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Feb27
Feeling fresher today just about, let me get my gripe of the day out of the way first though. Today's train had the most annoying conductor on it, he just LOVED the sound of his own voice and I think he thought he was Bruce Forsyth, he announced everything every few minutes and repeated it several times in a new order
"This train calls at Folkestone West, Sandling, Westenhanger, Ashford International, Ashford International, Westenhanger, Sandling, Folkestone West this train calls at, good game, good game", "A trolley service is available, available a trolley service is, alright my loves?" "Do you want to beat me to death yet, beat me to death yet do you?"
The little rolling screens and gentle feminine voiced announcements haven't worked properly on those trains for months, wish they'd just fix them. Right, anyone who's still there WELL DONE, on to tales of the weekend... Emma came down to stay, so Friday night was spent just catching up and watching TV (including Curse of the Were-Rabbit), but Saturday turned into a proper session. Chambers for lunch, then back there for the evening, several pints and then back to ours for darts, pool, dancing, everything. OK no actual dancing I don't think, but I'd imagine the neighbours weren't loving us in the early hours. Great weekend, just slobbed all day Sunday with hangovers and tiredness. Great chilli for tea, including for the first time home made tortilla chips.
A couple of stories from The Currant Bun of all places, something or other about the nme awards here, not that they're fixed (as godlike genius is not voted by the readers) but that it's not just decided by the godlike geniusness of the recipient. Don't suppose they'll have to pull this one like that Londonist blogging site did. Also, George Michaels what have you been up to? See also all the other papers... We're buying The Telegraph this week, there's some sort of Eurostar offer going on. They do have an article about Avril Lavigne though;
My old songs just felt so dark. I was like, I'm not feeling this any more
Hmm yes, Sk8r Boi could have been straight off The Holy Bible dear... Trying out some new styling on the blog, so while that little quote paragraph (just [ quote ] [ /quote ] BBCode style) is currently just italics, I'm going to have a go at making it work like the pullquotes on sites like www.onionbagblog.com. Stay tuned!
Rah, my phone is found again! I'm not going to bother collecting it just yet though, just like David Seaman's skating partner it's probably relishing the rest.
Been a quiet week on the site, but then I had a load of messages left at the weekend, which is nice - if you're out there, leave a message just to say hi.
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Apr7
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A very nice review of Hotel Relish here from The Times... good they found a nice restaurant! Friends of mine stayed there too and loved it.
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Feb22
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GREAT weekend, which I will come back to as it's time to do some work. Bit cold, but very nice to see Clare's bro who was visiting from the Americas. He and his wife and their little dog live and work in Miami, and don't get to visit that often so we had an extra long weekend to hang out with him.
Much nice eating and drinking over the weekend with family and friends, we had a curry last night in The New Delhi, not bad, not all that hot, but we were a table of 12. They want some plate warmers, that's what they want. We also squeezed in drinks in Gate 28 and Chambers. Picked up a new copy of The Quarter, which reminded me that I forgot to submit a bar revue this month... it seems to have got a bit worse without my involvement so I will have to get back there, give it more of the common touch and less of everything else. This month they have a page explaining how almost no-one entered their quiz, and then a two page review of the quiz from people who did bother to enter it. Someone, please, submit them some content before it disappears up it's own Old High Street... Straying a bit from the topic here, but VERY pleased to have not been in Chambers when someone DONE A POO IN THE URINAL. How grim is that? Got a phone call from Clare's other bro saying he was in there and we'll never guess what's happened. Normally it's nicer than that.
Apart from the eating and drinking we had a look around some hotels, and did some painting. The Hotel Relish was every bit as smart as I thought it'd be from what I've heard and I will recommend it to visiting wedding guests... I say we did some painting, but all we really managed to do was cover the floor with dust sheets and do one wall of white undercoat. It's going to be a bigger job than we thought, so I've managed to talk Clare out of starting the next room until this is all finished.
Unfortunately we weren't snowed in, and we didn't win the lottery, so we were back into work on the early train this morning. Bit too early technically, as the trains were delayed so while we got the train at the normal time, it was the earlier service, which our tickets weren't valid on. Are you still with me? We didn't get grabbed and made to buy new tickets, and we were in work normal time. Well, I was in work, Clare has another day off. I did have a slight issue with my ticket not going through the barrier, but no idea what that was. The inspector said I was just out of date, but it was a five day Network Awaybreak bought on Friday, so I think I was OK, pointed this out, and he let me through... when we have season tickets we'll have none of these worries. We'll each be 350 quid a month worse of, BUT we'll always have the right ticket.
650 emails waiting for me today, that's after 2000 have been filtered out as spam. Even my Gmail account has quite a few, so a morning of catching up is in order. I am The IT Department today though, as regular IT guy is on holiday. If this necessitates anything more than changing the backup tape, I'll be putting in for time and a half though...
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