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Friday evening I was monumentally lazy & spent the evening on the sofa with Pete, watching "Bend It Like Beckham", which was ace, & eating takeout Chinese. Hurrah. Sofa-based evenings are a Good Thing, at least in moderation.

Saturday started late (whoops), but we managed to motivate ourselves out to Queensway, where I got a Mother's Day present for my mum (book), a Flashman book for me (Flashman rocks), & some vodka for me & anyone who comes round wishing to drink it. Pete got whisky. Wandered back through the park, attempting en route to sort out evening stuff with wintrmute via mobile. Considerations of time, location & food led to the decision that Toby would come round & I'd cook dinner, & we'd think about the rest of the evening after that.

Happily, matters were taken out of our somewhat indecisive hands courtesy of a text from beingjdc enquiring whether I might like to go clubbing. Yes indeed. So Toby, Pete & I headed off to Stay Beautiful, there to meet up with the lovely John once he made it down from Oxford. Have not been to SB before but thoroughly enjoyed. I like clubs where I can dress up in going-out clothes (boots & red fishnets, hurrah!), I like clubs where there are lots of pretty people in pretty clothes for me to eye up, I like clubs which play my sort of music, & I especially like clubs where all of the above are true. Expensive booze, though, bah. Top evening all round - spent about half of it squished onto sofa with Toby, Pete, John, & Bryony, & the other half jumping up & down to the cool music. Yay. (bus journey home, & more specifically trek to bus stop, less fun, but we shall draw a veil over this).

Today I dragged myself out of bed at midday to cook fryup. Veggie sausages (Sosmix - good stuff), fried potatoes, mushrooms, & beans. Mmm. Then off to Highbury to visit my sister, who had Mum & Dad round. Failed to fix her computer, as a result of which I now have a pile of her CDs & her new MP3 player to rip one onto the other before Thursday. Currently waiting for dinner, having spent evening sorting out laundry loads, fathoming working of MP3 player, & writing review of restaurant visited on Thursday for Grubstreet. Tired now.

A request: As per above, my sister's computer has broken down (my technical opinion was "it's buggered" - erratic booting has given way to no booting at all, nor any connection to monitor or booting-attempting sounds). She is pretty broke, & is unsure how she's going to get hold of a replacement. Anyone out there with an old box that needs a home (the last one was a Celeron chip, 32MB RAM, so that sort of old), possibly in exchange for beer tokens to some value?

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Friday evening I was monumentally lazy & spent the evening on the sofa with Pete, watching "Bend It Like Beckham", which was ace, & eating takeout Chinese. Hurrah. Sofa-based evenings are a Good Thing, at least in moderation.

Saturday started late (whoops), but we managed to motivate ourselves out to Queensway, where I got a Mother's Day present for my mum (book), a Flashman book for me (Flashman rocks), & some vodka for me & anyone who comes round wishing to drink it. Pete got whisky. Wandered back through the park, attempting en route to sort out evening stuff with wintrmute via mobile. Considerations of time, location & food led to the decision that Toby would come round & I'd cook dinner, & we'd think about the rest of the evening after that.

Happily, matters were taken out of our somewhat indecisive hands courtesy of a text from beingjdc enquiring whether I might like to go clubbing. Yes indeed. So Toby, Pete & I headed off to Stay Beautiful, there to meet up with the lovely John once he made it down from Oxford. Have not been to SB before but thoroughly enjoyed. I like clubs where I can dress up in going-out clothes (boots & red fishnets, hurrah!), I like clubs where there are lots of pretty people in pretty clothes for me to eye up, I like clubs which play my sort of music, & I especially like clubs where all of the above are true. Expensive booze, though, bah. Top evening all round - spent about half of it squished onto sofa with Toby, Pete, John, & Bryony, & the other half jumping up & down to the cool music. Yay. (bus journey home, & more specifically trek to bus stop, less fun, but we shall draw a veil over this).

Today I dragged myself out of bed at midday to cook fryup. Veggie sausages (Sosmix - good stuff), fried potatoes, mushrooms, & beans. Mmm. Then off to Highbury to visit my sister, who had Mum & Dad round. Failed to fix her computer, as a result of which I now have a pile of her CDs & her new MP3 player to rip one onto the other before Thursday. Currently waiting for dinner, having spent evening sorting out laundry loads, fathoming working of MP3 player, & writing review of restaurant visited on Thursday for Grubstreet. Tired now.

A request: As per above, my sister's computer has broken down (my technical opinion was "it's buggered" - erratic booting has given way to no booting at all, nor any connection to monitor or booting-attempting sounds). She is pretty broke, & is unsure how she's going to get hold of a replacement. Anyone out there with an old box that needs a home (the last one was a Celeron chip, 32MB RAM, so that sort of old), possibly in exchange for beer tokens to some value?