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[zoetrope]

A friend is supposed to be coming round this morning to cook me lunch and bring me... Twitch City DVDs! He is notorious for flaking and I warned him not to flake because I really wanted these DVDs and he'd be in trouble if he did. He lives about three hours away and comes to London at weekends. I phoned him this morning at 11:30 to get an ETA and had this conversation:

Me: Morning!
D: *groaaaan*
Me: So how are you?!
D: *groaaaan* *snort* *yaaaawn*
Me: I'm really hungry! When's lunch?
D: ...Ok... let me just...
Me: Hello?
D: Wait, let me just find out the time of the next train from Trent Valley.
Me: Wait-- aren't you in London?
D: No...
Me: But... It'll take you *hours* to get here!
D: I went out here last night.
Me: ...Oh yes?
D: It was pretty weird actually. My mates came round and they said: "Do you want to go see a Pantera cover band--"
Me: Oh my God. The horror!
D: "--In a Youth Club--"
Me: Hahahaha
D: "--And no alcohol allowed so we'll have to smuggle some in."
Me: Wow, sounds like quite a night!
D: But by the time we got there it was ten o' clock and they'd finished!
Me: What kind of band finishes a set before ten?!
D: So we ended up going to a pub, and we got so drunk, and then we went to a house party and I fell asleep on the couch.
Me: *laughs*
D: And when I woke up they'd put porridge down my ear!
Me: Ew!
D: Dry porridge.
Me: Oh.
D: And they'd balanced things on me. Apparently they were playing human Buckaroo!
Me: *laughs harder*
D: So I didn't get home 'til five and fell asleep on the sofa in front of the TV!
Me: Now I feel bad about you coming down! Damn you and your excuses for flaking that make me feel bad!

So it looks like I won't be getting TC DVDs for a while! At least the story was amusing ;)

Yesterday was a nice day, all in all.

I wanted to take some proper photos of the area with my nice camera, and so we went out and divine_miss_j was very kind and let me snap her all day. We started off walking from our flat to the river:



and from there along the Southbank via Borough Market (that's Jane in the pics):





We ate lunch by the Golden Hinde (a replica of the ship that Sir Francis Drake was knighted on) and Nancy's Steps (where Bill Sykes kills her in the book).



A feast from various market stalls, including a pork and stuffing sandwich and vegetarian black bean chili:



Then we ate fresh plums and really really good chocolate fudge:



Then in the evening we went - people that know me, get ready to be surprised - to two nightclubs! And I didn't get to sleep til after three! One of the clubs was such a teen-flashback. Grotty walls, cheep cider and vodka, loud, bad, music and the girl I liked snogging someone else :D

Ah well, c'est la vie.

Comments

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

1. A Pantera cover band without the benefit of alcohol consumption? Shouldn't that be defined as torture?

2. I love the pictures, very like a advert! And I'm greatly amused by the giant turnip banner at the market. And by you and the fudge. *g*

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

1. I would say most definitely!

2. It was funny because when Jane said to me "I'll meet you by the place with the big turnips" I didn't realise she was being literal! And, man, that was some good fudge! We had to go back and get more!