Hello all, its been a while I know. I have been shunning all forms of online interaction for quite some time now, no Twittering (or Tweeting as the vernacular seems to be - see thats how long I have been away from it), no Facebook updates, few emails sent, no blogging, and only a couple of phone calls now and then.
Its not because I don't want to contact anyone, quite the opposite, I would love to catch up with everyone all the time and therein lies my problem. It is all just so tiring. Its a full time job updating everything all the time, posting about how we have done this, about why that taxi driver should be watched carefully or what a painfully long but unspectacular train journey home I have had, or about what we had for dinner last night, and I am quite sure that for the most part, you aren't interested in any of it anyway, so I have put a digital gag on myself.
So why the break in silence now? Well, I recently went to see Roger Waters play his The Wall album in its entirety at the O2 arena and it seemed rather fitting that if I were to break my self imposed super-injunction aimed at me (what a load of nonsense that all is, but we wont get into that here), that it was to report about what an amazing event it was. I was expecting to enjoy it because I love the music, but lets face it, like so many other ageing rock bands that go on a farewell tour, I was expecting it to be an "evening with", a bunch of old men sitting on a stage playing through their famous hits, the crowd enjoying the opportunity to see their childhood hero etc etc. Instead what we got was an extremely polished event that was as close to the movie version of the album as could be. Roger Waters performance was outstanding and the sets and light show were far superior to anything I have seen in any other concert. I leant over to my sister half way through and exclaimed that this was quite possibly one of the best, if not the best concert I had ever been to. She agreed.
I wont go on and on, but it was a great evening and also my first visit to the O2 arena, which had so much more going on than I thought. I was quite impressed.
Anyway, that is quite enough from me, Ill go back to my silence from now. Ill catch you all later, and if this post is anything to go by that might be some time...
Of course the other reason for the title of this post is that we will soon be walking along the Great Wall of China. I may be inclined to blog more often about our travels, but then again I may not (and who knows what China will let me talk about anyway!).
