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3 A.M. on a Monday Morning

¦ dialling in from workstation ¦

08:31 GMT, Monday 12th November 2007. What a beautiful day. Ice cold, white frost on every surface, purple-blue dawn followed by luxuriant deep gold sunbeams painting the world in a happy light.

Woke up at 3 A.M., brewed a mug of tea, ascended into the Sky Bunker and got to work the current project of designing new Lovecraftian Gods and Monsters for Yellow Dawn. I took at break after 30 minutes, detrained from my ergonomic stool and lay down on the floor, on my Swiss backstretcher (looks like a Geiger-esque creation) and listened to music for 15 minutes.

Mounted my stool, switched off the tunes and dug out a file I'd not listened to for months: an hour-long extravaganga of Lovecraftian narrative with musical accompaniment creating moods worthy of the horror of the Mythos, called "The Fungi from Yuggoth".  As the first mystical chords came through the speakers mounted on my desk I was gripped by an intensity of nostalgia and emotion; I was taken back to February, this year, sitting in my old bedroom in Jesus Mound (Newcastle), facing the vast verdant bulk of Jesmond Dene, only recently starting to lay down text for the 2nd edition of Yellow Dawn, utterly in awe of Cthulhoid atmosphere being created around me by the narrative and musical score of this file... and blissfully happy from the awareness that I had several months of creative freedom ahead of me without needing to worry about finding work... now kneeling on my stool in the Sky Bunker, in November, with so many positive steps and changes taken place...I was totally overwhelmed... I listened to less than 30 seconds of it before switching it off. Bizarre.

Was back in bed by 4.30 A.M. Up again at 7, mug of tea and hot croissants with Jo downstairs, and then a lovely drive into Bath.

Djr