Weeding and Writing

I have been advised by CC, who is very sensible, to make my CD shorter. Somehow I have to weed out a track, to get the running time down to 45 minutes. That means I probably shouldn't put the Screaming song on it but perhaps that's a good thing- it'll give me more time to mix it. And since I wrote another new song last week (which is so miserable it makes me cry when I sing it), I have probably started writing the next album. I have to finish this one in the next 2 weeks because I've started booking a tour and will need it ready by October.I also have to write some sleeve notes, and I don't know what to write. I wish I could record them instead, actually, and just put that as a track at the end. I started writing something about dishwashers and car parking permits that turned into something else about guitars, then I rejected that and wrote something about birds (you'd be surprised by how they become Important in the suburbs. One guy I know has a shotgun to shoot magpies). You start imagining that their noises are words. And once, during a sleepless night, I heard a funny bird hooting: 'I wonder if that's an owl?'. 'Too-whit, too-woo', it replied, as tho' it had read a book about the noise owls are supposed to make.
Going to play at Diana's summer party in Norfolk this weekend. I have 2 sets of music prepared- happy songs in case it's raining, and reflective ones to sing if it's a beautiful moonlit night.