to support an up market Gallery - see extras for a couple of items from the window display, each a cool few grand to you, ma'am.  The last extra is the Guildford High Street Guildhall Clock; one of the few enduring symbols of the town, proudly telling the time since 1683.