Work continues on trying to fix the internet. Optus guys were very nice and thought it might be an issue with the modem. Could be as simple as restarting the modem. Crossed are my fingers until I get home.
What a weekend!
Had a lovely Friday.
Met Cecily in Degraves St in the city after work and had some lovely coffee and cake.
For those who havent been there, its an alley thats full of cafe after cafe with their tables spilling out onto the street and an assortment of "witches hat" heaters making and pretty lights turning giving it a pretty, warm glow. The coffee was delicious and the slices of cake were enormous. We got a strawberry cheesecake and a sticky date pudding - the best of summer and winter!
After we had supped, we wandered through the city arm in arm to a bar caled The Golden Monkey in Hardware Lane. We were meeting Pip, a lovely girl who is going through tough times, there for her birthday. It was an excellent bar. Done up like the chinese resteraunts you see in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but single level and much darker. The party took place on a raised platform from which you can peer through the screens and watch everyone drinking and dining (the bar served what it called "Asian Tapas" - kind of like a mix of entries from various oriental genres). They had waiters which was nice, as they'd come and find oyu with your food and drinks and the bill came inside an abacus. This scared us at first as we thought you had to guess how much it was from what was on the abacus, but then we found the slip of paper underneath and were both relieved and a little disappointed.
It was a packed night. The whole squad turned out. Pretty much everyone who'd ever met Pip seemd to have turned up to celebrate her birthday. It was people overload for me, as many of them I had not seen for months and had a lot of catching up to do, and besides which I was just comning off a very hermetic phase, so I wasn't really used to talking. Fortunately the first glass of wine tasted like Christmas and had a kick like Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace thought you didn't like cats, so I got a leeetle tipsy and then relaxed a bit. Had a lot of fun, though a misunderstanding on my part and Cecily's 'humour the crazy person' reaction to a very pushy and a touch annoying Pia, meant that instead of going for chips at 'Lord of the Fries' which I think was a brilliant stroke by Cecily, we ended up skipping in the direction of a kebab shop. Still we skipped and passers by sang 'We're off to see the Wizard'. And we got a cab very quickly - and a hamberger at the other end for a very hungry Is. So all was well.
Wow that was just Friday.
Saturday we were hung over and did as little as possible. It was lovely! We had a nice bath together towards the end of the night and make a big to do list.
Sunday we went shopping in Ikea and Freedom for a new bed and mattress. We found a very sexy bed in Freedom (good tie on points ;-P) and a lovely mattress. Cash says we can only get the mattress for now but at least we know its there. Even Ikea was kinda fun and we managed to avoid going to the warehouse downstairs. I wonder if Ikea will cotton on to the fact that people are figuring out how to leave their store. maybe next time we go they'll make us close our eyes and spin round ten times to kill any sense of direction. (I'm convinced their stores are designed by the people who made "The Prisoner")
Noticed that the cafe outside Freedom doesnt' look like much but is really nice! The staff are lovely, the coffee's pretty good, the cakes are quite yummy and they do a Devonshire tea complete with hot scones and - in our case - big pots of Earl Grey tea which is a great way to recover from furniture shopping.
Finished off with dinner at mum and dad's which is always lovely, especially seeing they don't feel obliged to run through a list of 'have you done this yet's anymore.
Lovely roast and chocolatey deserts.
Hurrah!
anyway, my brain is tired now.
Ciao.
What a weekend!
Had a lovely Friday.
Met Cecily in Degraves St in the city after work and had some lovely coffee and cake.
For those who havent been there, its an alley thats full of cafe after cafe with their tables spilling out onto the street and an assortment of "witches hat" heaters making and pretty lights turning giving it a pretty, warm glow. The coffee was delicious and the slices of cake were enormous. We got a strawberry cheesecake and a sticky date pudding - the best of summer and winter!
After we had supped, we wandered through the city arm in arm to a bar caled The Golden Monkey in Hardware Lane. We were meeting Pip, a lovely girl who is going through tough times, there for her birthday. It was an excellent bar. Done up like the chinese resteraunts you see in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, but single level and much darker. The party took place on a raised platform from which you can peer through the screens and watch everyone drinking and dining (the bar served what it called "Asian Tapas" - kind of like a mix of entries from various oriental genres). They had waiters which was nice, as they'd come and find oyu with your food and drinks and the bill came inside an abacus. This scared us at first as we thought you had to guess how much it was from what was on the abacus, but then we found the slip of paper underneath and were both relieved and a little disappointed.
It was a packed night. The whole squad turned out. Pretty much everyone who'd ever met Pip seemd to have turned up to celebrate her birthday. It was people overload for me, as many of them I had not seen for months and had a lot of catching up to do, and besides which I was just comning off a very hermetic phase, so I wasn't really used to talking. Fortunately the first glass of wine tasted like Christmas and had a kick like Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace thought you didn't like cats, so I got a leeetle tipsy and then relaxed a bit. Had a lot of fun, though a misunderstanding on my part and Cecily's 'humour the crazy person' reaction to a very pushy and a touch annoying Pia, meant that instead of going for chips at 'Lord of the Fries' which I think was a brilliant stroke by Cecily, we ended up skipping in the direction of a kebab shop. Still we skipped and passers by sang 'We're off to see the Wizard'. And we got a cab very quickly - and a hamberger at the other end for a very hungry Is. So all was well.
Wow that was just Friday.
Saturday we were hung over and did as little as possible. It was lovely! We had a nice bath together towards the end of the night and make a big to do list.
Sunday we went shopping in Ikea and Freedom for a new bed and mattress. We found a very sexy bed in Freedom (good tie on points ;-P) and a lovely mattress. Cash says we can only get the mattress for now but at least we know its there. Even Ikea was kinda fun and we managed to avoid going to the warehouse downstairs. I wonder if Ikea will cotton on to the fact that people are figuring out how to leave their store. maybe next time we go they'll make us close our eyes and spin round ten times to kill any sense of direction. (I'm convinced their stores are designed by the people who made "The Prisoner")
Noticed that the cafe outside Freedom doesnt' look like much but is really nice! The staff are lovely, the coffee's pretty good, the cakes are quite yummy and they do a Devonshire tea complete with hot scones and - in our case - big pots of Earl Grey tea which is a great way to recover from furniture shopping.
Finished off with dinner at mum and dad's which is always lovely, especially seeing they don't feel obliged to run through a list of 'have you done this yet's anymore.
Lovely roast and chocolatey deserts.
Hurrah!
anyway, my brain is tired now.
Ciao.