A ‘hen’ party makes it sound quite dull doesn’t it? Like a load of chickens sitting around knitting

Last weekend was the hen do in London for my mate getting wed in too weeks; although I agree with her that ‘bachelorette’ sounds a bit more… exciting. We started off with a trip round the Tate Britain to the the Peter Doig exhibition. It was pretty good. I quite liked the paintings which show white modernist buildings through dark forests and swamps, but I was less keep on the figures. I could have done ‘um. 

Then we got some lunch and looked over the river at MI5 – if it’s so damn secret why do they have a headquarters you can see from space? – then across to the West End for Avenue Q. Weird enough – Sesame Street but in a way that’ll fuck up your childhood memories, but very funny if you can get past the puppet sex. Then dinner at the Texas embassy. Interesting fact I got from the back of the menu; the original Texas embassy (as in the embassy for the real country of Texas) was founded in a wine vault in London. Sounds about right doesn’t it?

It wasn’t a pissed hen do *ahem* I mean Bachelorette party, but it was fun and I got to see a load more of London. We went to this little cafe in Covent Garden on Sunday called Coffee, Cake and Kink (http://www.coffeeckeandkink.com – warning; don’t go here if you don’t like leather and drawings of unnaturally large male anatomy). That says it all really. Nice cafe though.

 

 

 

MacBookTastic

It’s white. It’s beautiful. It’ll be out of date in 6 months. Such is my gorgeous new MacBook, on which I am typing right now. This should mark a new era of internet activity for me. Instead of needing five bits of hardware and bloody Windows Movie Maker to post to YouTube, here I will be able to produce something of infinitely better quality in a few clicks. It’s a lovely lovely thing that has severely depleted my finances. But bugger it. It’s pretty.

In other news, I’ve learnt to solder at work. Thats right; I can attach one bit of metal to another bit of metal. I’m officially a fire hazard.

I’ve been seeing the photographer for nearly a month and liking him more every day. This does not bode well for internet activity of the summer, but makes me very happy.

I’ve decided I’m absolutely going to Reading Festival. Rage Against the Machine, The Killers, Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, Bloc Party, Tenacious D, We Are Scientists, Slipknot, Avenge Sevenfold, Pendulum…. WHO could not go for a line-up like that? Especially when they already bought there ticket at a reduced price? I might not camp, but I’m going; and it’s going to be incredible. I’m especially pleased that the organisers have brought back metal Sunday; it’s like classic Reading.

So it looks like a vintage summer, which I feel about ready for after the last year… see you all there. Especially those I missed at Nerifest on Saturday. Have I mentioned how sick I am that I couldn’t go?

 

I’m such an internet sherker

Yeah I’m still just not putting the effort in at all am I? It’s just busyness guys. I’m in Bristol most weekends now, and between seeing people and proof listening/ freelancing, I’ve not got many evenings free either. I only managed to put so much effort in to stuff over the winter as I didn’t have much else to be getting on with.

I can’t feel too sorry about not being around so much, as life is so good. Getting on really, really well with the new bloke, and I’m earning enough now to have ordered my… wait for it… MACBOOK! WOOO! 250GB hard drive, 2GB Ram which I’ll upgrade myself to 4, and 2.4 Ghz processor, DVD burner… oooo I can’t wait! It’s coming next week. Expect many videos of me going “woo look what I can do! I love Macs.”

Unti then I’m going to continue to be lazy out of necessity ie I need to make the money to pay for more beautiful new toy. But I won’t disapear completely. Some people won’t let me (dammit you stickam spammers…)