WIDATW

[j4]

At the weekend I went to London and Oxford and there were lots of nice people and lots of shiny things like BEER and BOOTS and CATS. And there was lots of rain and it was wet and muddy. I stayed in August's house and it is very yellow but it has a BEER FRIDGE.


And now in grown-up (well, mostly):

B-Movie was good, though I'd have liked some bouncier music. Thank you to marnameow and sbp for letting us stay at their place, and for lovely scrambled eggs in the morning. Mmmm. :-) hoiho and I spent the rest of Saturday shopping in Camden, and managed not to buy too many things... and neither of us bought any shoes! This must be some kind of record. Got back to Oxford in time for dinner at Ask, leaving my car at Oxford station so that we could both drink with the meal. Taxi back to hoiho's place (which is indeed very yellow, but rather fab, and right next to the river).

On Sunday it RAINED, and then it RAINED some more. We'd agreed to walk in to town to pick up my car, and when we set out it wasn't raining... and this lasted for about 10 minutes. By the time we got anywhere near civilisation I was drenched (and miserable because my shoes were filling up with water and my woolen coat weighed a soggy ton!). Sorry hoiho for being such a whiney badger, though. Next time I will just bring wellies, and not whinge about the water!

Once we'd got the car we drove over to Argos to buy house essentials (bookcase, mugs, mirror, etc.) for hoiho, and then on to Chris's house to drop off a monitor and some cables, and borrow a towel to try to dry off a bit. Though I felt really guilty for whinging about being so wet when we realised that Chris was recovering from an operation, and he and his household were in the throes of electrical woes that had left them potentially without power for a week. They all seemed cheerful enough about the situation though, and we helped them to eat the home-made ginger ice-cream (by that point, about the consistency of milkshake) from the rapidly-defrosting freezer.

I was sorely tempted to stay over at hoiho's on Sunday night and do the drive back on Monday morning, but was persuaded that this was silly. So instead I had a tiring drive back in the dark after tea... which probably was more sensible really but it didn't feel much like it when I was struggling to stay awake most of the way from Milton Keynes to Cambridge. Sigh. I wish they'd hurry up and invent wormholes, or some sort of instantaneous matter transportation. Or even just something quicker than driving... it's 2004, dammit, where's my flying car?

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see, sorry. Good grief, that sounds like a hectic schedule! Is there no way you can get out of your "family occasion"? :-/

I'm not sure I'll be free 22nd/23rd, as that will probably be sion_a's birthday party. I don't have much booked up in June yet... except two orchestra concerts on the w/e of the 13th, and Glastonbury at the end of June. Oh, that's half of June's weekends, isn't it... <sigh> I want more weekend in the week, please!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to start booking out 'occasions' that I can tell everyone else about so they don't schedule things then (but really they'll be weekends spent in bed/lazing around). Let's see, I'll take the third weekend in September, and the fourth in July, and...

The family occasion is not really one I can get out of - for starters it's being hosted by an uncle who is giving us a lot of useful passed-down stuff for smallclanger and I don't want to offend him. And it does mean that for a change I'll actually get to see my entire immediate family on my birthday (which hasn't happened in at least 15 years). I am just grumping about it because, well, I feel I ought to. My protest should be noted, that kind of thing. I'll probably enjoy it perfectly well when I'm there.

May Bank Holiday weekend we're probably here but doing things in the garden. If keeping smallclanger out of the way of secateurs and mallets appeals to you you are more than welcome to come and be Distracteuse No.1. :-)