under another sun

Yippee! Friday! Yippee. A lovely day arriving like a spiritual spring. Able to listen to my iPod again as they fixed the problem. Lorraine has put me in touch with a good plumber, and my heating will hopefully be sorted out on Monday. Best of all, by a long chalk, is that Mum's test results have come through and are good. Work itself quite good fun, enjoyed being filmed on my opinions about creative work for charities and got positive feedback from my stint, so again left on a good footing. Felt like doing snoopy style skips leaving Hammersmith. Went straight from work with Ed, and scooted down to Strand on the Green to the Crown and Anchor where Eva and Matty had arranged a surprise 40th birthday party for Craig. Ed being Craig's old art director. An excellent sunny evening, with the sun sparkling on the river outside. Then lots beers and catching up with folks I'd not seen for a while, and meeting some nice new people. Left with First Matie and we decided on a cheeky ABF ...

A night with the day trippers Tremendously enjoyable day, which I started rather sluggishly coughing and explaining to Lorraine just how wussy I felt. However there is a new cure in town: alcohol taken liberally with your mates. The mates in question were Kate, Matty, Craig and his new girlfriend Eva, who had come down from London. Lorraine and I met up with them in the Battle of Trafalgar and then as every last one of them had a camera, we took them down to the seafront where there was a good deal of semi-comical snappage. There was a brisk wind, and so we were soon compelled to find another pub, and we had several drinks in fine Brighton boozers such as The Cricketers, and The Caxton and one or two others. Sensibly we broke off for bags full of fish and chips which we ate with wooden forks in the dark by the sea. This is where Tash, the very nice Matty's very nice sister, and Dunc her boyfriend found us. In the Cricketers Nick, an old pal of Katie's who I'd met a few tim...