Author: jane

It’s been a lovely, sunny day today and it was really great to get a text message from Jeremy to say that he and Kirsty were going to head down to the beach for a barbeque and did we want to join them. We’d already got some food sorted out as we’d planned to have one over the weekend anyways, and so we went and joined them and we spent a very pleasant afternoon feasting ourselves on chicken wings, sausages, lamb kebabs etc whilst drinking a couple of beers. Just what Sunday afternoons are made for.

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On Friday evening we went on a bit of a pub crawl as Susie’s leaving do. But this was no ordinary pub crawl – we played pub golf. We had a 9 pub golf course and we had a set drink and amount to do in every pub. To make par we had to drink what was on the card. To get a birdie we had to drink double the quantity, an eagle was double the quantity and a single spirit, an albatross was double the quantity and a double spirit and a hole in one was an albatross downed in one!

Our course and drinks were:

• The Grand Hotel – Long Island Ice Tea or other cocktail – Par 3
• The Walkabout Lodge – Pint – Par 5
• The Fiddlers Elbow – Half – Par 4
• The Cricketers – Half – Par 4
• The Bath Arms – Pint – Par 5
• The Font and Firkin – Half – Par 3
• The Victory – Half – Par 4
• The Western Front – Half – Par 3
• Weatherspoons – Pint – Par 5

We only got as far as the Western Front by closing time, so both Weatherspoons and the club House (The Grand Hotel again) were missed out on. Not a great shame really as we’d all had quite enough to drink by then. Don’t forget to take a look at the photos.

The Moby tickets arrived this morning, I’m amazed. Now all I have to do is keep them somewhere safe for the next 6 or so months!

In the last week or so there have been some gardeners doing some work near Babylon Lounge. They’ve planted a load of plants in the flowerbeds near the footpath/cycle lane. Tonight, as I was cycling home, I watched a lady dig one of them out and put it in a plastic bag. Strange!

We’ve gained an office toy! Susie leaves us tomorrow to head back to New Zealand, and whilst she was in London the other day she stopped off at the New Zealand shop. She brought us a packet of Minties and a wind-up Kiwi. He’s currently sitting on my desk, hopping around every now and again and staring at the unopened pack of Minties. Thanks Suz!

When I ordered the Moby tickets, I decided to save the extra £1.25 and collect them from the box office. Only then did I remember that by November I’ll have changed my name and will have to go through a bit of a performance to prove that the tickets are really mine (Ticketmaster require you to have the purchasers credit card and the reference number as proof). And as I could only collect the tickets on the day, this didn’t give me much “proving I’m really me” time. So, I’ve arranged to have them posted to me instead with the hope that this will work out easier.

Woohoo! I’ve just bought us some tickets to go and see Moby when he’s in the UK in November.

One day last week Susie was complaining about being hungry and wanting lunch. It was 10am. We sent her over the road to our local greasy spoon to get a bacon buttie. She returned with sandwiches for all, and my bacon and mushroom sarnie was lovely and possibly one of the best I’ve ever had. Today, the weather is horrid (raining and windy and generally yuck) and we needed comfort food, and so we had bacon sandwiches for lunch. I was going to miss this and stick to the lunch I’d brought with me, but then realised that I couldn’t sit in an office with 3 people eating lovely, lardy, bacon butties. So, I gave in.

We went to see Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones last night. This is a much darker story than The Phantom Menace and despite what the first trailer implied, it’s not all a love story. Phew! I was dissapointed that the annoying Jar Jar Binks is still alive and wasn’t killed off but he doesn’t have much screen time and I guess I should be grateful for small mercies. Natalie Portman (as Senator Amidala) takes on an almost Lara Croft role with cropped tops and guns, and Yoda, with the help of CGI, walks. It kept me amused and entertained but it doesn’t feel “complete”, which I guess it isn’t, whilst you are watching it you know that this is a passage to get us to where we were at the start of the original Star Wars films.

Will we go and see the third one? Of course. We’ve invested too much time and effort into the Star Wars films to not go and complete the story. Will we buy this one on DVD? Well, only if the original series gets relaunched and we need it to make up the set.