Morning!

[hellison]

And how are we all on this rather damp Monday? Good weekends had?
I had a weekend of much socialising, starting with the fun of finally getting post-work pints on a Friday, which was *meant* to be 'just one or two' and ended up, not surprisingly, being 'several'. Fun tho ;)

Saturday began in very civilised fashion with Lunch with The Girls, which quite quickly turned into More Wine Please! There was a quick break for myself and _unhurt_ when we were irresistably lured into a bookshop by big signs saying HALF PRICE SALE, despite E.'s plaintive cry from outside of 'But I want to drink cocktails!' - I found this, which made me all Gaiman fangirly, but not as fangirly as unhurt with her ordering obscure Canadian Scripts or similar :p
Then followed working our way through the cocktail menu in Madisons (which, for the record, isn't great at cocktails. Didn't stop us drinking them tho), until hunger struck again, so we trailed off to the nearest resturant to stuff our faces, drink More Wine Please! and, um, eat our handbags (partially documented in photos by _unhurt_ here), for reasons which I really can't quite recall just now.

However I was very sensibly home by 10, where I not-so-sensibly tried mudding while watching The 13th Warrior and drinking cider, leading to all sorts of dying-related hijinks, followed by Crashy bat-loss fun in the terrains, all wrapped up in drunken multi-tell confusion from littlebluefish and others. Good times ;)


Sunday was good tho. Lovely sunny day, surprising lack of drink-related agony, tho sleeping til lunchtime probably helped there. Went to check on Ziggy in her summer fields, where she is busy getting fat and lazy, then home to help in The Great Garage Clearance.
However it turns out the the Next-door Neighbour wants to buy Mum's house and has said he will clear the garage and anything else out, and that there's no hurry at all and she can take all the time she likes to move. Which is all great news and meant that instead of hauling box after box of crap out, we got to just hoke around and see what was in there, leading to me discovering a big box of all the Really Old 2000ADs which I thought had been thrown out years ago, yay!
Then we went and sat in the sun and it was good.
I was supposed to be going to see Davey play again last night, but as the hangover bizarrely gradually worsened throughout the day, I decided to give this a miss and just go home instead. Even had a (relatively) early night! Must be getting old...



This morning, still having Database Issues in work (ie they 'upgraded' me to win2003 when I was off last week, leading to the Access97 database my entire job revolves around no longer working), haven't even got any filing left to, hence the rather massive post of rambling massivness.
Am now going to go look up fancy spa-type hotels in London as I fancy a weekend away. Anyone for pints mid-June or so?

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[tiquetoque.livejournal.com]

Can't, I'll be in belfast.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

That's just be weekdays tho, not teh weekend. Any idea when yet?

[tiquetoque.livejournal.com]

12th-23rd June.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Yay! Pints some evening then? or just lazing on sofa watching endless dvds?

[tiquetoque.livejournal.com]

either or :D although it'll be the usual shitty situation with parking, methinks.

The sunday nights should be fine though :D maybe even the friday nights. And pints/cinema in town during the week?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

All sounds good - bound to be something decent in the cinema then.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

MORNING! I was in Tullamore yesterday at a Conference.
I am steeling myself to revisit Friday's postage. Eek.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

saturday afternoon has given me a new catchphrase: "MY LOVELY PAUL!" repeated every five minutes with added TMI re: the skills of said LOVELY PAUL.

hellison, do you remember speaking soflty (ahahahHA!) at the table in scalinis? something about PORN that, um, i don't think the other people near us really wanted to hear? *g*

hellison snorted out loud with laughter as i tried to explain to the nice man in no alibis what i was looking for. and he found it! the out of print, like gold-dust, amazon lie about it as they don't in fact have any copies hard core roadshow! (unless it doesn't ship, when i will cry) though, okay, it may be that i have rather less interest in the screenwriting process and rather more in the anecdotes about hugh and callum than might usually be the case. *is sad*

i was also hangover-free on sunday, but in my case remained that way all day. woo! and i cleaned the house. there was dusting. on the other hand, i did sit up till 2am with the cava i had forgotten was in the fridge last night, so a bit sleepy today.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

adds: that book link doesn't contain the most important piece of information: "inspired by an alice cooper song"!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Will you STOP with the reminding me about the Logue TMI, i have to sit and look at him all day! Were we talking about porn? It's all a little hazy ;p

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

*slurp slurp slurp*

*flees*

[lady-lykaina.livejournal.com]

I was just reading though this when I should be working and suddenly I do not feel so lonely. Someone else with a CKR obsession and who knows what HCL is! Hurrah. I have a copy of Hard Core Roadshow, I purchased many moons ago - which I of course bought for the insights on the film making process **cough** I hope you manage to get hold of it :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

One Of Us! One Of Us!

excuse me, i have to do a small dance of glee (in the office, no less!)

eee, and i see you're on ckr_actorfic. (hellison is dubious about the RPF, but i am converting her, one link at a time. she will fall! i used to wonder what the appeal was myself, but then suddenly half of lj was chaining callum to fences and that was it - sold! and, um, joining in.)

[lady-lykaina.livejournal.com]

Mmmm - I am not quite sure of the appeal of this sort of thing as yet - but many other people are and I am always willing to be converted!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

oops. note to self: do not announce morally dubious enthusiasms with such glee in future. ;)

but we are in agreement that callum is really very (very) attractive, right? which is the important thing!

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

W-w-we're not talking about the Logue are we?
(Is it sung to the tune of my lovely horse?) OH I'm going to write a song!
Myy lovely Logueee alalalla

what pron was hellison talking about? It can't be as bad as Hellison SHOUTING VERY LOUDLY ABOUT LAP DANCING, TIME MACHINES AND MY SISTER'S TITS in the presence of prospective in-laws and allied Warners !!!!!!!!!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Hey the Warners were doing it too! Well, not the lap dancing bit ;p

And yes, My Lovely Logue *shudders*

[lady-lykaina.livejournal.com]

Wow - a hard-drinking weekend! Excellent. I spent the weekend tracking down some Gaiman items - I seem to have been very slow on the uptake in collecting - which is stange considering Good Omens is my favourite book ever. I will catch up however!! More money spent on books - ho hum!

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Heh it was a bit - and would have been more so if I hadn't chickened out of going to the gig last night! Definitely getting old (and lazy).

The Last Temptation was a real Find, I'd never even heard of it and there it was, all shiny and lovely and based on an Alice Cooper song. How could I resist?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

just noticed this: E.'s plaintive cry from outside of 'But I want to drink cocktails!'

plaintive bellow, more like!

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Pints!

Plus bap?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Yay picnic! We should totally that again. Tho maybe with slightly less salad ;p

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Like, maybe, none? :P

Or just less than 6 people shopping, and picking up stuff for 12 without seeing what everyone else got?

By the way, I might be (kind of) in your neck of the woods[1] if I go to a juggling thingy with reuss in July. If you're not already booked up, I could come visit :)


[1] - Well, it's somewhere in the south end of the RoI, but I'm guessing there are (kind of) domestic flights or, failing that, trains.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Ooh do! That would be lovely ;) There are trains, flights possibly less so, unless you're in Cork! Or we could meet in the middle somewhere.

but we have to have SOME salad, otherwise how will we get the men?

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Do you think they'd take grass? That's green and leafy.

I'll look at getting around and Stuff closer to the time :)