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Turned on the final of the Lakeside World Championship last night while we were having tea (Sunday, so chilli), and nearly turned it right off again as it looked like a bit of an embarrassing white washing, Martin Adams bein six sets to nill up against Phil Nixon. What a game though, glad we stayed watching. Good that Adams won after so long missing out ont he top title, but an amazing comeback to six all by Nixon. Now he's a contender, he'll have to get himself a better nickname than just "Nixy"...
The darts, and the following Three Musketeers that we also watched topped off a fairly fullsome weekend. Friday I was working again, and followed that with a rare night out in Gordon's with my Ushers, much heated debate did pass. I was not so diverted as to miss my train home though, made the nine, which was good as we had an early morning planned for the next day.
For christmas, we mostly asked for vouchers so we could buy some more furniture from John Lewis. We've needed a TV stand for a while, been making do with an old kitchen cupboard since we moved in, which is nearly three years now. We considered mounting the TV on the wall for ages, but it seems a bit too much disruption, so we thought we'd get the TV table to match our other furniture. Instead of heading to our nearest John Lewis at Bluewater, it's just as quick to go into London, so we did that and made a day of it.
Despite having settled on the TV cabinet about a year ago, within a few minutes of being in the shop we'd completely changed our minds, decided to spend twice as much money and buy this:
Seeing it on it's own, in stark contrast to the sleek lines of this web page (*ahem*), it's a bit farmhouse kitchen really, but in the flesh it looks good, and feels nice, and the storage will be handier, and the telly will go nicely on top of it. It will be a shame to have to brutally cut a whole in the back so as to stuff it with DVD players and the like, but HEY, it will nice nice to have everything tidied away... Eight to ten weeks for delivery unfortunately, but then I'll be BACK with real pictures, changing history, and denying we ever lived like this.
As well as the shopping, we headed back up to Stokey, to have lunch at our old favourite Il Bacio with Emma, and we also popped in our old local The Defoe and round to Emma's smashing new flat in a converted church.
It made a nice change to go into London at the weekend, and not have to race around going to work etc, we might do it again soon.
Saturday night we went down to the Harbour (the part of Folkestone) and went in The Harbour (the pub) and The Ship, both had really good live music on.
Rest of Sunday; shopping, visiting, housework, watching telly, and you're back at the start of this post.
Malice Box Quest is also actually live today, you can answer questions and start building up points towards the prize winning end game...
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A lovely party and top xmas album... it's something to do this Friday!
Almost guaranteed more star studded than the première of "Ali", and the smash hits christmas party combined...
Friday 14th December
The Bull and Gate, Kentish Town, in that London.
Admission £5. Doors 7:30 pm - late
Plus mince pies, party paraphernalia, and DJ Paul from that Track and Field spinning Christmas hits past and present, and maybe even future
STARRING:
THE LOVES' live show is a full on rock 'n roll assault, with occasional drunken outbursts, a heady mix of 70s new wave stomp mashed with the Phil Spector wall of sound. John Peel loves them and, having already recorded two Peel sessions this year, they are also scheduled to play at Peel Acres on Valentine's Day 2002.
THE WOUND-BE-GOODS. The return of the legendary el records popstars with their beguiling, sophisticated pop. Now featuring Pete Momtchiloff (Tallulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research) on guitar. New album 'Brief Lives' out on Fortuna POP! in 2002.
Plus Special Guest DARREN HANLON, he's Australian, you know, and we've flown him in from Sweden especially...
Also... wiaiwya has joined up with our American friends once more to bring you "50,000,000 elves fans can't be wrong", a transatlantic pop christmas, available in the uk by mail order only (£10 (incl p+p and a free poster) payable to wiaiwya, from 1 bankside, 10 brock lane, maidenhead, berkshire, sl6 1lp, uk... order early to avoid disappointment, etc etc etc)... it
includes all of the delights below, only in song form:
- menswear endowment "the loneliest snowman"
(along the lines of the lilac time, at closing time)
- seks bomba "double-o santa"
(pun-laden loungecore in a Bacharach stylee)
- mj hibbett and the validators "give us a kiss (for Christmas)"
(blustering charm laden sing along from Leicester's leonard cohen
antithesis)
- nixon "anorak christmas"
(cute swedish synth-pop-indie that'll have you spinning like a helicopter)
- the Rory McBrides "(we like) eggnog!"
(JTQ meets "tequila" from our england obsessed american cousins)
- Sool "spicing the christmas cake"
(1 minute 3 seconds of Bavarian waltz-time-bliss)
- the pines "chalet"
(gorgeous female fronted folk pop acoustica that actually smells of
snowflakes)
- velodrome 2000 "christmas sucks"
(joey ramone, pete Shelley, Joan jett and stephen pastel couldn't have done
better)
- the waistcoats "(i wish you could be more like) santa Claus"
(a sentiment we all agree on, and expressed as only a Dutch garage (as in
garage) group can)
- weevil "Coventry carol"
(like monks with a vocoder singing garage (as in UK))
- the professor "thank you"
(the professor thanks, among others, tuna belt... with words)
- the weisstronauts "silent night"
(yeah, right... like you can't guess... it rocks)
