New photo shoot with Mike Callow in the north-west. Think maybe we got something quite special this time. We have decided to print the collected on-line diaries in paperback form for the Spring UK dates, to sell as merchandise.

Maybe one of those pix is the front cover. Got a couple of Mick Rock's from New York to consider, too. What to call the book?

160 pages going back to 2000, right up to date (well, up to end March, say, when the printer needs final copy).

To Bruges by Eurostar via Brussels for a couple of days for a Press Conference re Hans Peter's "Sebastian" release. It will be released in April, not "La Costa Di Amalfi", which will follow in the summer. TV crews, radio and magazines set up in the lounge bar of the magnificent Hotel De Tuilerieen, where I have a suite overlooking a canal and mediaeval buildings. The old city is astonishingly beautiful. And the canals don't smell, as they often do in other places. Ate at 3-Michelin Star restaurant De Karmeliet. Chef Geert gave us a copy, in English, of his cookery book; and the paintings, his own collection of mostly Flemish impressionism, around the place were as stunning to view close up as his food was to eat. The hotel tipped them off that it was my birthday. Who tipped the hotel off is a mystery to us (my travel agent is in the frame, right up front). A choco "Congratulations" confection came in lieu of sweet which I never order. People are kind. And I'll be back to Bruges, maybe, hopefully, to play a concert with HP next Spring. That'll be an interesting one. A real adventure. Many cards via Comeuppance Ltd. address. Handed to me when I got back. Thank you.

SH