Archive for August, 2004

The End

Friday, August 13th, 2004

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The excesses of last night came back and bit me this morning. Feeling sick, I found it very difficult to eat any breakfast,and even Paul felt ill, so between us, in spite of our early start and our good […]

Albufeira

Monday, August 9th, 2004

Well, it may have spent this morning raining, but it’s still hot. We’ve retreated to Albufera, which is like a Portuguese version of Southend, only with more Germans and sea food. We have a very underpowered car, that delights in making fools of ourselves in heavy traffic by stalling at the first available opportunity, a […]

Goodbye Mark (again)

Friday, August 6th, 2004

Things got very messy last night. They almost got messier around 3am as I sat in the bathroom wondering whether or not it would be a good time to be sick.
It was Mark’s leaving do - the second of his I’ve attended in the last year - so we all bundled down to La Perla […]

It’s going to be…

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

…parky in London today.

No tengo Dolares

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

London is rubbish in the weather. Any weather. Today it was almost unbearably hot - I took a bus instead of a tube - and the Standard is talking about a pall of smog hanging over the city. Certainly it all seems very grey.
Yesterday, though - the one day of the week I really needed […]

Brixton birthday

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

Emilie Ms will be 26 tomorrow, so happy birthday to her. Monday is a crap night for parties, though, so she threw it last night, and dragged us into deepest Brixton with the promise of music, laughter and gin.
I don’t know why Brixton has a bad reputation. I’ve only been once before, admittedly, but it […]