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| Friday, June 5th, 2009 | | 5:49 pm |
Prodigal, etc.
I'll be heading up to Cambridge tomorrow for the weekend. Anyone in the vicinity desiring my company should shout here or by phone. Or possibly just type. It works better over the internet, I've heard. | | Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | | 5:33 pm |
4-day weekend is yes!
Heading up to Cambridge tomorrow for the long weekend. Not much in the way of real plans, so if you're in the area let me know and we'll find a pub or something. Happy Spring festival of your choice to all. | | Friday, February 6th, 2009 | | 3:00 pm |
Bored now ... pub!
Anyone for post-work drinkies central London-ish? Cheshire cheese if no better suggestions. | | Friday, January 30th, 2009 | | 5:31 pm |
No such thing as a ...
Hello everyone. Anyone fancy Sunday lunch chez moi in Clapham? Call or text if you do, as I won't have much internet in the meantime. Number is in a f'locked post a few behind this if you don't already have it. Have a splendid weekend wherever you are. M | | Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 | | 10:17 pm |
Ring out these bells...
En route to my Grandma's for Christmas, back in London with interwebs again on Boxing day. Free on the 27th - anyone for the Pembury or similar? Party with people from Far Away on 28th, up to Cam 29th, coming back New Year's Eve for party in Twickenham. Anyone in Cam want me at any of those points? In the meantime, have a splendid winter festival of your choice, may your halls be decked with booze and folly, and wherever you are, drink my share. | | Monday, December 8th, 2008 | | 2:03 pm |
Christmas time is here, by golly
My Christmas plans are all awry, for big and important reasons. This, combined with the propensity for my family to fly to as many far-flung and exotic destinations as possible, leaves me at a loose end for Christmas. I have a few things planned around that time, but nothing at all for the day itself. Therefore, is anyone throwing a waifs-and-strays Christmas somewhere within striking distance of London that they would like to invite me to? Alternatively, I will have the flat to myself for a few days, so if anyone finds themselves in a similar position and would like to join me, I would be very happy to play the host and provide crashspace. I do make a very good Christmas dinner (where I eat, not where I am eaten, just to clarify). | | Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 | | 9:59 am |
Hank Cinq, or The Rain It Raineth Every Day
Yesterday: thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening for most of the afternoon and early evening. Puddles on the stage. Is my little bit of open air Shakespeare going to get called off? No. Rain stops as we're making our way to the gardens and it turns into a very pleasant, if slightly cool, evening. Not that I'm complaining about the cool under my greatcoat, which seems to have been made from the entirety of Wales' wool production of the 1940s. So once more unto the breach it was, and a jolly time was had by all. Except the French, obviously. I realise somewhat belatedly I haven't plugged this on here, but we're on until Saturday (except Wednesday), and details are here. Anyone turning up will be much appreciated. | | Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | | 11:49 am |
Beer
Off to the Cambridge Beer Festival tomorrow. I guess I'll be around from 12.30ish until early evening or thereabouts, should anyone fancy running into me there. Mmmm beeeeer. | | Friday, March 7th, 2008 | | 9:52 pm |
Oh, what to do?
Hello, O lovely internets. Sorry I haven't been about in a while. The thing is, the corporeal world seems to be taking all my time. However, I do seem to be a bit at a loss for tomorrow. The vague plan was to find some amenable company, and a hostelry showing the rugby, but initial enquiries suggest that rugby fans are in short supply in the Metropolis. So, anyone fancy a pint or several and some nice butch chaps chasing a funny-shaped ball? Or, for that matter, any other suggestions of what I could do with my Saturday, in London or within reasonable driving distance thereof? It would be nice to see some of you whom I don't as often as I should. Adieu, M | | Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 | | 9:06 pm |
Merry Boozemas one and all
Back in the familial bosom, as 'twere, for my first Christmas at home in five years. A touch dull, but the food is adequate and the booze plentiful. Bless my family - I have received no fewer than six shirts and three pairs of trousers today. And some underwear. I hope you're all just as charmed by the whole affair. Heading up to Cambridge tomorrow for a few days, so if any of you in that vicinity need any further excuse for a drink please let me know. I've rather shamefully left my brandy downstairs, so I'd better get back to it before it evaporates. Adieu. Current Music: Wizzard. Bloody Wizzard. | | Thursday, December 6th, 2007 | | 5:47 pm |
Coarseness
Hello all. This is a reminder that my play starts tonight, details earlier in this journal to which I can't be bothered to link. I have bought tickets for some people as follows: Fri 7th: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) atreic +1 Fri 14th: glamwhorebunniSat 15th: wildeabandon +1, kateqp, yvesilenaMost of you owe me money; cash on the night will be ideal. I understand that some others may have bought tickets through other people; if you are coming it would be nice to know when so I can be extra-good for you. If anyone else wants to come now is the time to shout; availability is limited and some nights have sold out. Wish me, um, broken limbs or something. | | Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 | | 2:46 pm |
Treading the (squeaky) boards
As some of you know, I've been keeping myself busy on stage recently. Therefore you are all invited to come and see me in: COARSE ACTING - The Revenge An evening of four short plays celebrating amateur theatre at its worst, presented according to the rules of Michael Green's best-selling work "The Art of Coarse Acting". Present Slaughter Henry the Tenth (Part Seven) A Fish in Her Kettle The Cherry Sisters Shakespeare it ain't (well, mostly) but it is still funny at time of going to press, and we haven't peaked yet. The Mary Wallace Theatre, Twickenham Riverside, TW1 3DU Thursday 6th December - Saturday 15th December. 7.45 p.m. except: Sunday 9th December - 4.00 p.m. Matinees (as well as evening performances) both Saturdays at 3.00 p.m. No performance Wenesday 12th December Tickets can only be purchased by members of the Theatre, so if you want to come, let me know in comments and I'll arrange them. Tickets are £8, except the final Friday and Saturday evening performances, which are £10, and the first Saturday, which is a Gala Performance (I don't know what that means either) and therefore £12. Clear? Additionally, for anyone interested (and I know a couple of you have mentioned that you might be) auditions for the production of Titus Andronicus at the same theatre are coming up. Details are here. Strictly speaking, you need to be an Acting Member to audition, but you'll probably be able to join after the audition if you get a part and not bother if not. | | Friday, August 31st, 2007 | | 4:57 pm |
I aten't ded (but my phone is)
Hello everyone, I'm afraid my phone is a bit dead at the moment. If you have a really pressing need to get hold of me (though I can't for the life of me imagine why) please comment below (screened) and I'll get back to you as soon as I can be arsed. In other news, I'm moving house next week. Huzzah, shiny new place to spend all my money on at Ikea. If anyone was feeling nice to me they could come and help me move all my stuff out of the old place in Archway next Saturday at about one-ish as otherwise I'll be moving big heavy furniture all on my lonesome. Thank you. I'll buy you beer or somethng. And there'll be a housewarming at some point soonish. Yes. Elsewise, I went to see the RSC yesterday. That's Reduced Shakespeare Company, obviously. It's not seen them before and it was excellent, particularly an entirely unexpected roz_mcclure popping up as a very not-one-dimensional-at-all Ophelia. Um, that's kind of all I have right now, chaps. I'll take a leaf out of the RSC's folio and give you a musical interlude until the intermission. wim-o-weh In wim-o-weh the wim-o-weh jungle wim-o-weh the wim-o-weh mighty wim-o-weh jungle wim-o-weh the wim-o-weh lion wim-o-weh sleeps wim-o-weh tonight wim-o-weh ooh wim-o-weh ooh-ee-oo-um-wim-o-weh wim-o-weh wim-o-weh *intermission* | | Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 | | 4:12 pm |
On the road...
Dear Internets, My lovely C and I, along with the also lovely yvesilena will be moving in together in a month and a bit or so, which is rather exciting. On the other hand, it leaves my also also lovely housemates, libellum and glamwhorebunni, with a bit of a housemate shortage. So does anyone want a room in a charming flat in London from sometime in September? I'm probably fairly flexible on just when I need to move out. Here (slight factual errors corrected) is what libellum has to say about it: " ( My lovely housemate strongtrousers is, alas, no more. )I can only say that it's a nice, characterful room in a nice, convenient spot, with nice people. I've been happy there and there will be a twinge of regret when I leave despite the shininess of my new arrangements. Do pass this on to anyone else who might be interested - the last thing I want to do is leave H and J in the lurch. | | Saturday, July 28th, 2007 | | 5:33 pm |
Pubbity-pub
Britannia at the Pembury was a success last week, and much fun was had. vardebedian has written it up better than I can be bothered to. Which begs the question, does anyone fancy joining me at 4ish tomorrow for another game? I'll be in the Pembury anyway, so if no-one wants to commit in advance I'll recruit when I get there. | | Monday, July 16th, 2007 | | 10:37 pm |
Britannia in Londinium?
Ever since I moved to London I have been missing Britannia, a board game that I played in my student days. I have a set, just not the requisite four people and long afternoon to play it. I wonder if some of the regulars or irregulars at the Pembury board games and beer Sunday gatherings might be persuaded to join me for a game this week? The basic premise is of a game of conquest based around the events in Britain from the Roman invasion to the Norman Conquest (just the period I happened to be "studying", in fact). Each player controls a number of nations, who arrive from the sea at designated times, and fight for Victory Points which are weighted towards historical occurrences and ambitions. Here is a site with some more information (much of which is to do with the recent reissue with tweaking, alas). It's good fun, but it does take a good four hours to play through (and only balances at the end). Does anyone fancy meeting me at the Pembury at say, 4 o'clock on Sunday, so as to leave time for some of the other excitements that fine hostelry provides? EDIT: Places for this Sunday have been filled. Since there's a bit of a clamouring from people unable to make it this week, I might just make it a (semi-)regular thing, so nobody gets left out. Aren't I nice? | | Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 | | 6:16 pm |
Booooooooooooooze (mostly of interest to Cambridge people)
I seem to have been neglecting my Cambridge people of late, what with not having been up since Christmas and all that. So I thought, how could I arrange it that I miss as few people as possible in a Cambridge weekend. The answer came in big spangly letters (you'll have to imagine the big and spangly as I don't do html) BEER FESTIVAL It is my intention to sit in the Cambridge Beer Festival from as early as I can make it on Friday 25th until it stops on the Saturday. I would be very surprised and somewhat annoyed not to bump into lots of you there. Let me know if you'll be there and want to see me and I'll make sure I find you. If anyone were to volunteer crashspace for the Friday and Saturday nights to save me falling asleep under a tramp that would be extremely kind and I would repay you in BEER. Big manly boozy bear hugs, M | | Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 | | 8:42 pm |
"Base camp, can you hear me?" "Sure we can, sweetie-pumpkin. Mwah!"
Dear friends list, Have you all gone butch? There's been barely a mention of the marvellous impending camptasm that is Eurovision on here. Surely all eyes should be on what the fuck is going to happen in the post-Lordi era (apparently more transvestites than you can shake a sequinned frock at and weird eastern European folk-trance, apparently, so no change there). And we've got air hostesses! I'd be inviting you all to a party for it if I had one of those tellybox doohickies for the watching of it. Trouble is, I don't. So the big question (other than "why is there Belgian Disco?") is, who (preferably in This London) will grant me a bit of sofa and a far-seeing machine for the purposes of indulging my queenier side? G'wan, I'll bring cocktails! Love and expansive kisses-in-the-vague-vicinity-of-the-chee k, M Current Mood:  camp as christmasCurrent Music: Verka Serdyuchka "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" | | Monday, May 7th, 2007 | | 10:06 pm |
Back from the Very Far North. 1,581 miles at the wheel of my aged jet-powered sofa, but oh so very much worth the effort. Beautiful sunshine all week, entirely deserted pure white sandy beaches (one of which squeaked excitingly when walked on), views to die for and marvellous company. Photos courtesy of the ever snap-happy mostlyacat are here. Being back at the grindstone in the big smoke tomorrow does not appeal in the slightest. | | Thursday, April 26th, 2007 | | 6:15 pm |
We ride North!
Off to Scotland. Back Sunday week. No internet. No mobile reception, will pick up texts every couple of days, so that's the best chance of getting hold of me if by some strange chance you neeeeed to. Bliss. Have a good week. M |
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