Catching up
I haven't realy got back in the swing of blogging since Egypt, I guess I was quite busy last week, but here goes
Didn't really do much last week, though I did find out that my mate Murray is coming through again, so that'll be fun. I just worked quite hard, acheiving in 4 days what I thought would take 9. I've never been good at estimates :)
Thursday night Jo and I had dinner and talked holidays, I bored her with my photos (which I haven't yet sorted into interesting vs personal ones)
Friday night I went out with Jo after seeing the film 'Constantine' and borrowing a guitar from Liam at work. I'll admit I wasn't really in the dancing mood, and did want to play my guitar, but I thought I'd better meet Jo's new friends Brad and, bugger I've forgotten his name.
So I went along to Loop bar and actually had a pretty good time - it wasn't insanely noisy, but was too crowded for me to get carried away dancing so I just did the rock sided to side stuff that everybody else does :) And Brad and co were really nice guys too, had some good chats.
Saturday I went to see 'the Machinist' then bought some guitar music, and then got my hair cut. This was all before heading off to Liam's birthday dinner at an Indian place near Old Street.
The dinner wasn't bad, though I paid for it the next day, but the pub we went to after was excellent. It was really mellow and not too loud and, after 3 hours chatting, I didn't emerge feeling that my throat was about to tear itself apart.
We then all headed to Alasdairs house warming, which was happening in Old Street too. By the time we got there it was winding down a bit, but it was good to meet some new people and we all stayed around for a good 2 hours.
It then took me a good 2 hours to get home! Sometimes busses can be VERY slow :)
Sunday I went over to Keith and Annes to have a big get together. Given the unpredictable nature of my bowls (due to the indian last night) this was quite an adventure, especially since there was a bus replacement for the trains which turned the journey into a 2 hour rigmarole.
I found out that my Great Aunt Vera had passed away on Saturday, which was bad news, but Keith seemed to be taking it quite well.
We had a marvelous lunch, and I had a great time chatting with Lucy and Coddie (?) who I found to have very similar views/outlooks/music taste to myself - probably the first person in England who does!
Finally I returned home and, feeling the worse for wear, did not go to see DownFall at the cinema. Instead I watched Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
Yesterday (Monday) went to work, and then off to see the short films at the Future Shorts show. I thought that they were going to get Mike Leigh in to chat about his short film 'A sense of history', but instead John Broadbent did. Ultimately this was probably better as Broadbent devised and performed the piece, but I would have liked to cross paths with Leigh because of his influence on my Mum (he directed her at MAC when she was a young-un)
phew - that's it!
Didn't really do much last week, though I did find out that my mate Murray is coming through again, so that'll be fun. I just worked quite hard, acheiving in 4 days what I thought would take 9. I've never been good at estimates :)
Thursday night Jo and I had dinner and talked holidays, I bored her with my photos (which I haven't yet sorted into interesting vs personal ones)
Friday night I went out with Jo after seeing the film 'Constantine' and borrowing a guitar from Liam at work. I'll admit I wasn't really in the dancing mood, and did want to play my guitar, but I thought I'd better meet Jo's new friends Brad and, bugger I've forgotten his name.
So I went along to Loop bar and actually had a pretty good time - it wasn't insanely noisy, but was too crowded for me to get carried away dancing so I just did the rock sided to side stuff that everybody else does :) And Brad and co were really nice guys too, had some good chats.
Saturday I went to see 'the Machinist' then bought some guitar music, and then got my hair cut. This was all before heading off to Liam's birthday dinner at an Indian place near Old Street.
The dinner wasn't bad, though I paid for it the next day, but the pub we went to after was excellent. It was really mellow and not too loud and, after 3 hours chatting, I didn't emerge feeling that my throat was about to tear itself apart.
We then all headed to Alasdairs house warming, which was happening in Old Street too. By the time we got there it was winding down a bit, but it was good to meet some new people and we all stayed around for a good 2 hours.
It then took me a good 2 hours to get home! Sometimes busses can be VERY slow :)
Sunday I went over to Keith and Annes to have a big get together. Given the unpredictable nature of my bowls (due to the indian last night) this was quite an adventure, especially since there was a bus replacement for the trains which turned the journey into a 2 hour rigmarole.
I found out that my Great Aunt Vera had passed away on Saturday, which was bad news, but Keith seemed to be taking it quite well.
We had a marvelous lunch, and I had a great time chatting with Lucy and Coddie (?) who I found to have very similar views/outlooks/music taste to myself - probably the first person in England who does!
Finally I returned home and, feeling the worse for wear, did not go to see DownFall at the cinema. Instead I watched Ran by Akira Kurosawa.
Yesterday (Monday) went to work, and then off to see the short films at the Future Shorts show. I thought that they were going to get Mike Leigh in to chat about his short film 'A sense of history', but instead John Broadbent did. Ultimately this was probably better as Broadbent devised and performed the piece, but I would have liked to cross paths with Leigh because of his influence on my Mum (he directed her at MAC when she was a young-un)
phew - that's it!
2 Comments:
And Mr Leigh used to drop in and have chats with Grandma.
so you've now seen Ran... what did you think? it's supposed to be AK's take on King Lear set in feudal Japan... I just thought it was epc and powerful. hence my reason for having it at home.... :-)
you are also a very busy man. talking of Japan, Matty wants to go there now. don't know why. let us know when you're heading in this direction and we'll see what's going on. maybe?
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