Weekend report

Super weekend, starting with The Mighty Boosh at the LCH, funny, good, we felt a bit old though, they do attract a young audience, lots of whom were dressed up. I maybe enjoyed the show a bit more than my companions, though it did feel a bit like a cobbled together string of all the funny characters from the show. It felt like that because it was that, like the TV show and the radio show before it. A few drinks after this in The Clifton, and then home to our massive telly - sorry no pictures of the telly yet, not done much computering over the weekend.

Slightly sleepless night, but only slightly. I realised quite late on that I'd left my bag in the bro-in-law's car, and he'd left his car by the Leas Cliff Hall. Every week The Herald seems to be full of car crime, because nothing else happens in the area, but it's a good feeling to know that no-one had put his side window in.

Saturday saw a haircut, then a bus ride to The Jackdaw for a splendid lunch, slightly hungover, but the food there sorted that out. Made a reservation for next weekend when the family are visiting, looking forward to that. Shopped a bit on our return, and achieved a few more of our planned chores; got a new office chair, booked someone to fit some swish new blinds in the flat, and something else that we STILL can't remember - we had a mental list of five items to tick off. Cooked a mighty Mexican feast for tea (nearly lost a thumb in preparation of a particularly tricky avocado though, necessitating a pale sitting down for a while for me, while Clare finished everything off. Played some cards and watched Phttp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BKTB3Q/clarkeology-21# Pride and Prejudice, the new one. It's got Keira Knightley in it, but apart from that I'm not sure what it adds to the other one. I expect we'd spot it right away if we watched the older one on the new screen, really spotting the limitations in older TV recordings. Whoever would have thought that shows like Auf Wiedersehen Pet would look primitive???

Sunday saw a bit of driving around, yet another trip to the municipal recycling centre, either we're too good at recycling or we generate too much rubbish. Most of it was packing from the new stuff we've bought, it wasn't all beer cans.

Ooh, One step from a Javascript pool table... it's an interesting demo of physical effects on BALLS, all done in JS and DHTML I think. In other footnotes, KISS perfume on the way, and some sick part of me is enjoying that Dick Cheney shot a 78 year old chum, hmm yeah accidentally. Guns don't kill people, etc.

Haircut, dinner reservation, chair, blinds, I'm sure there was another one.

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It's too big!

The telly is in now, and it's massive and mad! Very pleased with it, got a bit nervous about having to set it up ourselves, but all worked smoothly. The built in digital tuner picked up all digital channels smoothly, even with our bent coathanger of an aerial. It's so good to have a decent range of channels now, I wonder if it's too late to cancel our Sky setup..? The motorised stand is way cool too, though I'm sure the novelty will wear off, how much do you need to move your telly around? Maybe in the summer, when it's really hot, we could be swinging it back and forth so it works like a fan.

The Mighty Boosh tonight, looking forward to that a lot, glad my cold is on it's way out.

A mail from www.beerintheevening.com, they have a book coming out, it's all a bit vanity publishing nouvea - the content of the book is farmed from user contributions to the site, so they email everyone who's comment they *might* use to encourage them to buy the book, clever... I probably won't buy the book, but I won't block any of my witty reviews, that sounds fair.

Fancy seeing your name in print? As you'll already know if you subscribe to our newsletter, BITE is teaming up with the Friday Project to produce a book on London pubs as reviewed by the people that know them best -- the people who drink in them!

We're beavering away collating the comments we'd like to see in the finished product, and we're mailing you because some of yours have made the first shortlist. But rather than just go ahead and use them, we'd like to make sure it's OK with you.

All you need to do is follow this link: http://www.beerintheevening.com/gp/pauly/e11fa38435

You'll be able to choose which comments you'd like us to use, and also whether or not you'd like your username displayed next to them in the book.

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The Bungalow

Oh, also seem contracts will be exchanged on the bungalow today! At last! Could be in the money soon... so do I buy a massive telly, pay as much as poss off the mortgage, or just let it all trickle away on furniture and things..?

Seen some quite nice furnture in Canterbury but nothing quite right yet, what are we gonna do?

Off to see about getting something made...

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