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lprovenSpot the song lyric. I quoted it elsewhere recently.
It has been a weekend of unexpected pleasures. Friday I met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mr_flay, jfs, augeas, sneerpout, mr_tom, the lovely Laura WINOLJ and Tiffany (who is, but whose ID I didn't catch) and others in TPTMNBN. After this, many of us wandered off to "ROCK at Astoria 2Mean Fiddler" (definite articles, who needs 'em?), which we more or less stumbled across. £6 or £5 with a flyer, but helpfully, the bouncers on the door were handing out flyers. Very considerate of them. Ed and Giles are wusses but the rest of us stayed on 'til 3. It wasn't a great rock club but it was quite fun - a repeat visit is worth contemplating.
Saturday I rook myself off up to Cambridge forgroliffe¹ & Caro's party. (Happy birthday, Caro!) I was, in a shocking development, slightly late, but while in the local Coop buying some caffeine-free Coke as mixer for my rapidly-becoming-traditional party tipple of a bottle of bourbon, I was discovered by bugshaw and Barbara, who escorted me to the do. Good natter with coth and a briefer one with Brian, caught up wth esteemed hosts and other people I see all too infrequently, including Bug's other half major_clanger. Austin's been inviting me to parties up there for years and this is the first time I've gone. It was worth it.
Barbara woke me at 11:30 Sunday, distinctly bleary and sniffly due to a quite inordinate number of cats in the house. Certainly not the Jim Beam, perish the thought. I accepted her kind offer of a lift back to London, but alas, the traffic was our undoing; we got snarled up for a couple of hours, making me some 3h late for lunch in Beckton withjhaelan, a man of saintly patience. He had vegetarian fajitas ready to prepare, and damned fine they were too. This man knows how to wield a chili. I merely go for maximum pain, myself, James for the slow-building burn. Delicious. Some hours of pleasant natter followed, before a brisk hop down to Croydon for my habitual Sunday evening drinkie, where I was interrogated about Dublin. Will write about it soon, honest. Really I will.
Actually, mention of that reminds me of something. I think it's time for my first-ever poll...
¹ With profuse apologies for my forgetfulness.
It has been a weekend of unexpected pleasures. Friday I met up with
mr_flay, jfs, augeas, sneerpout, mr_tom, the lovely Laura WINOLJ and Tiffany (who is, but whose ID I didn't catch) and others in TPTMNBN. After this, many of us wandered off to "ROCK at Saturday I rook myself off up to Cambridge for
groliffe¹ & Caro's party. (Happy birthday, Caro!) I was, in a shocking development, slightly late, but while in the local Coop buying some caffeine-free Coke as mixer for my rapidly-becoming-traditional party tipple of a bottle of bourbon, I was discovered by bugshaw and Barbara, who escorted me to the do. Good natter with coth and a briefer one with Brian, caught up wth esteemed hosts and other people I see all too infrequently, including Bug's other half major_clanger. Austin's been inviting me to parties up there for years and this is the first time I've gone. It was worth it.Barbara woke me at 11:30 Sunday, distinctly bleary and sniffly due to a quite inordinate number of cats in the house. Certainly not the Jim Beam, perish the thought. I accepted her kind offer of a lift back to London, but alas, the traffic was our undoing; we got snarled up for a couple of hours, making me some 3h late for lunch in Beckton with
jhaelan, a man of saintly patience. He had vegetarian fajitas ready to prepare, and damned fine they were too. This man knows how to wield a chili. I merely go for maximum pain, myself, James for the slow-building burn. Delicious. Some hours of pleasant natter followed, before a brisk hop down to Croydon for my habitual Sunday evening drinkie, where I was interrogated about Dublin. Will write about it soon, honest. Really I will.Actually, mention of that reminds me of something. I think it's time for my first-ever poll...
¹ With profuse apologies for my forgetfulness.
