Sunday, November 26, 2006
You beauties
A client kindly invoted me along to Twickenham to watch the England vs SA game on Saturday... what a pleasure!Crammed onto a train at Waterloo at 11h30 and headed out to the wilds of south west London.. the doors got jammed by the usual undead at Clapham Junction, milling around trying to force their way on to an already overcrowded train so that the doors couldn't close. Eejits.
Anyhoo, by the time I got to the pub where I was meeting them, the streets were packed with both England & SA fans. Unsuprisingly, the pub was jampacked, even the beer garden, despite the dire looking weather. I met up with my host, and was handed the first of many, many pints before I'd even had a chance to unzip my jacket. After 3 pints and a burger we headed off to the stadium, stopping en route to pick up some droewors and a ref-mike -an ingenious little device that lets you hear everything the ref's saying on the field! very 007.
Oh, and another pint. Walking half a mile is thirsty work. We eventually find the correct gate and ambled in. Since we were early, we stopped at one of the in-house bar areas and had a couple of pints and a fiery curried pancake thing, which was actually quite good.
I have to say, I had some serious doubts about what the feck the Bokke thought they were doing for the first 20 minutes of the first half... they were handing over penalties like it was going out of fashion, but then they seemed to stabilise and things got interesting.
Half time came around too quickly, and we squeezed our way back to the bar for some refills.. we were even quick enough to be seated before the players came out for the second half.
I'm quite chuffed to have been there to see SA break their dry spell at Twickers.
Afterwards, of course, we made our way back down to the bar to dissect England's abysmal performance, giving me a chance to be annoyingly smug. After a few pints we decided that it was getting a bit chilly in the open air bar and migrated back to the pub to have a couple for the road/ train.. stopped off at Waterloo to grab some spicy noodles & a pick me up Asahi from Ned's before I thanked them for a cracking day out and stumbled up the escalators to Waterloo East and my train home.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
woe is me
Ach, I don't know what's happened. I was streaking along with my Nanowrimo project, cracked the 10,000 word barrier and then *pHuT*. My brain-rockets died. No more thrillpower, no more mojo.I sit here looking at the cursor, willing my fingers to start tapping some plastic but nada is happening. I've got the ideas and the storyline, but there's been a bit of a signal failure between Brain Central and the Finger Exchange.
So annoying.. I won't be able to live with her gloatiness if the missus wins our bet.
(whoever loses the word count challenge has to take the other out for dinner at a restaurant of their choosing)
Will try again tomorrow. Grrr. Stupid hands.
Monday, November 13, 2006
stupid radioFunny how if something breaks, something else will break in sympathy too.
The CD player in the car has been a bit wonky for quite a while... the led display hasn't really worked since I accidentally dropped the fascia unit in the loo about 18 months ago (I dropped a coin and bent over to pick it up, forgetting the radio was in my breast pocket. The only kindness was that I'd already flushed)... last week the clips at the back gave up the ghost and it kept popping out everytime the car went over a bump ...which in London means it fell out constantly.
Our kettle has suffered a similar fate. No, I didn't drop it in the loo. When I first bought it I thought it was quite cool ,with its posh lid that opened at the touch of a button. However. The operation of the aforementioned lid, and thereby the entire kettle, was dependant on the structural integrity of one tiny plastic widget/ hinge thingy about the thickness of onion skin. Naturally, the widget broke. Completely. I tried to fill the kettle and suddenly there was broken plastic, a tiny screw and a spring in my washup.
Sigh.
Hello Comet and Halfords, goodbye budget.
Cleverly, we opted to pay one of the commoners at Halfords to install the radio, since I admit I'm not really up to par when it comes to figuring which of the 50 wires taped together under the dashboard does what. The chap was quite efficient, I have to admit- he cleaned up the rats nest of wires in record time and got everything working quite quickly. And as a bonus, he didn't try get all buddy-buddy and chat to me while I sat in the opposite seat, studiously trying to a) feign interest in what he was doing and b) make it seem like I really wasn't only sitting there to make sure he didn't steal anything.
At least I can now make myself a cup of tea to console myself when I work out the bills this month, and can listen to mp3's in the car when I'm on my way to the soup kitchen to steal food.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Rapidly, he wrote4035 words so far :)
*whip crack went his whippy tail*
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Keyboards away!
I've decided to force myself into doing something with my PC that doesn't involve me getting the stuffing shot out of me on BF2.
So I've joined the missus and signed up for NanoWrimo. It's an international contest (of sorts), the goal being to write at least 50,000 words of a story between 1-30 November... doesn't neccesarily sound like much, but that equates to having to churn out about 1,700 words a day (4 standard-spaced pages).
Which is a lot if you've been creatively lazy for as long as I have.. but! so far so good. Despite spending some time in front of the telly tonight (watching Tristan & Isolde- better than average) I have gotten off to a good start with 1,895 words on my scorecard :)
(And no, I haven't succumbed to the temptation of giving all my characters really bad stutters.)
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