Long weekend
Apr. 14th, 2004 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietThe main non-fun feature of the weekend was Pete & I successfully tidying, not to mention cleaning, the entire house (well, the kitchen floor still needs doing: this is Pete's job). It looks much *bigger* now, particularly the study (we put vast quantities of stuff either in the bin or the attic, & now you can see the floor). I approve.
But! there was also much fun. Friday night was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
martling's birthday, which he helpfully celebrated at the George - most convenient. There was beer, & pizza at Pizza Express (in shifts), then the discovery on return to the George that it was a virtual Sunday & thus no more beer. So we returned to Pizza Express where they gave us more wine. Nice to see many assorted people, including j4 whom I didn't know was in London & haven't seen in ages. After Pizza Express we returned to marnameow & sbp's house, & stayed up until an utterly ridiculous time in the morning. Whoops. Much fun though :-)
Saturday was much less pleasant - I had a sick headache (don't *think* it was alcohol-related, as I didn't drink that much; I do get them occasionally). Slept most of the afternoon, then managed to do a little more Useful Stuff before watching Faust.
Sunday was mostly the london.crafts meet atmarnameow's. During which I realised that I was *very nearly* finished kitty_goth's jumper, and therefore knitted for about 10 hours straight (I get a bit obsessive towards the end of any given project). As ever as l.crafts, splendid company, & then later there was cheap Chinese, & booze, & suchlike. And the plotting of picnic! Which duly occurred the next day, & was fun. Decent turnout - I have pictures, but haven't yet snarfed them off the camera - & we successfully avoided getting rained on (by adjourning to the pub at *just* the right moment before it started spitting). And Pete & I went to visit the graves of Shana, Kali, & Holly, rats of ours all of whom are buried (illicitly) in Hyde Park.
kitty_goth got back from Brussels late that evening, so I went to meet him at Waterloo, & was able to give him the Shiny New Jumper. Which fits him, & everything. I think the sleeves are slightly too long, but he insists that they're fine & he doesn't want me to shorten them, so there we go. Long sleeves are nice, anyway, they're useful for hiding your hands when it's cold.
Back to work yesterday & today, though I now have only 8 working days left at the League... gosh. Was intending to go to the Bisexual Underground last night, but due to pub-refurbishment complications it got cancelled, bah. However! The lovelykitty_goth & I successfully recruited djm, valkyriekaren, d_floorlandmine, & katstevens to the Blue Posts, so fun was had anyway.
It is good cycling weather again - cycled home from the pub in my shirt sleeves, and it's just the right temperature. Pleasantly cool. I like spring.
But! there was also much fun. Friday night was
martling's birthday, which he helpfully celebrated at the George - most convenient. There was beer, & pizza at Pizza Express (in shifts), then the discovery on return to the George that it was a virtual Sunday & thus no more beer. So we returned to Pizza Express where they gave us more wine. Nice to see many assorted people, including j4 whom I didn't know was in London & haven't seen in ages. After Pizza Express we returned to marnameow & sbp's house, & stayed up until an utterly ridiculous time in the morning. Whoops. Much fun though :-) Saturday was much less pleasant - I had a sick headache (don't *think* it was alcohol-related, as I didn't drink that much; I do get them occasionally). Slept most of the afternoon, then managed to do a little more Useful Stuff before watching Faust.
Sunday was mostly the london.crafts meet at
marnameow's. During which I realised that I was *very nearly* finished kitty_goth's jumper, and therefore knitted for about 10 hours straight (I get a bit obsessive towards the end of any given project). As ever as l.crafts, splendid company, & then later there was cheap Chinese, & booze, & suchlike. And the plotting of picnic! Which duly occurred the next day, & was fun. Decent turnout - I have pictures, but haven't yet snarfed them off the camera - & we successfully avoided getting rained on (by adjourning to the pub at *just* the right moment before it started spitting). And Pete & I went to visit the graves of Shana, Kali, & Holly, rats of ours all of whom are buried (illicitly) in Hyde Park. kitty_goth got back from Brussels late that evening, so I went to meet him at Waterloo, & was able to give him the Shiny New Jumper. Which fits him, & everything. I think the sleeves are slightly too long, but he insists that they're fine & he doesn't want me to shorten them, so there we go. Long sleeves are nice, anyway, they're useful for hiding your hands when it's cold. Back to work yesterday & today, though I now have only 8 working days left at the League... gosh. Was intending to go to the Bisexual Underground last night, but due to pub-refurbishment complications it got cancelled, bah. However! The lovely
kitty_goth & I successfully recruited djm, valkyriekaren, d_floorlandmine, & katstevens to the Blue Posts, so fun was had anyway. It is good cycling weather again - cycled home from the pub in my shirt sleeves, and it's just the right temperature. Pleasantly cool. I like spring.
