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[juliet]

Pete got back from Florida Saturday morning, hurrah. Although I did rather enjoy having the house to myself for a week. Not that I *did* all that much with the Glorious Freedom (other than have kitty_goth & shadow_jess, variously, round to mine instead of going round to theirs), but it was nice anyway.

Fairly quiet week - saw the above-mentioned, went round to marnameow's a couple of times (for knitting/ranting/watching sillly TV, variously). Vet-stuff previously mentioned on Friday night which was not good, obviously. We buried Storm in the garden yesterday afternoon.

However, the weekend other than that was good. Went to Manna with kitty_goth on Saturday evening. Manna is fantastic. I had something that called itself a salad but was more like lots of different sorts of mezze - fried breaded tofu, bean salad thing, potatoes in (vegan) mayo, assorted veg inc artichoke hearts & green beans & avocado, sun-dried tomatos, handful of other nice things, with some green leaves on top. Very filling indeed, & couldn't face pudding after that (though they didn't have the vegan cheesecake this time, so this wasn't an utter disaster :-) ) Wound up watching Night Of The Living Dead back at St P with Kitty & bootpunk, which was fun. V fine evening all round.

Then yesterday evening assorted of my mates from college came out to the George. This was a Good Thing as I haven't seen them for quite a while. Among other things, we discussed the concept of Darth Vader as a pensioner (pottering round the Death Star in slippers, tending his herbaceous borders & trimming the roses with his light sabre); and decided that when Mike becomes Mayor of London, he will move the entire City into Canary Wharf, put *really big walls* around it to keep everyone in, & give Stevie lasers mounted on top of the walls to make sure they stay there. Stevie liked this plan. Plus Oxford Street will be turned into a nice park (idea pinched from Pete & marnameow.

Only 2 days of work this week, hurrah. Sadly, it appears that there are about 5 consultations that I have to draft submissions for before then. Ho hum. But then Whitby, which should be - interesting, at least.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Wow, that Manna place looks great - must try it sometime.

Looking forward to seeing you at Whitby!

[juliet]

Manna is truly fantastic. I've been there several times with non-veggies, & they've thoroughly enjoyed it & not felt the lack of meat at all. Obviously, for me it is *particularly* ace as I actually get a *choice* of things to eat! Thus leading to paralysing indecision as I have entirely lost the ability to make choices from a menu these days due to lack of practice...

Hungry now. Bother. ;-)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I had a shepherds pie made with lentils instead of meat t'other day, and didn't even realise until about 3 mouthfuls through. When I realised I felt rippped off and then simply confused. I want to make a shepherds pie today.

Re: Whitby - har har. I dread to think what LJ is going to be like once everyone comes back. Apparently it's the Crouch End of the north, do enjoy the upmarket F&C - although if there's anywhere as upmarket as the Sea Cow in East Dulwich I'll be shocked.